Treatment of municipal wastewater results worldwide in the production of large amounts of sewage sludge. The major part of the dry matter content of this sludge consists of nontoxic organic compounds, in general a combination of primary sludge and secondary (microbiological) sludge. The sludge also contains a substantial amount of inorganic material and a small amount of toxic components. There...

Several years of observations enabled us to assess the extent and variability of heavy metal contamination (Zn, Cu and Pb) of the sludge of the municipal stormwater treatment plant (the town of Puławy, Poland). In terms of size (high capacity) and innovation, it is the only facility of this kind in the country. It collects rainwater run-offs from two catchments (separate inlets) with a total ar...

Organic and inorganic contaminants in sewage sludge may cause their presence also in the by-products formed during gasification processes. Thus, this paper presents multidirectional chemical instrumental activation analyses of dried sewage sludge as well as both solid (ash, char coal) and liquid (tar) by-products formed during sewage gasification in a fixed bed reactor which was carried out to ...

Introduction Until relatively recently, anaerobic digestion (AD) plants at farm or industry level treated the organic waste arisings from a single farm or from an individual industrial operation. The installation of centralised AD plants, treating animal manures and slurries from a large number of farms, and the increasing use of co-digestion of manures, food-processing wastes, sewage sludge an...

More Information www.agilent.com/chem/icpms Introduction Biogas is the term used to describe the mixture of methane, carbon dioxide, nitrogen and other components resulting from the anaerobic fermentation of a variety of biodegradable materials including animal waste, domestic sewage sludge and municipal landfill waste. Because of its methane content (40-75%), biogas can be used as a substitute...

Article history: Received: 22.7.2016. Received in revised form: 2.11.2016. Accepted: 3.11.2016. As part of a wider feasibility study on the possible reuse potential of Croatian sewage sludge ash, ash has been produced by laboratory incineration of sewage sludge from two Croatian wastewater treatment plants. The Croatian sewage sludge ash was tested for soluble heavy metals according to EN 12457...

Effect of sewage sludge in vitro to suppress Phytophthora nicotianae Soil organic matter amendments may provide an alternative management practice for soil diseases caused by Phytophthora spp. In this paper we have evaluated the effectiveness of residential sewage sludge to suppress P. nicotianae under laboratory conditions. The effect of sewage sludge on P. nicotianae survival was evaluated by...