The use of hydrodynamic cavitation for waste-to-energy approach to enhance methane production from waste activated sludge.
Disintegration
Energy balance
Hydrodynamic cavitation
Methane production
Viscosity
Waste activated sludge
Journal
Journal of environmental management
ISSN: 1095-8630
Titre abrégé: J Environ Manage
Pays: England
ID NLM: 0401664
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
01 Dec 2023
01 Dec 2023
Historique:
received:
16
05
2023
revised:
30
06
2023
accepted:
30
08
2023
medline:
1
11
2023
pubmed:
8
10
2023
entrez:
7
10
2023
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
Anaerobic digestion in wastewater treatment plants converts its unwanted end product - waste activated sludge into biogas. Even if the process is well established, pre-treatment of the sludge can further improve its efficiency. In this study, four treatment regimes for increasing methane production through prior sludge disintegration were investigated using lab-scale cavitation generator and real sludge samples. Three different cavitating (attached cavitation regime, developed cloud shedding cavitation regime and cavitation in a wake regime) and one non-cavitating regime at elevated static pressure were studied in detail for their effectiveness on physical and chemical properties of sludge samples. Volume-weighted mean diameter D[4,3] of sludge's particles decreased by up to 92%, specific surface area increased by up to 611%, while viscosity (at a shear rate of 3.0 s
Identifiants
pubmed: 37804635
pii: S0301-4797(23)01862-5
doi: 10.1016/j.jenvman.2023.119074
pii:
doi:
Substances chimiques
Sewage
0
Methane
OP0UW79H66
Types de publication
Journal Article
Langues
eng
Sous-ensembles de citation
IM
Pagination
119074Informations de copyright
Copyright © 2023 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd.. All rights reserved.
Déclaration de conflit d'intérêts
Declaration of competing interest The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper.