The reduction of biological excess sludge production using ozone is a well-known technology and is applied in several full-scale plants around the world. Nevertheless, optimisation of the process is not yet adequately documented in the literature. Operational parameters are usually chosen by assuming a direct proportionality between ozone dose and excess sludge reduction. This paper investigates the role of ozone concentration on process efficiency and demonstrates the (non-linear) inverse relationship between ozone dose and specific particulate chemical oxygen demand solubilisation in plug-flow contact reactors. The influence of total suspended solids concentration is also studied and described. No short-term lethal effects on heterotrophic biomass have been observed.
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October 24 2014
A full-scale plug-flow reactor for biological sludge ozonation
Davide Gardoni;
Davide Gardoni
1Politecnico di Milano, DICA – Environmental Section, Piazza Leonardo da Vinci, 32. 20133 Milano, Italy
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Elena Ficara;
Elena Ficara
1Politecnico di Milano, DICA – Environmental Section, Piazza Leonardo da Vinci, 32. 20133 Milano, Italy
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Pompilio Vergine;
Pompilio Vergine
1Politecnico di Milano, DICA – Environmental Section, Piazza Leonardo da Vinci, 32. 20133 Milano, Italy
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Roberto Canziani
1Politecnico di Milano, DICA – Environmental Section, Piazza Leonardo da Vinci, 32. 20133 Milano, Italy
E-mail: roberto.canziani@polimi.it
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Water Sci Technol (2015) 71 (4): 560–565.
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Received:
July 16 2014
Accepted:
October 13 2014
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Davide Gardoni, Elena Ficara, Pompilio Vergine, Roberto Canziani; A full-scale plug-flow reactor for biological sludge ozonation. Water Sci Technol 1 February 2015; 71 (4): 560–565. doi: https://doi.org/10.2166/wst.2014.432
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