- Title
- Impact of gas injection on physicochemical properties of waste activated sludge: A linear relationship between the change of viscoelastic properties and the change of other physiochemical properties
- Creator
- Bobade, Veena; Evans, Geoffrey; Baudez, Jean Christophe; Eshtiaghi, Nicky
- Relation
- Water Research Vol. 144, Issue 1 November 2018, p. 246-253
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.watres.2018.07.041
- Publisher
- Elsevier
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2018
- Description
- Aeration process in the waste activated sludge treatment accounts for 75% of total energy consumption of the treatment plant. The main purpose of the aeration process is to enhance the biodegradation of the liquid waste. Gas bubbles, rising through the liquid, improves mixing, reduces inhomogeneities in the treatment tank and enhances biological reactions. Thus aeration intensity and several physicochemical properties of feed such as viscosity, total suspended solids, and surface charge play a significant role in the biological reaction. This paper examines the impact of the gas injection rate on some physicochemical properties of waste activated sludge namely rheological properties, suspended solids, soluble COD (sCOD), surface tension, and zeta potential. The impact of four different gas flow rates on four different concentrations of waste activated sludge properties was analysed. The results showed that in linear viscoelastic regime the viscous and elastic modulus decreases linearly with an increase in gas flow rate. The amount of stress imposed by gas injection also showed a direct relationship with gas velocity. Gas injection also showed a substantial impact on soluble COD, suspended solids, and zeta potential. Additionally, a linear relationship was observed between the percentage change in the above mentioned physical properties and stress imposed by gas injection. These results confirm that gas injection produces additional shear impacting sludge physicochemical properties and therefore changes its rheological behaviour. The extra stress induced by gas injection can be predicted using a simple model based on sludge concentration and gas velocity.
- Subject
- waste activated sludge; viscoelastic properties; suspended solids; soluble COD; zeta potential; SDG 6; Sustainable Development Goals
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1464498
- Identifier
- uon:47017
- Identifier
- ISSN:0043-1354
- Language
- eng
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