Temperature-Phased Biological Hydrolysis (TPBH) Pretreatment for Anaerobic Digestion Performance Enhancement of Municipal Wastewater Sludge
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Abstract
Anaerobic sludge digestion is used to stabilize wastewater sludge and can produce methane-rich biogas. Thermal hydrolysis (TH) and biological hydrolysis (BH) are the two main growing anaerobic digestion (AD) pretreatment technologies, both of which have demonstrated the capacity to enhance biogas production and solids destruction. Despite the BH pretreatment has been commercialized, it still needs improvements because the BH-AD process is at an early stage of its development where the process optimization and system upgrading remained open for further studies. The main objectives of this research were to understand and investigate the BH-AD operating parameters and to optimize the BH process for AD performance enhancement. Although it is important to establish whether the BH treatment could achieve a comparable AD performance enhancement to the TH, to the best of my knowledge, no direct comparison between these two sludge pretreatment technologies has yet been made by previously published studies under the same operational conditions. In the first stage of the study, experiments were carried out to compare the temperature-phased BH (TPBH) at temperature combinations of 42 oC and 55 oC against TH treatment at 165 oC. The results showed that BH treatment could achieve a comparative methane production enhancement for the AD of wastewater sludge. In the second stage of the study, the BH process optimization experiments were carried out to understand the impact of BH temperature, temperature phasing (TP), hydraulic retention time, solid content, BH inoculum, and AD inoculum on the BH-AD process performance. Such an understanding of the operating conditions of the BH-AD process could help to gain a deep insight into the optimization and design of the TPBH-AD process. This Ph.D. thesis is thus significant for the development, optimization, and design of the TPBH-AD process for wastewater sludge treatment, which could exert a significant impact to produce renewable energy from wastewater sludge and reduce CO2 emission.
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