• 대한환경공학회지
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• 제27권10호
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• pp.1052-1057
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• 2005

본 연구에서는 오존분해 된 슬러지를 인 방출을 위한 외부 탄소원으로 사용하기 적절한지 평가하기 위하여 오존 주입량 변화에 따라 오존분해된 슬러지의 성상변화와 함께 인 방출 실험 및 VFA(Volatile Fatty Acid) 생성량을 살펴보았다. 슬러지를 오존 주입량 0.5 g $O_3/g$ SS로 분해했을 경우 TCOD(Total Chemical Oxygen Demand)와 TSS(Total Suspended Solid)는 오존분해 전 7050, 4900 mg/L에서 5850, 2867 mg/L로 각각 17, 41% 감소하였다. 또한, pH는 6.6에서 3.8로 감소하였고, SCOD(Soluble Chemical Oxygen Demand)는 38.7 mg/L에서 2760 mg/L로 약 70배 증가함을 보였다. 오존 분해에 의해 acetic acid와 같은 VFA도 새로이 생성됨을 확인하였다. Acetic acid의 경우 0.05 g $O_3/g$ SS로 분해된 슬러지에서 50.24 mg/L가 생성되었으며, 0.5 g $O_3/g$ SS로 분해된 슬러지의 경우는 123.56 mg/L로 증가되었다. 그러나 혐기성 소화에 의한 VFA의 증가량은 0.05 g $O_3/g$ SS로 분해된 슬러지에서 Acetic acid가 50.24 mg/L에서 219.28 mg/L로 가장 많이 증가되었다. 또한 낮은 오존 주입량(0.05, 01 g $O_3/g$ SS)으로 분해된 슬러지에서 관찰되지 않았던 Propionic acid는 46 mg/L가 새로이 증가하였다. 그 외 혐기성 소화로 인해 n-Butyric Acid, Propionic Acid, n-Butyric Acid, Isovaleric Acid, Valleric Acid의 농도도 증가하였다. 오존 주입량에 따라 SCOD, VFA의 농도는 증가하지만 인 방출 속도 및 경제성을 고려하여 적정 오존 주입 농도는 0.05-0.1 g $O_3/g$ SS로 조사되었다.

• 분석과학
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• 제12권4호
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• pp.318-325
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• 1999

한지를 만들 때 발생하는 폐수로부터 분리하여 얻은 슬러지를 분석하여 본 결과 잿물 삶기 공정과 최종 화학 및 미생물처리 공정의 슬러지는 섬유질이 아니고, 표백 공정, 표백제 씻기 공정, 그리고 지통으로 옮기기 공정의 슬러지는 섬유질이었다. 고형분의 양은 표백 공정에서 가장 많았다. 수분 함량은 표백, 표백제 씻기 및 최종 화학 및 미생물 처리 공정의 슬러지 시료가 80~90% 정도로 많은 것으로 나타났다. 각 공정에서 발생되는 슬러지의 pH를 냉수와 열수를 이용하여 측정한 결과 표백 시료가 하이포아염소산 이온으로 인해 다른 시료보다 높은 pH를 나타내었다. 슬러지의 무기물 성분 함량은 잿물 삶기 시료에서는 Na, 표백제 씻기 시료에서는 Ca, 최종 화학 및 미생물 처리 슬러지에서는 Ca 와 Al을 주로 포함하고 있었으며, 그 외에도 Mg, Fe, K, P, Mn, Ti 등도 적은 양을 포함하고 있었다. 회분의 함량은 표백 공정의 슬러지일 경우에 가장 많은 것으로 나타났다. 슬러지를 주사 전자현미경으로 관찰한 결과 섬유질 모양과 결정성 모양으로 존재함을 알 수 있었는데 섬유질의 폭은 $5{\sim}50{\mu}m$ 정도이었다. 냉수와 온수에서 녹아 나오는 가용분과 알코올-벤젠 가용분 모두 표백 공정의 슬러지에서 가장 많았다.

