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Sludge Treatment Methods in Wastewater Engineering

The document discusses methods for treating sewage sludge, including thickening to reduce volume, conditioning to improve dewatering, dewatering further using units like belt presses, and further volume reduction using dryers or incineration.

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Sludge Treatment Methods in Wastewater Engineering

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Water and Wastewater

Engineering
ECE4453

Prepared by Dr. Aida Isma


Sludge treatment
Learning objectives
• Explain methods of sludge handling.
• Thickening
• Nutrient removal
• Sludge handling
• Digestion
Introduction
 Sewage sludge that is collected from the
primary and secondary treatment must be
treated.
 The untreated stage is malodorous and
contains pathogen and toxic elements and
compounds.
 The aim of sludge treatment are to reduce
the volume and bulk in sludge, reduce
pathogens in sludge, minimize the cost of
disposal, reduce odor and vector attraction,
satisfy environmental requirements and
generate energy.
What is in sludge?
 The constituents removed in wastewater
treatment plants include screenings, grit,
scum, solids and biosolids.
 The solids and biosolids (sludge) resulting
from wastewater treatment operations and
processes, which typically contain 0.25% –
12% solids by weight.
 Water Environment Federation (WEF, 1998),
reflects the fact that sludge are organic
products that can be used beneficially after
treatment.
Production of sludge
• The mass production of primary sludge from
the sedimentation tank can be estimated as

Sludge treatment and disposal
methods
Thickening
 Sludge consists of water and solids that
comes from primary and secondary
treatment.
 To ease solids removal, water is removed 
to reduce sludge volume
 The process is called sludge thickening.
 Common methods:
 Centrifugation
 Gravity thickening
 Dissolved air flotation
 Gravity belt thickening
Water

Solids

Water

Water
Gravity belt
Solids

Prepared by Ms Aida Isma


Sludge Centrifuge
Conditioning
 Conditioning is done prior to dewatering to
increase the strength of sludge.
 Coagulant and/or flocculant is dosed as the
conditioning agent.
 Dosage is determined by laboratory method
 Buchner funnel test: A test method of
testing sludge drainability or dewatering
characteristics using various conditioning
agents
Dewatering
 Dewatering is done to:
 Reduce transportation costs.
 Ease of handling.
 Increase calorific value prior to
incineration.
 To render biosolids odorless and non-
putrecible.
 Common units:
 Belt press
 Filter press
Dewatering Units

Belt Press
Reduction
• To further reduce the volume of sludge
• Can be done by:
• Dryer
• Incineration

Incinerator

Sludge dryer
Dried sludge

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