CN1559940A - Method for accelerating sludge anaerobic digest speed rate of sewage plant - Google Patents
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Abstract
The invention discloses a method of accelerating anaerobic digestion of mud in sewage treatment plant, having short reaction cycle and low cost, and simultaneously able to increase gas output and having good economic benefits. Its concrete steps: screening the mud taken from the sewage treatment plant by a 5-50 mm-sized sieve to eliminate larger impurity particles; making irradiation treatment by higher-penetrability gama-ray and controlling the irradiation quantity absorbed by the mud at 0-30kGy; then inoculating the mud with inoculating mud in the ratio of 1-5 to 1 and making anaerobic digestion reaction, where the stirring rate controlled at 70-120 r/min, the reaction temperature controlled at 20-60 deg.C and the reaction time 10-20 days. The technique can be used in a mud treatment system in sewage treatment plant.
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Technical field
The present invention relates to a kind of technology of quickening sewage plant sludge anaerobic digestion speed, this technology can be widely used in mud treatment system in sewage treatment plant.
Background technology
Sewage plant sludge is meant the flocculent substance that produces in the water treatment procedure, mainly is made up of organism, organism and a large amount of materials such as moisture.Contain elements such as a large amount of organism and N, P in the mud, also contain objectionable impuritiess such as heavy metal, hardly degraded organic substance and pathogenic bacteria simultaneously, if let alone discharging then can cause serious environmental to pollute.At present, the many countries method commonly used that comprises China mainly contains agriculture utilization, landfill, burning disposal etc.
In general, sludge yield by the processing sewage quantity 1~3%.At present, the annual discharging of China sludge quantity is about 5.0 * 10
6T, and have ever-increasing trend.A large amount of accumulation of mud have brought great difficulty for its follow-up processing and disposing task.Anaerobic digestion is traditional sludge stabilization process.Compare with other method, this method has the volume that can reduce mud, kill pathogenic bacteria, reduce volatile content, reduce stink and improve advantages such as dewatering, can also produce methane gas and the recovery part energy simultaneously, thereby cut down the consumption of energy.Thereby anaerobic sludge digestion technology is extensively adopted by sewage work always.
Anaerobic digestion is divided into hydrolysis, acidifying, product acid, produces 4 steps of methane, wherein, hydrolysing step speed is slow, thereby has caused shortcomings such as the anaerobic sludge digestion residence time long (generally needing 30-40 days), digestibility be low, and this certainly will make the sludge digestion device very huge.Expensive fixed investment and big floor space make many Sewage Plant can't build the sludge digestion device, thereby have brought great trouble for the follow-up disposing task of mud.Thereby accelerate sludge anaerobic digestion speed improves the focus that the sludge digestion rate then becomes people's Recent study.
Summary of the invention
The present invention is directed to long deficiency of anaerobic sludge digestion cycle in the prior art, a kind of method of quickening sewage plant sludge anaerobic digestion speed is provided, this method is short reaction time, and cost is low, can increase gas production rate simultaneously, has good economic benefit.
The objective of the invention is to realize by following measure:
A kind of method of quickening sewage plant sludge anaerobic digestion speed, its concrete steps are:
Step 1: the excess sludge size of mesh of taking from Sewage Plant is that the sieve of 5-50mm sieves, and makes the wherein bigger Impurity removal of particle;
Step 2: with the gamma-radiation with higher penetration performance it is carried out radiation treatment, the irradiation dose that mud is absorbed is controlled at 0~30kGy;
Step 3: mud behind the irradiation and seed sludge are in 1-5: carry out the anaerobic digestion reaction after 1 the ratio inoculation, its stirring velocity is controlled at 70-120 rev/min, and temperature of reaction is 20-60 ℃, reaction times 10-20 days.
Purpose of the present invention can also realize by following measure:
In the step 1 behind the preferably first mixing after sieve, best size of mesh is 10-20mm
Adopt in the generation source of gamma-radiation described in the step 2
137Cs or
60Co.
Mud in the step 3 behind the irradiation and seed sludge are best in 1-3: 1 ratio is inoculated.
Postvaccinal mud enters the static digestion reactor of anaerobism and carries out the anaerobic digestion reaction in the step 3.
The stirring velocity optimum control is at 80-100 rev/min in the step 3.
Temperature of reaction the best is 30-50 ℃ in the step 3.
The temperature of anaerobic digestion reaction and stirring intensity adopt water bath with thermostatic control vibrator or constant temperature blender with magnetic force control in the step 3.