• 한국농공학회지
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• 제34권3호
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• pp.75-84
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• 1992

The paper manufactories in Sangpyeong Industrial Estates, Chinju, produce more than 80 tons of paper-mill sludge cakes every day, which costs about 840 million won for dump per year. Since the paper-mill sludge is biodegradable, the sludge can he utilized as an organic fertilizer if it is properly decomposed. This may lead to not only dramatic cut of the treatment cost but prevention from secondary environmental contamination due to dump. The primary objective of the study was to explore the quantitative range of major enviromental parameters influencing early composting of paper-mill cakes, naturally pretreated in warn and cold weather. The automatically-controlled reactor was designed, manufactured, and operated for nine days to decompose about 2201 of raw sludge cakes. Four tests(Test 1-Test 4) were implemented for the study of Phase I. Treatments of two levels of initial temperature (40˚C and 28˚C) and two levels of water content + C/N ratio (35% + 40 and 63% + 80) were made to test the significance of their parameters for decomposition of raw sludge cakes pretreated in warm weather. Another four tests (Test 5- Test 8) were implemented for the study of Phase II. Treatments of initial temperature and water content(W/C) + C/N ratio of raw sludge pretreated in cold weather were made to 16˚C and 13% +58 for Test 5, 6˚C and 53% +55 for Test 6, 7˚C and 36% +81 for Test 7, 31˚C and 30% +81 for Test 8. Natural weater condition(pretreatment condition) revealed the importance m composting of the paper-mill sludge cakes. Combination of water content adjustment to about 30% with C/N ratio amendment of about 20 and initial temperature of 30~40˚C was concluded to be the best for early composting of paper-mill sludge cakes with aeration rate and pH fixed. Temperature and C/N ratio were adapted as judging variables for composting degree. In addition, tests for microbial activity were performed to validate the experimental results. Since the temperature and C/N ratio did not coincide in some tests as judging variables for the maturity of the composting sludges, taking one of these parameters could mislead the concept of the maturity (composting conceptually new criterion to provide more reliable information for early composting of paper-mill sludge cakes.

• 한국물환경학회지
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• 제21권1호
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• pp.29-33
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• 2005

In order to recycle the waste material and to develop the thickening unit of waste activated sludge from wastewater treatment facilities, the filtration bio-reactor equipped with a shadow mask filter module was employed for this work from which the operating properties and parameters were drawn. The sludge thickening and filtration unit is made of cylindrical acryl tank(12cm i.d. ${\times}$ 58cm height: working volume of 6L), where the flat-sheet type of shadow mask filter module(pore size: 220~250um, opening area: 34.8~39.6%) was installed and the effluent was withdrawn from the effluent port at the lowest point of the reactor, and the filtration was performed only by the hydraulic pressure. For evaluating the operating performance of this reactor, some parameters such as the solid-liquid separation of different biomass concentrations, the water quality of filtrate, the aeration cleaning time and the cleaning effect were investigated. Depending on the MLSS concentrations, the different time to withdraw 3L of filtrate was required in which the longer filtration time was necessary for the higher MLSS concentrations caused by the thicker formation of cake layer: 40 minutes for 5,000 mg/L, 70 minutes for 10,000 mg/L and 100 minutes for 15,000 mg/L, where the concentrations of SS were 8.9, 6.7 and 6.5 mg/L, respectively. Under the same operating conditions (the intensity of aeration cleaning: 80 L/min, MLSS: 10,000 mg/L), the proper aeration cleaning time was revealed 30 seconds, and the stable formation of cake layer was in the range of 10 to 15 minutes. Therefore, the shadow mask considered as a waste material can be of use as a filter material for the sludge thickening system.

• Membrane and Water Treatment
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• 제9권3호
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• pp.155-162
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• 2018

Process modeling with activated sludge models (ASMs) is useful for the design and operational improvement of biological nutrient removal (BNR) processes. Effective utilization of ASMs requires the influent fraction analysis (IFA) of the wastewater treatment plant (WWTP). However, this is difficult due to the time and cost involved in the design and operation steps, thereby declining the simulation reliability. Harmony Search (HS) algorithm was utilized herein to determine the relationships between composite variables and state variables of the model IWA ASM1. Influent fraction analysis was used in estimating fractions of the state variables of the WWTP influent and its application to 9 wastewater treatment processes in South Korea. The results of influent $S_s$ and $Xs+X_{BH}$, which are the most sensitive variables for design of activated sludge process, are estimated within the error ranges of 8.9-14.2% and 3.8-6.4%, respectively. Utilizing the chemical oxygen demand (COD) fraction analysis for influent wastewater, it was possible to predict the concentrations of treated organic matter and nitrogen in 9 full scale BNR processes with high accuracy. In addition, the results of daily influent fraction analysis (D-IFA) method were superior to those of the constant influent fraction analysis (C-IFA) method.

• 농업과학연구
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• 제37권2호
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• pp.217-222
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• 2010

This study was conducted to investigate the effect of fertilizer composted of dam suspended particle sawdust and sewage sludge to soil properties and seedling growth. The Betula platyphylla var japonica, Zelkova serrata and Chamaecyparis obtusa were used for this study. The soil organic matter, total nitrogen, phosphorous, exchangeable calcium, magnesium, and potassium were increased with fertilizer treatment. Heavy metal concentration in soil was increased with fertilizer treatment, but the level was very low. With fertilizer treatment, growth, photosynthetic capacity, and chlorophyll concentration of seedling were improved.

