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Thickening, dewatering & drying

Sludge drying refers to processes where moisture is removed from sludge as water vapour. These processes often require pre-treatment ('conditioning'). With sludge thickening or dewatering, moisture is removed as a liquid.

Thickening, dewatering & drying related videos

Solar dryer, OTEX Source: David Fang / YouTube

Solar dryer, OTEX

A video to demonstrate the principles of the OTEX solar sludge dryer.

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Thickening, dewatering & drying features and blogs

HTC/AD integration flowsheet
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Co-processing of sewage digestate by hydrothermal carbonisation

Hydrothermal carbonisation (HTC) can be used to co-process anaerobic digestion (AD) digestate and lignocellulosic (or plant-based) feedstocks to improve the the hydrochar product quality. This AD waste co-processing route has been studied at bench scale. Read article

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