Yuxuan Zhang, Panyue Zhang, Boqiang Ma, Hao Wu, Sheng Zhang, Xin Xu
Beijing Key Laboratory for Source Control Technology of Water Pollution, Beijing Forestry University, Beijing 100083, China. zzyyxx0618@163.com
Journal of environmental sciences (China) 2012High-pressure homogenization (HPH) technology was applied as a pretreatment to disintegrate sewage sludge. The effects of homogenization pressure, homogenization cycle number, and total solid content on sludge disintegration were investigated. The sludge disintegration degree (DD(COD)), protein concentration, and polysaccharide concentration increased with the increase of homogenization pressure and homogenization cycle number, and decreased with the increase of sludge total solid (TS) content. The maximum DD(COD) of 43.94% was achieved at 80 MPa with four homogenization cycles for a 9.58 g/L TS sludge sample. A HPH sludge disintegration model of DD(COD) = kNaPb was established by multivariable linear regression to quantify the effects of homogenization parameters. The homogenization cycle exponent a and homogenization pressure exponent b were 0.4763 and 0.7324 respectively, showing that the effect of homogenization pressure (P) was more significant than that of homogenization cycle number (N). The value of the rate constant k decreased with the increase of sludge total solid content. The specific energy consumption increased with the increment of sludge disintegration efficiency. Lower specific energy consumption was required for higher total solid content sludge.
Yuxuan Zhang, Panyue Zhang, Boqiang Ma, Hao Wu, Sheng Zhang, Xin Xu. Sewage sludge disintegration by high-pressure homogenization: a sludge disintegration model. Journal of environmental sciences (China). 2012;24(5):814-20
PMID: 22893956
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