JP2011189290A - Sludge drying method - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a sludge drying method capable of reducing the cost of deodorization by reducing the amount of odorous gas generated by the process in the sludge drying process. <P>SOLUTION: In the sludge drying method, sludge is dried by supplying a predetermined carrier gas to the sludge which is indirectly heated in an indirect heating dryer and discharging moisture evaporated from the sludge with the carrier gas from the indirect heating dryer. The odorous gas derived from the sludge is introduced inside the indirect heating dryer with the carrier gas. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2011,JPO&INPIT

Description

  The present invention relates to a sludge drying method in which sludge is heated to evaporate and dry the contained water.

  Conventionally, surplus sludge generated mainly in the sewage treatment process has been dumped into the ocean or disposed of in landfills. However, because environmental protection policies are being promoted on a global scale, surplus sludge has been prohibited from being dumped into the ocean, and landfill sites have also been restricted, making it difficult to dispose of surplus sludge in recent years. It has become to.

  Therefore, in order to extend the life of limited landfills, the sludge is incinerated to reduce the volume, and the incinerated ash is disposed of in landfills, or the sludge is heated to dry sludge and effectively used for soil improvement. It has become like this. When incinerating sludge, a drying process is performed in which the moisture content of the sludge is about 40% with a dryer before the sludge to be treated is put into the incinerator. For example, in the sludge treatment methods described in Patent Documents 1 and 2, the sludge is heated and dried using an air-drying type dryer.

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  However, in the conventional process, when sludge is heated in a dryer, a large amount of high-concentration odor gas mainly composed of ammonia gas is generated, and since the generated odor gas has a high concentration, a dedicated combustion deodorizer is used. Deodorized by burning.

  In the conventional process, sludge storage equipment such as a dewatered sludge hopper or a dry sludge hopper that temporarily stores sludge as an object to be dried is generally installed as a peripheral device. Odor gas is also generated from dehydrated sludge and dried sludge in the hopper. Since the odor gas generated from these peripheral devices is also high in concentration, the odor gas is generally deodorized by burning it using a combustion type deodorizing device using a combustion burner or a catalyst.

  However, in the conventional process, since the amount of odor gas to be processed is large, the consumption of fuel and electric power required for the deodorizing process becomes excessive, the processing cost increases, and there is a problem in terms of environment.

  The present invention has been made in view of such circumstances, and an object of the present invention is to provide a sludge drying method capable of reducing the amount of odorous gas generated from the process in the sludge drying process and reducing the deodorization cost.

  The sludge drying method according to the present invention supplies a predetermined carrier gas to sludge heated indirectly in an indirect heating dryer, and dries the sludge by discharging moisture evaporating from the sludge from the indirect heating dryer together with the carrier gas. In the sludge drying method, the odor gas derived from the sludge is introduced into the indirect heating dryer together with the carrier gas.

  According to the present invention, the following effects (i) and (ii) can be obtained.

(i) Reduction of deodorized gas amount The indirect heating dryer dries the object to be dried by bringing the object to be dried into contact with the surface of the steam jacket, raising the temperature of the object to be dried, and evaporating the moisture. If the vapor evaporating from the material to be dried is not discharged quickly, the drying efficiency will deteriorate, so the carrier gas will flow inside the dryer, the vapor evaporated from the material to be dried will be discharged, and the vapor will be condensed and separated with a scrubber. Only releases to the atmosphere. By using the odor gas generated in the process for the carrier gas, the total amount of the odor gas that needs to be deodorized can be reduced as compared with the case where the exhaust gas of the carrier gas and the odor gas generated in the process are made independent.

(ii) Reduction of energy cost required for deodorization The total amount of odor gas generated in the sludge drying process and the carrier gas of the sludge dryer varies depending on the process, but generally the steam consumed by the sludge dryer is generated. In many cases, the amount of odor gas is larger than the amount of combustion air required for the combustion burner, and it was impossible to deodorize the odor gas as combustion air for a steam boiler. Since the amount of generated gas is reduced, the odor gas can be burned as a part of the combustion air of the boiler, and it is not necessary to provide a combustion burner or a deodorization device dedicated to deodorization.

The block diagram which shows the outline | summary of the sludge processing system used for the sludge drying method which concerns on embodiment of this invention. The block diagram which shows the outline | summary of the sludge processing system used for the sludge drying method of a comparative example.

