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Recovering the Energy Potential of Sewage as Approach to Energy Self-Sufficient Sewage Treatment (하수처리장 에너지 자립화를 위한 하수 에너지 잠재력 회수 기술)

  • Bae, Hyokwan
    • Journal of Korean Society on Water Environment
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    • v.34 no.1
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    • pp.121-131
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    • 2018
  • Domestic sewage treatment plants (STPs) consume about 0.5 % of total electric energy produced annually, which is equivalent to 207.7 billion Korean won per year. To minimize the energy consumption and as a way of mitigating the depletion of energy sources, the sewage treatment strategy should be improved to the level of "energy positive". The core processes for the energy positive sewage treatment include A-stage for energy recovery and B-stage for energy-efficient nitrogen removal. The integrated process is known as the A/B-process. In A-stage, chemically enhanced primary treatment (CEPT) or high rate activated sludge (HRAS) processes can be utilized by modifying the primary settling in the first stage of sewage treatment. CEPT utilizes chemical coagulation and flocculation, while HRAS applies returned activated sludge for the efficient recovery of organic contents. The two processes showed organic recovery efficiencies ranging from 60 to 70 %. At a given recovery efficiency of 80 %, 17.3 % of energy potential ($1,398kJ/m^3$) is recovered through the anaerobic digestion and combustion of methane. Besides, anaerobic membrane bioreactor (AnMBR) can recover 85% of organic contents and generate $1,580kJ/m^3$ from the sewage. The recovered energy is equal to the amount of energy consumption by sewage treatment equipped with anaerobic ammonium oxidation (ANAMMOX)-based B-stage, $810{\sim}1,620kJ/m^3$. Therefore, it is possible to upgrade STPs as efficient as energy neutral. However, additional novel technologies, such as, fuel cell and co-digestion, should be applied to achieve "energy positive" sewage treatment.

Update Application of Membrane Technology in Water Environment

  • Okazak, Minoru;Nishida, Takaharu
    • Proceedings of the Membrane Society of Korea Conference
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    • 1998.06a
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    • pp.25-48
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    • 1998
  • Current topics related to membrane technology under the recent water environment are as follows: - Cryptosporidum Outbreak - Integrity Control System - Water re-use - Recycle Society - Biotreatment and Membrane - Slurry or Sludge Treatment I would like to introduce the actual examples regarding water re-use. mainly on the above 5 topics.

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Reduction and Stabilization of Sewage Sludge by Ozonation (오존을 이용한 하수슬러지의 감량화와 안정화)

  • Lee, Chang-geun;Hwang, Eun-ju;Kang, Seong-jae;Bin, Jung-in;Lee, Byung-hun
    • Journal of Korean Society on Water Environment
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    • v.20 no.3
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    • pp.290-295
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    • 2004
  • In this study, ozone was adopted for the reduction and stabilization of waste sludge from the municipal sewage treatment plant. The waste sludge used in the experiments was primary sludge, excess sludge and a mixture of the two. The sludge cells and flocs were disrupted by ozonation resulting in the reduction of TSS and VSS concentrations. In the case of the primary sludge with a concentration of 20 gTS/L, the TSS and VSS concentrations were reduced 28%, 33% and the TCOD concentration was reduced 20% respectively. The consumption of ozone was $0.18gO_3/gSS$. In the case of the excess sludge with a concentration of 7.5 gTS/L, the TSS and VSS concentrations were reduced 37%, 41%, and the TCOD concentration was reduced 19% respectively. The consumption of ozone was $0.33gO_3/gSS$. In the case of the mixed sludge of 9.3 gTS/L, the TSS and VSS concentrations were reduced by 45%, 53%, and the TCOD was reduced 26% respectively. The desirable consumption of ozone was $0.27gO_3/gSS$. As ozonation proceeded, the level of SCOD increased due to the release of intracellular materials. However TCOD was reduced due to mineralization resulting from the transformation of organic materials to inorganic materials.

A Study on the Development Trends of Wastewater Sludge Treatment Technology (하·폐수 슬러지 처리기술의 개발 동향에 관한 연구)

  • Lee, Chaeyoung;Chung, Woojin;Kim, Jitae
    • Journal of the Korean GEO-environmental Society
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    • v.17 no.8
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    • pp.5-15
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    • 2016
  • As the increase of domestic sewage treatment plant and reinforcement of the standard of effluent water quality continues, the volumes of sewage sludge are consistently increasing. Existing treatment of sewage sludge, such as incineration and ocean dumping has been prohibited because of air pollution and prohibitions towards ocean dumping, and in turn, recycling and energy recovery from waste methods have being studied recently. However, the lack of technical level and systematic analyses of application technique are problems, that future analysis of such relative technique would be required. The present study has been investigated as follows, management technique of sludge, patent on refuse-derived fuel and increase biogas production and utilizable technology, trend of research paper. Furthermore, research development from five developed nations (Korea, Japan, China, United States, and United Kingdom), domestic and foreign have been investigated and analyzed by section. In this study, the future technical field which is required for effective management of sludge has been suggested.

