In this study, integrated pretreatments and aerobic digestion processes were investigated in order to provide a feasible alternative that can achieve effective sludge reduction. An ozone treatment in the presence of ionic manganese, a catalyst, increased the sludge reduction ratio three times higher than that of a single ozonation, presumably due to an increase in OH radical production. The ozone treatment yielded the effective sludge reduction ratio with an increasing ozone dosage, and an effective dosage of the catalyst was found to be 4 mg-Mn/g-TS. When a mechanical pretreatment and an ozone/catalyst were applied in a series, the integrated process, even at a half mechanical intensity and a half level of ozone dosage, showed higher and faster sludge reduction than each single process did. In addition, the integrated pretreatment process showed the highest dewaterability of the treated sludges. A ratio of sludge cake generation, which was newly introduced to quantify overall performance of sludge treatment processes, showed that the integrated pretreatment followed by the aerobic digestion yielded approximately a half of the sludge cake volume compared to the single aerobic digestion. Therefore, the integrated pretreatment can be a feasible method for the effective reduction of total suspended solid and the final volume.
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April 01 2006
Characteristics of sludge reduction in an integrated pretreatment and aerobic digestion process
S. Hwang;
*College of Environment and Applied Chemistry, Kyung Hee University, Yongin, Korea, 449-701
E-mail: sjhwang@khu.ac.kr
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H. Jang;
H. Jang
*College of Environment and Applied Chemistry, Kyung Hee University, Yongin, Korea, 449-701
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M. Lee;
M. Lee
*College of Environment and Applied Chemistry, Kyung Hee University, Yongin, Korea, 449-701
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J. Song;
J. Song
**Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Sejong University, Seoul, Korea, 143-747
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S. Kim
S. Kim
***En3 Co. Ltd, 267-2 Nonhyun-Dong Kangnam-Ku, Seoul, Korea, 135-010
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Water Sci Technol (2006) 53 (7): 235–242.
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S. Hwang, H. Jang, M. Lee, J. Song, S. Kim; Characteristics of sludge reduction in an integrated pretreatment and aerobic digestion process. Water Sci Technol 1 April 2006; 53 (7): 235–242. doi: https://doi.org/10.2166/wst.2006.228
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