he 23 US. Army installations engaged in plating employ a variety of techniques to treat wastewater. While some sites have implemented recovery and T reuse, a majority still find it advantageous to precipitate the metals and discharge the wastewater. Sludge is collected in clarifiers, treated by gravity thickening, then dewatered in pressure or vacuum filters, lagoons or drying beds. The dewater...

Samples of wastewater sludge were examined for infectious enteroviruses before and after they had been chemically conditioned and dewatered. The least virus was recovered from the cake produced by filter pressing of sludge, which had a greatly increased solids content (39 to 45% [wt/vol]) relative to the untreated sludge (4.2 to 6.2% [wt/vol]) and in one plant was at pH 11 due to the lime condi...

Sludge drying reed bed (SDRB) is a technology adopted to treat sludge from septic tanks, latrines, or anaerobic and aerobic reactors. The sludge is loaded by pumping on vegetated beds, and treated by a combination of physical and biochemical processes. The dewatering of the sludge is due to a combined effect of drainage and evapotranspiration. The organic matter reduction of the sludge is drive...

This study was conducted to investigate the feasibility of vermicomposting by using vermicast as the substrate for the stabilization of municipal activated sludge, called hereafter as direct vermistabilization, in which the pre-treatment and bulking materials required in previous practices were all omitted. For this purpose, two epigeic earthworm species, namely Eisenia foetida and Bimastus par...

The transport of poliovirus type 1 (strain LSc) was studied in Red Bay sandy loam columns that were treated with chemical- or polyelectrolyte-conditioned dewatered sludges and then leached with natural rainwater under saturated flow conditions. Poliovirus was concentrated in the alum and ferric chloride sludges that were produced following the flocculation of virus-seeded raw sewage. Virtually ...

The water-and-waste sector has shown a marked interest in innovative management practices for dewatered sludge. need to manage increased sludge volumes at rising disposal costs, coupled with the recognition of potential on-site energy production, have been key drivers this recent appeal. With current political view supporting development renewable-gas industry Portugal, renewable gases are cons...

Dewatered sludges and biosolids generated from wastewater treatment facilities are known to emit malodorous odors causing public inconvenience. The odors typically comprise of reduced organo sulfur based compounds and nitrogen containing compounds. Lime stabilization is a technique which is commonly used in the wastewater industry to produce biosolids having reduced odors that can be safely lan...

During the last decade, more stringent effluent requirements concerning the nutrients effluent values have been imposed by legislation and social concern. In this study, efficiency of total nitrogen removal in activated sludge and trickling filter processes (AS/TF) was investigated in Tehran North wastewater treatment plant. Biological system in this site was included, anoxic selector tank, aer...

Thermal hydrolysis pre-treatment of sludge for anaerobic digestion increases biogas production, enhances volatile solids reduction, and improves dewaterability of digested sludge. This study reports the performance of a thermochemical hydrolysis process (TCHP) that utilizes heat (60°C70 °C) and sodium hydroxide for cell lysis. The objective of this study is to evaluate the impacts of implementi...