Year
2017
Degree Name
Doctor of Philosophy
Department
School of Civil, Mining and Environmental Engineering
Abstract
In most wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs), sewage sludge is treated by anaerobic digestion to convert the biodegradable organic content into biogas, which is a sustainable energy resource. Due to the increasing pressure on wastewater treatment infrastructure caused by ongoing urbanization and population growth, it is necessary to increase the treatment capacity of an existing WWTP meet the increasing wastewater inflow. Recuperative thickening is one of the approaches which can decouple sludge retention time (SRT) from hydraulic retention time (HRT). This project aims to study the effect of recuperative thickening on the anaerobic digestion performance, trace organic contaminants (TrOCs) removal, biosolids reduction and microbial community structure shift.
This project consists of four major studies.
Recommended Citation
Yang, Shufan, Wastewater sludge treatment by anaerobic digestion with recuperative thickening, Doctor of Philosophy thesis, School of Civil, Mining and Environmental Engineering, University of Wollongong, 2017. https://ro.uow.edu.au/theses1/66
FoR codes (2008)
0907 ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING
Unless otherwise indicated, the views expressed in this thesis are those of the author and do not necessarily represent the views of the University of Wollongong.