  Preferred modes for carrying out the present invention will be described below.

  (1) In the sludge drying method of the present invention, a predetermined carrier gas is supplied to the sludge heated indirectly in the indirect heating dryer, and the water evaporating from the sludge is discharged from the indirect heating dryer together with the carrier gas. In the method for drying sludge, the odor gas derived from the sludge is introduced into the indirect heating dryer together with the carrier gas.

  In the present invention, since the odor gas derived from sludge is used as a part of the carrier gas, the amount of the deodorized gas that needs to be deodorized by using the dedicated deodorizer on the downstream side is reduced accordingly. In particular, the indirect heating type dryer used in the present invention has a smaller absolute amount of odorous gas (about 10 to 20% by volume) than the conventional direct heating type airflow dryers of Patent Documents 1 and 2, The benefits of weight loss are great. For this reason, the load applied to the deodorizing device is reduced, the operating cost and the maintenance / inspection cost are reduced, the life of the device is extended, and a sufficient driving operation can be continued.

  (2) In the above (1), the mixed gas in which the sludge-derived odor gas and the carrier gas are mixed is burned as combustion air of a steam boiler or a heat medium heating burner serving as a heat source of the indirect heating dryer. It is preferable to deodorize.

  In the present invention, the mixed carrier gas containing the odor gas is burned as the combustion air of the steam boiler or the heating medium heating burner, so the burned odor gas is deodorized, and the load on the downstream deodorization device is reduced accordingly. The

  (3) In either of the above (1) or (2), the odor gas derived from the sludge is an odor gas generated from the dehydrated sludge in the dewatered cake hopper and an odor gas generated from the dried sludge in the dry sludge hopper. It is preferable to contain.

  In the present invention, for example, the odor gas generated in the process of the dehydrated cake hopper can be collected and used as a carrier gas for the dryer. Dehydrated sludge (dehydrated cake) spontaneously ferments during storage even at room temperature and generates a large amount of high-concentration odor gas. This large amount of odor gas can be used as drying carrier gas or burner combustion air.

  Further, in the present invention, for example, odorous gas generated in the process of the dry sludge hopper can be collected and used as a carrier gas for the dryer. Dry sludge has a moisture content of about 40 to 20%, and natural fermentation is unlikely to occur even if the dried sludge is left, but the dried sludge that has been heated inside the dryer to evaporate water is discharged from the dryer. Since the temperature is about 50 ° C. and the steam is discharged in a state where steam is discharged, high-concentration ammonia or the like is diffused as odor gas from the heated dry sludge. These odor gases can be used as drying carrier gas or burner combustion air.

  Hereinafter, a preferred embodiment of the present invention will be described in comparison with a conventional process with reference to the accompanying drawings.

  As shown in FIG. 1, the sludge treatment system 1 of the present embodiment is for drying excess sludge generated in a sewage treatment plant or the like, and includes a dehydrated cake hopper 2, an indirect heating dryer 3, a condenser 4, and a fan 5. , A dry sludge hopper 6, a steam boiler 7, an air supply device 8, a deodorizing device 9, a burner fuel supply pump P1, and a burner combustion air supply pump P2. These devices and devices are connected to each other by lines L1 to L11 having valves such as on-off valves, flow rate control valves, switching valves and pumps or blowers (not shown), and unit operation is performed on sludge and odor gas that are processing objects. To do. The entire sludge treatment system 1 is comprehensively managed and controlled by a process computer (not shown).

  The dehydrated cake hopper 2 is a facility for temporarily storing dehydrated cake (sludge that has been dehydrated) input from an upper opening by an input device (not shown), and supplying the dehydrated cake to the dryer 3 in a fixed amount. The dehydrated cake stored in the dehydrated cake storage hopper 2 has a water content of approximately 80%, and when the dehydrated cake is stored, it spontaneously ferments even at room temperature to generate odor gas. The dewatering cake hopper 2 has a damper that can be opened and closed at the bottom, and when the lower damper is opened, the dewatering cake falls on the line L1. The dehydrated cake transport line L1 is composed of a shooter or a belt conveyor connected to the inlet side of the dryer 3, and guides and transports the dehydrated cake to the dryer 3.

