Abstract：
:Nowadays, sludge management represents one of the most critical challenges in the field of sewage treatment for economic and environmental impacts. Therefore, the reduction of sludge has become a major issue for the operators of municipal wastewater treatment plants. In the present paper, a new system, whose acronym is MULESL (MUch LEss SLudge), is proposed and tested at full scale for reducing the quantity of sludge in the water line of the sewage treatment plant. MULESL system takes the advantage of maintenance metabolism to significantly reduce the sludge production. The effectiveness of MULESL system in removing the typical pollutants and reducing sludge production was evaluated at full scale by using 3500 PE unit located in Putignano's WWTP (Puglia, Italy). This unit was obtained by retrofitting an existing activated sludge basin. The results obtained over 1-year period, during which MULESL unit treated the effluent of the preliminary treatment step, have indicated that it was characterized by a specific sludge production as low as 0.13 kg of dry sludge per kg of COD removed; 77% lower than that recorded for primary and secondary treatments of the conventional plant during the same period. This sludge reduction was obtained with a plant volume 27% smaller than that of the conventional water line. Furthermore, the organic matter of the sludge was already stabilized, thus allowing to save investment costs for digestion process facilities. Finally, MULESL unit guaranteed a mean removal efficiency higher than 95% for COD, BOD5, TSS, TKN, NH3 and TN.
journal_name
J Environ Managejournal_title
Journal of environmental managementauthors
Di Iaconi C,De Sanctis M,Altieri VGdoi
10.1016/j.jenvman.2020.110714subject
Has Abstractpub_date
2020-09-01 00:00:00pages
110714eissn
0301-4797issn
1095-8630pii
S0301-4797(20)30646-0journal_volume
269pub_type
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