• 한국환경보건학회지
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• 제19권4호
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• pp.38-43
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• 1993

The characteristics of food wastewater treatment in an anaerobic packed bed reactor (APBR) with polyurethane as a packing material and sludge bed reactor (ASBR) was studied. The reactor of 9cm-ID, 150cm-height was fed in a continuous mode from bottom of reactor. For the purpose of constant temperature of reactor, water jacket was installed. The used packing materials was polyurethane sponge foam. Methane which was produced by decomposed organics collected at the top of the reactor for using as a fuel. The substrates used were synthetic, mixed and food wastewater. For the acclimatization of microorganisms, mixed wastewater was used. The major analyses were gas production, COD, pH and volatile acids. Based upon the completed works, the results are as follows: When food wastewater was fed the quantity of produced gas was less than that of synthetic wastewater, but food process saw higher methane content than synthetic process. As well as COD removal efficiency of food process reached at about 85%. In aspect of effluent volatile acid, food process showed low concentration of below 500 mg/l, therefore anaerobic reaction stabled. Conclusively food wastewater used can be digested by anaerobic treatment, especially anaerobic packed bed reactor showed 82% of COD removal, 75% of methane content, 10 l of gas production, and anaerobic sludge bed reactor did 79% of COD removal, 75% of methane content, 81 of gas production at 4 kgCOD/m$^3$day, 36$\circ$C.

• 상하수도학회지
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• 제30권2호
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• pp.187-196
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• 2016

In this study, a newly developed agitator with hydrofoil impeller applied to actual biological process in advanced wastewater treatment plant was evaluated. Several series of experiments were conducted in two different wastewater treatment plants where actual problems have been occurred such as the production of scums and sludge settling. For more effective evaluation, computational fluid dynamics (CFD) and measurements of MLSS (Mixed Liquor Suspended Solids) and DO (Dissolved Oxygen) were used with other measuring equipments. After the installation of one unit of vertical hydrofoil agitator in plant A, scum and sludge settling problems were solved and more than seventy percent of operational energy was saved. In case of plant B, there were three cells of each anoxic and anaerobic tanks, and each cell had one unit of submersible horizontal agitator. After the integration of three cells to one cell in each tank, and installation of one vertical hydrofoil agitator per tank, all the problems caused by improper mixing were solved and more than eighty percent of operational energy was found to be saved. Simple change of agitator applied to biological process in wastewater treatment plant was proved to be essential to eliminate scum and sludge settling problems and to save input energy.

• 청정기술
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• 제6권1호
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• pp.39-49
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• 2000

초고속응집침전공정(URC)은 가중응집제(WCA) 첨가와 슬러지 반송을 통해 floc의 침전 속도를 향상시키고, 입자표면의 흡착을 활성화하여 오염물을 보다 효율적으로 제거할 수 있으며, lamella plate를 포함하는 침전조를 이용하여 초기 우수 유출(CSO)과 같은 막대한 유량에 대하여 경제성 있는 침전조 수면적 부하를 획득할 수 있음을 확인하였다. 또한, 침전조의 최적설계를 위해 유체 유동장 모델을 이용한 모사가 수행되었으며, 공정에서 발생되는 슬러지에 대한 재활용 가능성을 평가하여 2차적 오염부하를 억제하기 위한 방안을 모색하였다.

• Advances in environmental research
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• 제5권2호
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• pp.141-151
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• 2016

Large amounts of aluminum hydroxide ($Al(OH)_3$) exist in water purification sludge (WPS) because of the added aluminum coagulant in water treatment process. Notably, $Al(OH)_3$ is an amphoteric compound, can be dissolved in its basic condition using sodium hydroxide to form aluminate ions ($Al(OH)_4{^-}$). However, in a process in which pH is increasing, the humid acid can be dissolved easily from WPS and will inhibit the recovery and reuse of the dissolved aluminate ions. This study attempts to fix this problem by a novel approach to separate $Al(OH)_4{^-}$ ions using nanofiltration (NF) technology. Sludge impurity in a alkaline solution is retained by the NF membrane, such that the process recovers $Al(OH)_4{^-}$ ions, and significantly decreases the organic matter or heavy metal impurities in the permeate solution. The $Al(OH)_4{^-}$ ion is an alkaline substance. Experimental results confirm that a recovered coagulant of $Al(OH)_4{^-}$ ion can effectively remove kaolin particles from slightly acidic synthetic raw water.