  An odor gas discharge line L2 is connected to the upper portion of the dewatering cake hopper 2. The odor gas discharge line L2 merges with a line L8 for supplying air as a carrier gas from the air supply device 8 to the dryer 3. That is, the odor gas flowing through the line L2 merges with the air flow in the line L8, and is introduced into the dryer 3 as a part of the carrier gas along with the air flow.

  The air supply device 8 supplies dry air as a carrier gas into the rotary kiln of the indirect heating device 3 via the carrier gas supply line L8. The air supply device 8 incorporates a flow rate adjusting valve controlled by a controller (not shown) so that the air supply amount can be adjusted with high accuracy in accordance with the status of the processing process of the entire system 1.

  The dried sludge hopper 6 is a facility for temporarily storing the dried sludge discharged from the dryer 3 with the inlet side connected to the dryer 3 via the dried sludge discharge line L3. The moisture content of the dried sludge is generally about 40 to 20%, and natural fermentation hardly occurs even if the dried sludge is left untreated. However, since the dried sludge has been heated inside the dryer 3, the temperature is about 50 ° C. when the sludge is discharged from the dryer 3, and the steam is discharged with steam. Therefore, high-concentration ammonia or the like is diffused as odor gas from the heated dry sludge.

  An odor gas discharge line L6 is connected to the upper part of the dried sludge hopper 6. The odor gas discharge line L6 merges with a line L8 for supplying air as a carrier gas from the air supply device 8 to the dryer 3 in the same manner as the line L2 of the dehydrated cake hopper 2 described above. That is, the odor gas flowing through the line L6 merges with the air flow in the line L8, and is introduced into the dryer 3 as part of the carrier gas along with the air flow.

  The indirect heating dryer 3 is a device that indirectly heats sludge to be treated to dry the sludge. Here, “indirect heating” means a method in which the sludge to be treated and the heat source are separated by a partition made of metal, ceramic, or the like and heated by radiation / heat transfer through the partition. On the other hand, “direct heating” refers to a heating method that introduces a gas (combustion gas, etc.) serving as a heat source into a room into which sludge is charged, such as the air dryer described in Patent Documents 1 and 2. means.

  The indirect heating dryer 3 is a horizontal rotary kiln apparatus having a rotary kiln having a horizontal rotary shaft and a heating jacket surrounding the rotary kiln. In this embodiment, a horizontal rotary kiln device is used as the indirect heating dryer 3, but the present invention is not limited to this, and other types of indirect methods such as a fixed bed method or a rotary screw feeder method are used. A heating device can be used. The rotary kiln of the dryer is charged with the dehydrated cake that is fed from the dehydrated cake hopper 2 on the line L1. Steam supplied from the steam boiler 7 through the steam supply line L7 is introduced into the heating jacket, and the dehydrated cake in the rotary kiln is heated. By using such an indirect heating dryer 3, the sludge is indirectly heated without direct contact with the sludge, the water contained in the dewatered cake is efficiently evaporated to dry the sludge, and ammonia or methyl Odor gas containing mercaptans and the like can be effectively volatilized from the dehydrated cake.

  Moisture evaporated inside the dryer 3 is discharged from the dryer 3 as evaporated vapor through the upper discharge line L4, and the carrier gas is dried so that the evaporated vapor is quickly discharged outside the dryer. The vapor is flown inside, and the vaporized vapor is sent to the condenser 4 at the subsequent stage, where the vaporized vapor is cooled and condensed, and discharged as a liquid.

  The steam boiler 7 has a steam generation tube and a combustion burner inside, and supplies the generated steam to the heating jacket of the dryer 3 as a heat source. The combustion burner of the steam boiler 7 communicates with a burner fuel supply line L10 having a pump P1 and a burner combustion air supply line L11 having a pump P2. Fuel gas is sent from a fuel tank (not shown) from the burner fuel supply line L10. Burner combustion air is sent from the air supply line L11 for burner combustion from the air supply device 8 or another air supply device (not shown). An odor gas line L53, which will be described later, is joined to the air supply line L11, and a part of the carrier gas including the odor gas coming out of the dryer 3 is mixed with the burner combustion air.

