JP2008253871A - Co-fermentation method - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a co-fermentation method which enables stable fermentation and has a high fermentation rate and a high biogas generation rate. <P>SOLUTION: In the co-fermentation method, thickened sludge generated in a water treatment plant having an aerobic biological treatment process is divided into return sludge and surplus sludge, the surplus sludge is mixed with an organic waste carried from the water treatment plant to perform methane fermentation treatment in a high-temperature methane fermentation tank at 50°C or higher, and residues generated by the methane fermentation treatment is subjected to solid-liquid separation treatment to send a separated liquid-side component to the aerobic biological treatment process. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2009,JPO&INPIT

Description

  The present invention relates to a co-fermentation method, and more particularly to a co-fermentation method that enables stable fermentation, has a high fermentation rate, and a high biogas generation rate.

  Conventionally, sewage is treated in a water treatment facility having an aerobic biological treatment process. Excess sludge generated in water treatment facilities has been incinerated or composted. In recent years, an attempt has been made to anaerobically ferment sewage sludge for the purpose of recovering useful substances.

  However, the amount of biogas obtained even when the raw water sludge is subjected to anaerobic fermentation is as small as 10 to 15 (L / L-raw material), which is not practical.

  In Non-Patent Document 1, organic waste generated outside water treatment facilities such as food waste, food processing residue, garbage, green farm waste or livestock waste is mixed with sewage sludge and subjected to anaerobic fermentation. A method is disclosed.

However, according to this method, the methane fermentation efficiency is increased, but it cannot be said that the generated amount is sufficient.
Sewerage Development Project, “Green Sludge Outline Flow“ Low Running Cost Type Mixed Digestion Gas Power Generation System ””, [online], Sewerage New Technology Promotion Organization, [Search on March 28, 2007], Internet <URL: http://www.jiwet-spirit21.jp/LOTUS/pdf/Green_sludge_energy.pdf>

  Therefore, an object of the present invention is to provide a co-fermentation method that enables stable fermentation, a high fermentation rate, and a high biogas generation rate.

  The other subject of this invention becomes clear by the following description.

  The above problems are solved by the following inventions.

(Claim 1)
The concentrated sludge generated in a water treatment facility having an aerobic biological treatment process is divided into return sludge and surplus sludge, and the surplus sludge is mixed with organic waste carried from outside the water treatment facility to be 50 ° C or higher. A methane fermentation process is performed in a high-temperature methane fermentation tank, a solid-liquid separation process is performed on the residue generated by the methane fermentation, and the separated liquid-side components are sent to the aerobic biological treatment process of the water treatment facility. A co-fermentation method characterized by that.

(Claim 2)
Organic waste brought in from outside the water treatment facility is at least one selected from food waste, food processing residue, garbage, green farm waste or livestock waste, and removes foreign matter from the organic waste After the step of carrying out and / or the crushing treatment step, the organic waste, a part of the digestive liquid in the high-temperature methane fermentation tank, and the concentrated sludge transferred from the water treatment facility are quantitatively mixed. The co-fermentation method according to claim 1, wherein the co-fermentation method is sent to a high-temperature methane fermenter.

(Claim 3)
When the organic waste, a part of the digested liquid in the high-temperature methane fermentation tank, and the concentrated sludge transferred from the water treatment facility are quantitatively mixed and sent to the high-temperature methane fermentation tank The co-fermentation method according to claim 2, wherein initial sludge of the water treatment facility is mixed.

(Claim 4)
The digested liquid discharged | emitted from the said high temperature type | mold methane fermenter denitrifies by ammonia stripping, and is sent to the aerobic biological treatment process of the said water treatment plant | facility after that. The co-fermentation method according to any one of the above.

  According to the present invention, it is possible to provide a co-fermentation method capable of stable fermentation, high fermentation rate, high biogas generation rate, and high digestion load of sewage treatment facility when the digestion liquid is stripped with ammonia. Can be greatly reduced, and good discharged water quality can be maintained.

  Embodiments of the present invention will be described below.

  FIG. 1 is a flow sheet showing an example of an apparatus for realizing the co-fermentation method of the present invention. In FIG. 1, reference numeral 1 denotes a contaminant removal means for removing contaminants contained in sewage, for example, a coarse screen or a fine screen. An eye screen or the like is used. The sewage from which impurities have been removed is sent to the initial settling tank 2 for solid-liquid separation. The solid-liquid separated sewage is sent to the reaction tank 3 which is a means for realizing the aerobic biological treatment process, and biological treatment with aerobic microorganisms is performed. The sewage bioreacted in the reaction tank 3 is sent to the gravity sedimentation type final settlement tank 4 together with the microbial sludge, and is solid-liquid separated into sludge and treated water. The treated water is sent to the advanced treatment means 5 and further subjected to advanced treatment such as activated carbon treatment and sterilization treatment.

  Examples of the water treatment facility having an aerobic biological treatment process used in the present invention include a standard activated sludge method, a facility based on a modified method thereof, a facility based on oxidation ditch, and the like, and any treatment method may be adopted.

