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Atv-Dvwk M 368 e PDF
Atv-Dvwk M 368 e PDF
Advisory Leaflet
ATV-DVWK-M 368E
April 2003
-ABSTRACT-
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ATV-DVWK-M 368E
Foreword
The stabilisation of sewage sludge is the most important basic operation of the overall treatment of sewage
sludge. The biological processes of sewage sludge stabilisation have become widespread across the world.
For decades they have been dimensioned and operated according to empirical approaches.
As usually several process objectives are to be met with the establishment and operation of sewage sludge
stabilisation steps it appears, despite the multifarious research work, not to be appropriate to establish
plants for the stabilisation of sewage sludge solely according to microbiological and reaction-kinetic ap-
proaches to dimensioning.
Current efforts towards the reduction of the stabilisation volume and of the stabilisation times, to reduce the
required investment costs, as well as the combined use of municipal digestion reactors for simultaneous
waste processing (e.g. co-fermentation) are to be examined critically.
The ATV-DVWK Specialist Committee AK-2 and its Working Group AK-2.1 have elaborated this Advisory
Leaflet from the aspect of the current status of technology, the relevant legislation and the necessary op-
erational requirements. With this a practice-related orientation aid is to be provided.
Contents
Foreword.............................................................................................................................................................2
Authors ..............................................................................................................................................................
Abbreviations .....................................................................................................................................................
5 Hygienic aspects........................................................................................................
6 Areas of application...................................................................................................
English version
in preparation
7 Bibliography................................................................................................................
Literature......................................................................................................................................
Type of process/function Milieu Phase or aggregate With/without self/outside Process Area of application Remarks
condition heating with/without out-
side energy with addition
of outside materials
Biological Aerobic In the liquid phase Without effective self- Long-term aeration e.g. For small wastewater -
heating with treatment plants
BTS ≤ 0,05 (kg/kg d)
With (effective) self- Aerobic-thermophilic Smaller to medium sized Concurrent disinfection
heating Sludge stabilisation (so- wastewater treatment
called liquid composting) plants
In the dewatered phase With (effective) self- Composting (e.g. in so- Smaller to medium sized Concurrent disinfection
heating called bioreactors) wastewater treatment
plants
Anaerobic In the liquid phase Without outside heating Imhoff tank Smaller wastewater With new construction no
treatment plants longer to be used
Open unheated digest- Previously smaller to -
ers medium sized wastewa-
ter treatment plants
With outside heating Independently heated Medium to large -
digesters wastewater treatment
Dual=aerobic/anaerobic In the liquid phase With self-heating or out- Usually comb- of aero- plants wastewater
Medium Concurrent disinfection
or anaerobic/aerobic side heating bic-thermophilic/ treatment plants
(usually with at least one anaerobic-mesophilic or
thermophilic stage anaerobic-thermophilic
and anaerobic-meso-
philic stage reactor with
heat recycling
Chemical Aerobic/anaerobic In the liquid phase With outside energy Wet oxidation Larger wastewater treat- Not very common
ment plants
In the dried phase With/without outside en- Incineration/gasification If possible only large -
ergy wastewater treatment
plants
Chem., preventing a (Aerobic) In the dewatered or liq- With addition of foreign So-called lime “stabilisa- Smaller to medium sized Only in Scandinavia also
short-term effective ma- uid phase matter tion” wastewater treatment with raw sludge
terial change through plants
strong pH-value rises
The stabilisation of sewage sludge is a central ba- aerobic) or through the condition of the aggregate,
sic operation of sewage sludge treatment and will with which the respective process is process-
retain this significance even with modified disposal technically realised (fluid/solid phase). In addition,
objectives and standards. With the processes the process variants differ through the respective
summarised in Table 2, the biological process al- process temperature.
ternatives play a dominating role.
For the practical dimensioning of stabilisation
The biological processes for sludge stabilisation, plants or their components there are different ap-
which are described in detail in the following chap- proaches for the recording of the amounts of sew-
ters, vary essentially through the type of the acti- age sludge to be taken into account, which is in-
vated microbiological biocenosis (aerobic / an- vestigated in particular in Chapter 3.