  The condenser 4 and the fan 5 are arranged in a carrier gas discharge line L4 from the dryer 3. The condenser 4 condenses the moisture contained in the carrier gas and separates the gas and liquid. The gas after the gas-liquid separation is sent to the downstream lines L51, L52, L9 by the fan 5 and reused as a carrier gas, mixed with burner combustion air, or burned, or a dedicated deodorizing device. 9 is deodorized. That is, a part of the non-condensable gas (carrier gas containing odor gas) drawn from the condenser 4 by the fan 5 passes through the return line L51 and joins the air flow in the air supply line L8, and is again carrier gas. And returned to the dryer 3. In this way, a part of the carrier gas circulates in a circulation circuit composed of the dryer 3 → the line L 4 → the condenser 4 → the line L 5 → the fan 5 → the line L 51 → the line L 8 → the dryer 3.

  On the other hand, the other part of the carrier gas coming out of the dryer 3 is sent to the steam boiler 7 through the gas lines L52-L53, mixed with the combustion air, and burned by the burner. Further, the remaining part (excess carrier gas) of the carrier gas that has come out of the dryer 3 is sent to the deodorizing device 9 through the gas lines L52-L9 and subjected to deodorization treatment.

  The deodorizing device 9 is arranged on the most downstream side of the sludge treatment system 1 and mixes the carrier gas (including odorous gas) coming out of the dryer 3 via lines L4 → L5 → L52 → L9 with combustion air. This is a dedicated detoxification facility that releases combustion exhaust gas that has been burned and deodorized into the atmosphere. The combustion air to the deodorizing device 9 may be supplied from the carrier gas supply device 8 or may be supplied from an air supply device (not shown) different from the device 8.

  Next, the above-described embodiment process of the present invention will be described in comparison with the comparative example process described below.

  As shown in FIG. 2, the sludge treatment system 100 used in the comparative example process includes a dehydrated cake hopper 102, an indirect heating dryer 103, a condenser 104, a fan 105, a dried sludge hopper 106, a steam boiler 107, and a carrier gas supply device. (Air supply device) 108 and deodorizing device 109 are provided. These apparatuses / devices 102 to 109 have substantially the same configurations and functions as the apparatuses / devices 2 to 9 of the above-described embodiment. In addition, the code | symbol L101, L102, L103, L104, L105, L106, L107, L108, L109, L110, L111 in a figure is a dehydration cake line, an odor gas line, a dry sludge line, a carrier gas discharge line, a non-condensable gas. A line, an odor gas line, a heating steam line, a carrier gas supply line, a deodorization line, a burner fuel supply line, and a burner combustion air supply line are shown.

  In the system 100 of the comparative example process, not only a part of the carrier gas (including odor gas) coming out of the dryer 103 is sent to the deodorizing device 109 via the line L104 → L105 → L152 → L109, Odor gas generated in the dehydrated cake hopper 102 is sent to the deodorizer 109 via the line L102 → L109, and the odor gas generated in the dry sludge hopper 106 is sent to the deodorizer 109 via the line L106 → L109. These odorous gases are sent and deodorized by the deodorizing device 109 in a lump. For this reason, the deodorizing apparatus 109 of the comparative example process has a larger amount of odor gas to be processed than the deodorizing apparatus 9 of the example process, and a larger load is applied.

For example, in the comparative example process, when the carrier gas supply amount to the dryer 103 is 10 m ³ / h, the amount of odorous gas entering the deodorizer 109 from the dryer 103 via lines L104 → L105 → L152 → L109. Is 10m ³ / h, and the amount of odorous gas entering the deodorizer 109 from the dehydrated cake hopper 102 via the line L102 → L109 is 1 m ³ / h, and the deodorizer from the dried sludge hopper 106 via the line L106 → L109. The amount of odorous gas entering 109 is 1 m ³ / h, and the total amount of these odorous gases is 12 m ³ / h.

On the other hand, in the embodiment process, when the carrier gas supply amount to the dryer 3 is 10 m ³ / h, the odor enters the deodorizer 9 from the dryer 3 via the lines L4 → L5 → L52 → L9. The gas amount is only 10 m ³ / h. As described above, the example process can reduce the amount of odor gas to be processed by the deodorizing apparatus by 2 m ³ / h as compared with the comparative example process.

Moreover, in the embodiment process, the odor gas from the dehydrated cake hopper 2 via the line L2 → L8 and the odor gas from the dry sludge hopper 6 via the line L6 → L8 are introduced into the dryer 3 as carrier gases, respectively. Therefore, there is an advantage that the amount of air supplied from the carrier gas supply device 8 can be reduced to 8 m ³ / h.