  The concentrated sludge separated in the final settling tank 4 is divided into return sludge and excess sludge, and the return sludge is returned to the reaction tank 3 through the return pipe 40.

  The concentrated sludge preferably has a moisture content in the range of 95 to 98%, and an iron-based chemical can be added as necessary. In addition, because of the latter methane fermentation, polymer-based and aluminum-based chemicals are not preferable.

  On the other hand, in the present invention, the organic waste carried from outside the water treatment facility is preferably at least one selected from food waste, food processing residue, garbage, green farm waste, or livestock waste. Two or more kinds may be mixed.

  Organic waste generated outside the water treatment facility is accepted as biomass for methane fermentation. At this time, first, the pretreatment means 6 crushes, grinds, and removes foreign matter. It is for making it the property which does not have trouble in methane fermentation.

  In foreign matter removal, metal pieces, polymer compounds (plastics), glass pieces, batteries, etc. are automatically removed artificially if necessary.

  In the crushing and grinding steps, the average particle size of the organic waste is pulverized to less than 1 mm, preferably less than 0.1 mm.

  The properties of the organic waste after pulverization vary depending on the moisture content and the C / N ratio, and it is necessary to adjust the biomass source in order to perform stable methane fermentation.

  This adjustment is performed in the storage tank 7. The role of the storage tank used in the present invention is as follows.

  First, it functions as a quantitative buffer tank for quantitatively mixing organic waste as biomass with concentrated sludge. 2ndly, it functions as a tank which mixes a part of digestive liquid in the methane fermentation tank 9, and performs a pre-fermentation process. At this time, in order to prevent acid fermentation from proceeding and excessive acidification in the tank, it is also important to use the pH buffering property of the digestive juice. The storage tank 7 is required to keep the temperature in the same manner as the methane fermentation tank 9 and preferably to control the temperature.

  The method of controlling the amount of digestive juice mixed may be just mixing with a metering pump when stable and homogeneous organic waste is carried in, but the pH tends to decrease (for example, when it falls below 5-4) Etc.), it is preferable to take measures to increase the digestive juice mixture amount.

  The capacity of the storage tank 7 is preferably designed so that the residence time of the organic waste in the tank is at least 5 hours.

  The organic waste adjusted in the storage tank 7 is sent to the mixing unit 8 and mixed with surplus sludge that is part of the concentrated sludge. The mixing means in the mixing unit 8 is not particularly limited.

  In the present invention, it is preferable to mix the first settling sludge of the first settling tank 2 into the mixing unit 8. This is because not only can sludge generated at sewage treatment facilities be used as an organic resource, but there is also an effect of increasing the amount of biogas generated compared to concentrated sludge alone.

  In this invention, the biomass raw material mixed by the mixing part 8 is sent to the methane fermentation tank 9, and a methane fermentation process is carried out.

  The methane fermentation temperature in this invention is 50 degreeC or more, Preferably it is 55 degreeC or more, and is what is called high temperature fermentation. In low temperature fermentation at 35 ° C. as in Non-Patent Document 1, there is a problem that the amount of biogas generated is small. Since the biomass material is mixed with concentrated sludge, organic waste generated outside the water treatment facility, and final sludge, stable fermentation is possible by co-fermentation. Also, high-temperature fermentation with a high fermentation rate and high biogas generation rate is possible. The method for maintaining the methane fermentation temperature at 55 ° C. or higher is not particularly limited.

  The digested liquid produced after the methane fermentation is sent to the solid-liquid separation means 10 and separated into the digested liquid and the solid content. In the illustrated example, it is returned to the previous stage of the reaction vessel 3.

  In the present invention, in the process of sending the digested liquid to the reaction tank 3, it is preferable to denitrify by ammonia stripping and then send it to the aerobic biological treatment step of the water treatment facility. This is because ammonia stripping of the digested liquid can greatly reduce the load of advanced treatment at the sewage treatment facility and maintain good discharged water quality.

  Below, an example of the preferable apparatus which performs ammonia stripping is demonstrated based on FIG.

  The digestive fluid is introduced into the circulation tank 102 by the pump 101. The circulation tank 102 is installed on a gantry 103, and an ammonia diffusion tower 104 is provided above the circulation tank 102, so that it can be configured in a tower form.

  As an example of the ammonia diffusion tower 104, a porous plate 105 is provided inside, and the porous plate 105 is filled with various fillers 106 formed of resin, metal, and ceramic.

  A spray nozzle 107 is provided above the filler 106 so that the digestive juice can be sprayed onto the filler 106.

  The spray nozzle 107 is connected to a circulation pump 109 via a pipe 108. In FIG. 2, the digestive juice sprayed on the filler 106 is stored in the circulation tank 102 via the connection pipe 110 and is sent to the spray nozzle 107 by the circulation pump 109 to circulate. In some cases, it is discharged without going through the tank.

  Reference numeral 111 denotes a compressor or blower for introducing air into the ammonia diffusion tower.

  The digested liquid from which the ammonia component has been removed by the ammonia stripping device is discharged as a denitrifying digested liquid and returned to the front stage of the reaction tank 3.