The beneficial effect that the present invention has compared to existing technology:
The invention provides a kind of method of brand-new acceleration sewage plant sludge anaerobic digestion speed, specifically, utilize gamma-radiation that the excess sludge of sewage work is carried out pre-treatment exactly with higher penetration performance, improve the biodegradability of mud, make it to be more conducive to hydrolysis and anaerobic digestion, thereby improve the anaerobic digestion speed of mud.After the gamma-radiation radiation treatment, the pH value of mud decreases, but still meets the requirement of anaerobic digestion, regulates the pH value so need not add allogenic material.
Gamma-radiation be meant radioelement (as
137Cs and
60Co) a kind of electromagnetic quantities wavelet that is similar to light that produces in decay process has stronger photon energy and short wavelength.After gamma-radiation enters mud, 10
-7Second in mud in water molecules, cotton-shaped particulate matter and microorganism etc. react, by " directly effect " or " indirect action ", reduce mud granule thing size, break the microbial cell wall, improve the solubility organic constituent, quicken anaerobic hydrolysis speed, thus can accelerate sludge anaerobic digestion speed.
At irradiation dose is under the treatment condition of 0~30kGy, in identical anaerobism in the residence time, the clearance of total solids, total volatile solid(s) (TVS), suspension volatile solid has all improved 5~10%, and gas production rate has increased by 5~45%, can shorten (only needing 10-20 days) reaction time greatly.As seen, gamma-radiation is used for the anaerobic sludge digestion pre-treatment, can improve anaerobic sludge digestion speed, reduces the digestion facility capacity, saves fixed investment, but also can obtain more energy gas, has good economic benefit.In addition, compare with additive method, the present invention also have do not add allogenic material, safe in utilization, kill pathogenic bacteria and reduce advantages such as pollutent toxicity, so have positive environmental benefit.
Therefore, the sludge treatment technique with the present invention is used for municipal wastewater treatment plant has good economic benefit and environmental benefit, wide application prospect.
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Embodiment 1: test mud is the excess sludge of municipal wastewater treatment plant, water ratio about 98%, median size 85 μ m.Mud mixes the back and crosses the 50mm sieve to reject the bigger impurity (as the plastics bag in the mud, branch, rotted leaf, masonry etc.) of particle diameter.Warp
60(source strength is 500,000Ci), under lower irradiation dose (2.48kGy) mud is carried out radiation treatment, and the soluble chemical oxygen requirement increases by 79% after the radiation, and median size is decreased to 59.22 μ m in the Co source.Mud behind the irradiation and seed sludge enter the static digestion reactor of anaeration in normal temperature, reactor volume 500ml according to 1: 1 ratio.The temperature of anaerobic reaction and stirring intensity adopt the control of water bath with thermostatic control vibrator, and temperature of reaction is 35 ± 1 ℃, and stirring velocity is 80 ± 10 rev/mins.20 days anaerobic reaction cycles, during index such as periodic measurement gas production rate, dissolved organic matter and solids content.After reaction finished, (0kGy) compared with control experiment, and the 2nd, 3,5,10,14,16,20 day gas production rate increment rate is respectively 42%, 34%, 23%, 17%, 14%, 13%, 9%.
Embodiment 2: change the irradiation intensity among the embodiment 1 into 6.51kGy, other operational condition is constant.The soluble chemical oxygen requirement increases by 277%, and median size is decreased to 60.64 μ m.After reaction finished, (0kGy) compared with control experiment, and the 2nd, 5,10,14,20 day gas production rate increment rate is respectively 21%, 18%, 23%, 19%, 20%.
Embodiment 3: change the irradiation intensity among the embodiment 1 into 11.24kGy, other operational condition is constant.The soluble chemical oxygen requirement increases by 423%, and median size is decreased to 55.61 μ m.After reaction finished, (0kGy) compared with control experiment, and the 2nd, 3,5,10,14,16,20 day gas production rate increment rate is respectively 33%, 40%, 38%, 41%, 35%, 34%, 36%.
Embodiment 4: change the irradiation intensity among the embodiment 1 into 19.40kGy, the anaerobic digestion reaction times changes 16 days into, and other operational condition is constant.The soluble chemical oxygen requirement increases by 452%, and median size is decreased to 56.03 μ m.After reaction finished, (0kGy) compared with control experiment, and the 3rd, 5,10,14,16 day gas production rate increment rate is respectively 23%, 29%, 41%, 26%, 24%.