  That is, in the embodiment process, a part of the non-condensable gas (carrier gas including odor gas) drawn from the condenser 4 by the fan 5 passes through the return line L51 and joins the air flow in the air supply line L8. Then, it is returned again into the dryer 3 as a carrier gas, and another part of the gas is sent to the steam boiler 7 through the odor gas line L52-L53 and burned in the burner, and the remaining part of the other gas. Is sent to the deodorizing device 9 through the deodorizing line L52-L9 and deodorized. In this way, a part of the carrier gas coming out of the dryer 3 is returned to the dryer 3 and is always circulated through a circulation circuit including the dryer 3. However, since the non-condensable gas from the condenser 3 is saturated vapor, if the entire amount is circulated, condensation will occur at the inlet of the dryer 3 and adversely affect the drying performance. It is necessary to raise the temperature of the gas and put it into the dryer 3.

  Therefore, in order to suck the odor gas from the dry sludge hopper 6 or the dehydrated cake hopper 2, the entire carrier gas inside the dryer 3 is not circulated, but a part of the extraction gas is discharged as the extraction gas, and the steam boiler 7 is burned as part of the combustion air and deodorized.

  Therefore, the amount of extracted gas becomes equal to the amount of odorous gas generated at a place other than the dryer 3, and the odor concentration becomes higher, but the amount of extracted gas can be smaller than that of the system of the comparative example system shown in FIG. become. In the case of combustion deodorization by burner combustion, there is no problem even if the odor concentration is high, but the amount of odor gas that can be treated cannot be more than the amount of combustion air of the burner. In the trial calculation, the amount of burner combustion air for generating steam necessary for a general sludge drying process can be burned and deodorized by the burner of the steam boiler 7 by reducing the amount of treated odor gas as described above. .

  In the above embodiment, the example of using superheated steam as the heat source of the indirect heating type sludge dryer has been described, but the present invention is not limited to this, and other heat medium other than superheated steam is used. You may make it use.

  Note that the present invention is not limited to the above-described embodiment as it is, and can be embodied by modifying the constituent elements without departing from the scope of the invention in the implementation stage. Further, various inventions can be formed by appropriately combining a plurality of constituent elements disclosed in the embodiment. For example, some components may be deleted from all the components shown in the embodiment. Furthermore, you may combine suitably the component covering different embodiment. A specific modification is as follows.

In the above embodiment, the odor gas from the dehydrated cake hopper and the dried sludge hopper is used as the carrier gas as the odor gas generation source other than the inside of the dryer, but the odor gas from the odor gas generation source is also used as the carrier gas. It can also be used as

In the said embodiment, although sludge was used as to-be-dried material, it is not restricted to this, It can apply also in the drying process of the to-be-dried material which generate | occur | produces other odor gas.

2,102 ... Dehydrated cake hopper, 3,103 ... Indirect heating dryer, 4,104 ... Condenser,
5,105 ... Fan, 6,106 ... Dry sludge hopper, 7,107 ... Steam boiler,
8,108 ... carrier gas supply device (air supply device), 9,109 ... deodorizing device,
L2 ... dehydrated cake odor gas line, L3 ... dry sludge line, L4 ... evaporative vapor line, L5 ... non-condensable gas line, L6 ... dry sludge odor gas line, L7 ... steam line,
L8 ... Air supply line, L9 ... Deodorization treatment line,
L10 ... Burner fuel line, L11 ... Burner combustion air line,
L51 ... circulation carrier gas line, L52, L53 ... odor gas line,
P1, P2 ... Pumps.

Claims (3)

In the sludge drying method of drying the sludge by supplying a predetermined carrier gas to the sludge heated indirectly in the indirect heating dryer, and discharging the moisture evaporated from the sludge from the indirect heating dryer together with the carrier gas,
An odor gas derived from the sludge is introduced into the indirect heating dryer together with the carrier gas. Deodorizing by mixing a mixed gas in which the sludge-derived odor gas and the carrier gas are mixed as combustion air of a steam boiler or a heating medium heating burner serving as a heat source of the indirect heating dryer. The sludge drying method according to claim 1. The odor gas derived from the sludge includes odor gas generated from the dehydrated sludge in the dewatered cake hopper and odor gas generated from the dried sludge in the dry sludge hopper. The sludge drying method according to Item.

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