Journal
WATER RESEARCH
Volume 71, Issue -, Pages 330-340Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.watres.2014.12.027
Keywords
Secondary sewage sludge; Thermal hydrolysis; Advanced thermal hydrolysis; Mesophilic anaerobic digestion; Biochemical methane potential tests; Methane production
Funding
- NOVEDAR_Consolider Project [CSD2007-00055]
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Studies on the development and evolution of anaerobic digestion (AD) pretreatments are nowadays becoming widespread, due to the outstanding benefits that these processes could entail in the management of sewage sludge. Production of sewage sludge in wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) is becoming an extremely important environmental issue. The work presented in this paper is a continuation of our previous studies with the aim of understanding and developing the advanced thermal hydrolysis (ATH) process. ATH is a novel AD pretreatment based on a thermal hydrolysis (TH) process plus hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) addition that takes advantage of a peroxidation/direct steam injection synergistic effect. The main goal of the present research was to compare the performance of TH and ATH, conducted at a wide range of operating conditions, as pretreatments of mesophilic AD with an emphasis on methane production enhancement as a key parameter and its connection with the sludge solubilization. Results showed that both TH and ATH patently improved methane production in subsequent mesophilic BMP (biochemical methane potential) tests in comparison with BMP control tests (raw secondary sewage sludge). Besides other interesting results and discussions, a promising result was obtained since ATH, operated at temperature (115 degrees C), pretreatment time (5 min) and pressure (1 bar) considerably below those typically used in TH (170 degrees C, 30 min, 8 bar), managed to enhance the methane production in subsequent mesophilic BMP tests [biodegradability factor (f(B)) = cumulative CH4 production/cumulative CH4 production (Control) = 1.51 +/- 0.01] to quite similar levels than conventional TH pretreatment [f(B) = 1.52 +/- 0.03]. (C) 2014 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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