Journal
WATER SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
Volume 46, Issue 10, Pages 199-208Publisher
IWA PUBLISHING
DOI: 10.2166/wst.2002.0330
Keywords
anaerobic digestion; BNR; environmental biotechnology; volatile solids; wasted activated sludge; wastewater treatment plant
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The paper deals with the performances of the mesophilic anaerobic digestion treatment of sewage sludge from a full scale BNR process without primary settling (nominally 300,000 PE). A relation between the activated sludge observed yields, Y-obs and the anaerobic digester performance was preliminarily found: for values of Y-obs. of 0.25 kgVSS/kgCOD the anaerobic digester specific gas production showed the best performances (0.22 m(3)/kgVS(fed)). This has to be confirmed with wider future studies. It was also shown the level of sludge pre-thickening to be reached for the self-sustaining warming of the digester also in wintertime. According to the energetic balance and to a comparison with an aerobic stabilisation process, it was pointed out as when a co-generation unit for heat and energy production was introduced about 3.4 kWh/PE y of energy were produced in the anaerobic digestion process. On the other hand, 4.3 kWh/PE y were spent if an aerobic stabilisation process was applied. The economic assessment, carried out on the basis of the energy balances, showed that the anaerobic digestion is always economically advantageous if compared to aerobic stabilisation processes, also for small WWTPs. According to the energetic evaluations an environmental balance was assessed, in terms of CO2 emissions. The difference between anaerobic and aerobic processes was about 5.3 kgCO(2)/PE y in favour of anaerobic processes application.
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