Embodiment 5: change the size of mesh among the embodiment 1 into 35mm, irradiation intensity changes 28.1kGy into, and the soluble chemical oxygen requirement increases by 507%, and median size is decreased to 50.64 μ m.Mud behind the irradiation and seed sludge enter the static digestion reactor of anaeration in normal temperature in 3: 1 ratio.The temperature of anaerobic reaction and stirring intensity adopt constant temperature blender with magnetic force control, and temperature of reaction is 40 ± 1 ℃, and stirring velocity is 90 ± 10 rev/mins, and the anaerobic digestion reaction times changes 12 days into, and other operational condition is constant.After reaction finished, (0kGy) compared with control experiment, and the 2nd, 5,10,12 day gas production rate increment rate is respectively 31%, 22%, 20%, 19%.
Embodiment 6: change the size of mesh among the embodiment 1 into 12mm, irradiation intensity changes 24.51kGy into, and the soluble chemical oxygen requirement increases by 480%, and median size is decreased to 48.68 μ m.Mud behind the irradiation and seed sludge enter the static digestion reactor of high temperature anaerobic in 5: 1 ratio.The temperature of anaerobic reaction and stirring intensity adopt the control of water bath with thermostatic control vibrator, and temperature of reaction is 55 ± 1 ℃, and stirring velocity is 110 ± 10 rev/mins, and the anaerobic digestion reaction times changes 10 days into, and other operational condition is constant.After reaction finished, (0kGy) compared with control experiment, and the 2nd, 5,8,10 day gas production rate increment rate is respectively 45%, 38%, 35%, 34%.
Embodiment 7: change the size of mesh among the embodiment 1 into 18mm, irradiation intensity changes 19.4kGy into, and the soluble chemical oxygen requirement increases by 287%, and median size is decreased to 55.38 μ m.Mud behind the irradiation and seed sludge enter the static digestion reactor of anaeration in normal temperature in 4: 1 ratio.Other operational condition is constant.After reaction finished, (0kGy) compared with control experiment, and the 2nd, 5,10,14,20 day gas production rate increment rate is respectively 23%, 19%, 22%, 20%, 21%.
Embodiment 8: change the size of mesh among the embodiment 1 into 8mm, adopt in irradiation generation source
137(source strength is 500 to Cs, and 000Ci), irradiation intensity is 10.2kGy, and the soluble chemical oxygen requirement increases by 162%, and median size is decreased to 60.15 μ m.Mud behind the irradiation and seed sludge enter the static digestion reactor of anaerobism in 2: 1 ratio, and temperature of reaction is 25 ± 1 ℃.Other operational condition is constant.After reaction finished, (0kGy) compared with control experiment, and the 2nd, 5,10,14,20 day gas production rate increment rate is respectively 33%, 29%, 22%, 20%, 19%.
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1, a kind of method of quickening sewage plant sludge anaerobic digestion speed, its concrete steps are:
Step 1: the excess sludge size of mesh of taking from Sewage Plant is that the sieve of 5-50mm sieves, and makes the wherein bigger Impurity removal of particle;
Step 2: with the gamma-radiation with higher penetration performance it is carried out radiation treatment, the irradiation dose that mud is absorbed is controlled at 0~30kGy;
Step 3: mud behind the irradiation and seed sludge are in 1-5: carry out the anaerobic digestion reaction after 1 the ratio inoculation, its stirring velocity is controlled at 70-120 rev/min, and temperature of reaction is 20-60 ℃, reaction times 10-20 days.
2, the method for acceleration sewage plant sludge anaerobic digestion speed according to claim 1 is characterized in that in the step 1 behind the mud elder generation mixing after sieve.
3, the method for acceleration sewage plant sludge anaerobic digestion speed according to claim 1 is characterized in that rejecting the used size of mesh of impurity in the step 1 is 10-20mm.
4, the method for acceleration sewage plant sludge anaerobic digestion speed according to claim 1 is characterized in that the generation source of gamma-radiation described in the step 2 is adopted
137Cs or
60Co.
5, the method for acceleration sewage plant sludge anaerobic digestion speed according to claim 1, it is characterized in that in the step 3 that the mud behind the irradiation and seed sludge are in 1-3: 1 ratio is inoculated.
6, the method for acceleration sewage plant sludge anaerobic digestion speed according to claim 1 is characterized in that in the step 3 that postvaccinal mud enters the static digestion reactor of anaerobism and carries out the anaerobic digestion reaction.
7, the method for acceleration sewage plant sludge anaerobic digestion speed according to claim 1 is characterized in that stirring velocity is controlled at 80-100 rev/min in the step 3.
8, the method for acceleration sewage plant sludge anaerobic digestion speed according to claim 1 is characterized in that temperature of reaction is 30-50 ℃ in the step 3.
9, the method for acceleration sewage plant sludge anaerobic digestion speed according to claim 1 is characterized in that the temperature of anaerobic digestion reaction in the step 3 and stirring intensity adopt water bath with thermostatic control vibrator or constant temperature blender with magnetic force control.
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