Effect of Water Treatment Sludge on Growth of Rice Seedling (수도 유묘생장에 미치는 정수장슬러지 처리효과)

  • Lee, In-Bog;Lim, Jae-Shin;Chang, Ki-Woon
    • Korean Journal of Environmental Agriculture
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    • v.25 no.4
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    • pp.382-385
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    • 2006
  • To know the effect of water treatment sludge (WTS) as a rice seedling culture soil, rice seeds are sown, germinated and grown on the culture soils mixed with different ratios of WTS to sand (100:0, 50:50, 30:70, respectively), and their growth effects was compared to that of control, commercial culture soil. When WTS is used as a culture soil for rice, the length and weight of the top part of rice seedling somewhat decreased than those of control treatment while their root length and weight in all WTS treatments significantly increased. Although phosphorus and potassium uptake of rice seedling in WTS treatments was slightly decreased, WTS treatment showed to develop root growth which is necessary in the seedling stage of all plane. Such a stimulatory effect on root growth of rice seedling was significant in the mixture ratio of 50% WTS to 50% sand.

Treatment Characteristics of Rapid filtration Process treating Secondary Clarifier Effluent for Wastewater Reuse (처리수 재이용을 위한 최종침전지 유출수의 급속여과공정 처리특성)

  • Han, Dong-U
    • Journal of Korea Water Resources Association
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    • v.35 no.2
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    • pp.213-220
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    • 2002
  • This reserch was focused upon experimental study for wastewater reuse and conducted to evaluate optimum operating conditions of rapid filtration process such as filter flow rate, filtration time and backwashing condition for reuse of secondary-treated effluent using the pilot plant installed in real wastewater treatment plant. Also, the experiment on treatment char-acteristics of coagulant-added activated sludge process was performed to compare with activated sludge succeeded to rapid filtration. As the filtration velocity was 100m/day, the filtration time of the rapid filter connected with activated sludge system was revealed to 40 hours. Backwashing of filter was conducted by water wash and air scour. The optimum backwashing time and backwash flow rate were 10min and 10LPM, respectively. The quantity of backwashing water of the rapid filter was about 2% of total treated water.

Survey of the Secondary Effluents from Municipal Wastewater Treatment Plants in Korea (우리나라 하수처리장 방류수 수질현황 및 특성)

  • Kim, Youngchul;An, Ik-Sung;Kang, Min-Gi
    • Journal of Korean Society on Water Environment
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    • v.21 no.2
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    • pp.158-168
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    • 2005
  • In this study, the discharging effluents from have been 9 municipal wastewater treatment plants surveyed for 1 year-period. Statistics including probability distribution, cumulative occurrence concentration and other statistical parameters were presented. In addition, treatment performance and its stability were also discussed. Most of the plants, have an operational problem of high soluble organic content in the secondary effluent which may be associated with the integrated treatment of human and livestock manures. Nitrogen concentration in the effluents were usually higher during the period of summer and winter. It was found that this is mainly due to lack of the proper C/N ratio during the summer, or/and the effects of low temperature and less dilution by dry weather during the winter. Phosphorus concentration is sharply increased in June. Discussion with plant operators told that it is due to the dissolution of phosphate from the sludge accumulated in the primary settling tanks from the early spring to june. During this period, usually, sludge treatment line is highly overloaded with flush-outs of the sediments also stored in the bottom of combined sewer due to the low flow during winter season. Most of the plants can meet new effluent discharge limits of the nitrogen and phosphorus, and total coliform without further treatment.

Development of Inorganic Sludge Drying System Technology Applied with Ejector by Air Velocity (이젝터를 적용한 무기성 슬러지 건조시스템 기술개발)

  • Cho, En-man;Jeong, Won-hoon;Kim, Dong-keon;Kim, Bong-hwan
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Manufacturing Process Engineers
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    • v.21 no.9
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    • pp.35-41
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    • 2022
  • The moisture content of many inorganic sludges is less than 70% during dewatering. Hence, a mono or piston pump cannot feed the sludge dryer. Thus, most inorganic sludge should be moved to a landfill or recycled directly without any reduction method. This development was invented to apply cyclone dryers using air and specially designed for the continuous injection of sludge sources by negative pressure and high air velocity for low moisture inorganic matter. Therefore, wastewater sludge and raw water treatment sludge discharged from various industrial fields might be settled by this development. The cyclone dryer was commercialized useful as moisture reduction equipment. This development was applied using a sludge injection system for sludge feeding and under the cooperation of ejector design computational fluid dynamics. Furthermore, this paper presented good ejector model results, blowing an airflow of 264 m3/min at an actual performance test.