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- Title
Enhanced Sewage Sludge Drying with a Modified Solar Greenhouse.
- Authors
Sorrenti, Alice; Corsino, Santo Fabio; Traina, Francesco; Viviani, Gaspare; Torregrossa, Michele
- Abstract
This work reports the results obtained with an innovative configuration of a closed-static solar greenhouse for sludge drying. The novelty of the solar greenhouse configuration consisted in using a forced ventilation system to provide hot air for sludge drying and the utilization of solar irradiation for energy supply. Wet sewage sludge (97% humidity) was successfully dried up to a residual humidity close to 5% after 25 days during wintertime. The increase of the airflow rate supplied under the sludge bed improved the sludge drying rate. Moreover, the fraction of volatile suspended solids decreased from 70% to 41% after 13 days, indicating that air supply promoted the simultaneous stabilization of the sludge as a side-effect to the drying process. Overall, the specific energy consumption per ton of evaporated water was estimated to approximately 450 kWh/t, resulting in about 55% of energy demand lower than a conventional thermal drying system, while using only free solar energy. The achieved high weight reduction of up to 99% implies a noticeable reduction of the excess sludge handling costs, indicating that solar greenhouse drying is a highly interesting opportunity for sludge drying in medium-small sized WWTPs.
- Subjects
SEWAGE sludge drying; SEWAGE sludge digestion; SEWAGE sludge; SOLAR stills; POWER resources; SUSPENDED solids; MINE ventilation
- Publication
Clean Technologies, 2022, Vol 4, Issue 2, p407
- ISSN
2571-8797
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3390/cleantechnol4020025