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Revealing hydrodynamics and energy efficiency of mixing for high-solid anaerobic digestion of waste activated sludge

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WASTE MANAGEMENT
卷 121, 期 -, 页码 1-10

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PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.wasman.2020.11.054

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High-solid anaerobic digestion; Waste activated sludge; Impeller type; Computational fluid dynamics; Tracing experiment; Energy efficiency

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  1. Natural Science Foundation of Jiangsu Province [BK20180633]
  2. China Postdoctoral Science Foundation [2020M671379]
  3. Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities [JUSRP11936]
  4. National Natural Science Foundation of China [51978313]
  5. Pre-research Fund of Jiangsu Collaborative Innovation Center of Technology and Material of Water Treatment [XTCXSZ2019-3]

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This study investigated the hydrodynamics and digestion performance of horizontal anaerobic systems equipped with double-bladed impeller and ribbon impeller. It was found that the ribbon impeller exhibited superior mixing performance and energy efficiency outputs, making it proficient for high-solid anaerobic digestion.
Anaerobic digestion is a feasible and promising technique to deal with emerging waste activated sludge issues. In this work, the hydrodynamics and digestion performance of horizontal anaerobic systems equipped with double-bladed impeller and ribbon impeller were investigated. Simulation using computational fluid dynamics technique visually showcased the favorable mixing status implementing ribbon impeller. The mixing modes were considered as the major motivation for the difference of mixing efficiencies. Tracing experiment indicated that the minimum thorough mixing time with ribbon impeller was 20 min at a rotation speed of 50 rpm, whereas it was 360 min for the double-bladed impeller under similar conditions. The superior mixing performance of ribbon impeller resulted in better anaerobic digestion and energy efficiency outputs. The digester employing ribbon impeller obtained an ultimate biogas yield of 340.38 +/- 15.91 mL/g VS (corresponding methane yield of 210.34 +/- 7.55 mL/g VS) and produced a surplus energy of 16.23 +/- 0.76 MJ/(m(3).d). This study thus ascertained that ribbon impeller was proficient for high-solid anaerobic digestion and it will prominently benefit future system designs. (C) 2020 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

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