Journal
BIORESOURCE TECHNOLOGY
Volume 174, Issue -, Pages 6-10Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.biortech.2014.09.122
Keywords
Rheology; High-solid anaerobic digestion; Sludge retention time; Mesophilic; Thermophilic
Funding
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [51278358]
- key projects of National Water Pollution Control and Management of China [2011ZX07303, 2012ZX07313-001]
- State 863 Projects [2012AA063503]
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The main purpose of this study was to investigate the rheology evolution of sludge through high-solid anaerobic digestion (AD) and its dependency on sludge retention time (SRT) and temperature of AD reactor. The operation performance of high-solid AD reactors were also studied. The results showed that sludge became much more flowable after high-solid AD. It was found that the sludge from reactors with long SRT exhibited low levels of shear stress, viscosity, yield stress, consistency index, and high value of flow behaviour index. While the flowability of sludge from thermophilic AD reactors were better than that of sludge from mesophilic AD reactors though the solid content of the formers were higher than that of the latters, which could be attributed to the fact that the formers had more amount of free and interstitial moisture. It might be feasible to use sludge rheology as an AD process controlling parameter. (C) 2014 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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