  Examples of the present invention will be described below, but the present invention is not limited to such examples.

Example 1
Initial sludge and final sludge were collected from the sewage treatment plant using the standard activated sludge method. The solid content concentration, ignition loss, and pH of the primary sedimentation sludge and final sedimentation sludge were the results shown in Table 1 below.

  On the other hand, household garbage was made into a paste with a hydraulic garbage compression sorter (Yuken Industry Co., Ltd.). The solid content concentration (105 ° C. constant weight) of this paste was 18 wt%, and the 600 ° C. ignition loss reduction rate was 87 wt%.

  An experiment was conducted in which initial sludge, final sludge, and garbage were added to a 10 L fully mixed high temperature (55 ° C.) methane fermentation experiment tank containing milking cow manure once in a total amount of 600 ml once a day. (40% food waste, 20% primary sludge, 40% final sludge)

  The main fermenter has a structure in which 600 ml of biomass is introduced and excess amount in the tank flows out of the tank due to natural overflow. The amount of biogas generated in the methane fermentation test for 15 to 20 days was as shown in FIG.

  The following experiment was performed for comparison.

Comparative experiment 1
In Example 1, a methane fermentation experiment was conducted by administering only garbage in a high temperature type (55 ° C.). The result is shown in FIG.

Comparative experiment 2
In Example 1, a high temperature type (55 ° C.) was used, and only the final sludge was administered to conduct a methane fermentation experiment. The result is shown in FIG.

Comparative experiment 3
In Example 1, a methane fermentation experiment was conducted in the same manner except that the fermentation temperature was changed to 37 ° C. The result is shown in FIG.

  From FIG. 3, in the case of charging only garbage in the comparative experiment 1, the pH drops rapidly after 10 days of the test (7.5 to 5 or less), and even if the biomass charging is stopped from the 15th day, it is finally 4 The methane fermentation stopped after dropping to 0.0.

  In the final sludge system of Comparative Experiment 2, the pH was maintained at about 7.5 and methane fermentation could be continued, but the amount of generated biogas was greatly reduced.

  In the medium temperature (37 ° C.) fermentation of Comparative Experiment 3, the amount of generated biogas was not sufficient.

  In contrast, in the present invention, the amount of generated biogas is found to be stable and high.

Example 2
In Example 1, an experiment for stripping the digestive fluid with ammonia was performed. Denitrification efficiency by ammonia stripping improved because of high temperature methane fermentation.

  Therefore, when the digested liquid is stripped of ammonia, the load of advanced treatment at the sewage treatment facility can be greatly reduced, and good discharged water quality can be maintained.

  On the other hand, the digested liquid of Comparative Experiment 3 was subjected to ammonia stripping, but the denitrification efficiency was inferior to that of Example 2 by about 30% because the temperature was low.

The flow sheet which shows an example of the apparatus which implement | achieves the co-fermentation method of this invention An example of a preferred apparatus for performing ammonia stripping The graph which shows the result of an Example and a comparative experiment

Explanation of symbols

1: Contaminant removing means 2: Initial sedimentation tank 3: Reaction tank 4: Final sedimentation tank 5: Advanced treatment means 6: Pretreatment means 7: Storage tank 8: Mixing unit 9: Methane fermentation 10: Solid-liquid separation means 100: Liquid feed line 101: pump 102: circulation tank 103: mount 104: ammonia diffusion tower 105: perforated plate 106: filler 107: spray nozzle 108: pipe 109: circulation pump 110: connection pipe 111: compressor, blower

Claims (4)

  The concentrated sludge generated in a water treatment facility having an aerobic biological treatment process is divided into return sludge and surplus sludge, and the surplus sludge is mixed with organic waste carried from outside the water treatment facility to be 50 ° C or higher. A methane fermentation process is performed in a high-temperature methane fermentation tank, a solid-liquid separation process is performed on the residue generated by the methane fermentation, and the separated liquid-side components are sent to the aerobic biological treatment process of the water treatment facility. A co-fermentation method characterized by the above.   Organic waste brought in from outside the water treatment facility is at least one selected from food waste, food processing residue, garbage, green farm waste or livestock waste, and removes foreign matter from the organic waste After the step of carrying out and / or the crushing treatment step, the organic waste, a part of the digestive liquid in the high-temperature methane fermentation tank, and the concentrated sludge transferred from the water treatment facility are quantitatively mixed. The co-fermentation method according to claim 1, wherein the co-fermentation method is sent to a high-temperature methane fermenter.   When the organic waste, a part of the digested liquid in the high-temperature methane fermentation tank, and the concentrated sludge transferred from the water treatment facility are quantitatively mixed and sent to the high-temperature methane fermentation tank The co-fermentation method according to claim 2, wherein initial sludge of the water treatment facility is mixed.   The digested liquid discharged | emitted from the said high temperature type | mold methane fermenter denitrifies by ammonia stripping, and is sent to the aerobic biological treatment process of the said water treatment plant | facility after that. The co-fermentation method according to any one of the above.

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