A unified operating procedure is crucial to evaluate sludge dewaterability, taking the setup of refrigerated storage time as an example.
A unified operating procedure is crucial to evaluate sludge dewaterability, taking the setup of refrigerated storage time as an example.
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DOI：
10.1016/j.jenvman.2022.114528
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发表时间：
2022-01
影响因子：
8.7
通讯作者：
Hou-Feng Wang;H. Qi;Ze-Han Lian;Ya-Li Zhang;Jing Li;R. Zeng
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作者：
Hou-Feng Wang;H. Qi;Ze-Han Lian;Ya-Li Zhang;Jing Li;R. Zeng
Although extensive efforts have been carried out to study sludge dewatering mechanism, the lack of universal operating procedures makes it never be satisfactorily explained. This study evaluated the impact of a unified operating procedure on waste activated sludge (WAS) dewaterability by taking the setup of refrigerated storage time as an example. It was found that storage time played an important role in determining WAS dewaterability and sampled WAS should be refrigerated within 2 days. The results showed that after 2-d storage, sludge filterability was deteriorated significantly while the extent of dewatering efficiency had little change. Meanwhile, increasing storage time greatly increased the release of extracellular polymeric substances (EPS) and heavy metals, decreased sludge viscosity and weakened its network strength, but had little impact on the floc size and zeta potential of the sludge samples. It can hardly reveal the mechanism of storage time on sludge dewaterability due to the non-uniformity of operating procedures in literatures, which is normally ignored. This study emphasizes a unified operating procedure is crucial to evaluate WAS dewaterability. Therefore, more efforts shall be focused on establishing the uniform operating procedure while advancing applied research in the field of sludge dewatering.
