Anaerobic digestion

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Anaerobic digestion − an introduction to process design

Anaerobic digestion (AD) is the most extensively employed sludge stabilisation process and, as with most sludge and wastewater unit processes, the design and performance of AD depends on the feed characteristics. Professor Simon Judd explains

Sludge treatment - the anaerobic digestion process

Anaerobic digestion (AD) is the most extensively employed sludge stabilisation process, and generates a methane gas product

Biochemical pathways for converting organic matter to biogas products by anaerobic degestion

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Sludge treatment − how does anaerobic digestion work?

Anaerobic digestion is a multi-step biochemical process comprising hydrolysis, acidogenesis, acetogenesis and methanogenesis

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Challenges to anaerobic digestion in sludge treatment

Two widely recognised operational challenges to anaerobic digestion operation are foaming and over-acidification

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Designing anaerobic digestion systems for sludge treatment

Anaerobic digestion can be a single or multiple tank process, and employ different conditions of stirring and temperature

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A flow diagram showing the fate water flows and heat transfer components of a combined heat and power engine, used to recover waste heat from thermal processes. Two heat streams are generated, a high-grade stream (hot, pressurised steam) and a low-grade stream (heated water), as well as electrical energy.

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Flowsheet showing how anaerobic integrates with downstream processes of dewatering and hydrothermal treatment of the digestate stream, along with combined heat and power (CHP) for the biogas, for resource recovery

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Biochemical pathways for nitrogen-containing species. Ammonia is converted to nitrogen either via nitrate (nitrification followed by denitrification), nitrogen oxide (nitritation followed by denitritation) or via the Annamox process.

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Anaerobic digestion optimization through thermal hydrolysis pre-treatment

Pre-treatment of sludge by thermal hydrolysis upstream of anaerobic digestion is used to improve AD efficiency. A study looked at (pre-)commissioning data for a full-scale AD installation undergoing upgrading with TH to assess the basis for optimisation.

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