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- The high water content in sewage sludge creates challenges for its treatment and disposal, prompting research into more efficient drying methods.* -
- Ultrasonic treatment shows promise in enhancing sludge drying by accelerating water evaporation and improving drying efficiency, particularly when adjusting parameters like power and temperature.* -
- Results suggest that using ultrasound for a short duration (like 3 minutes) at lower temperatures can yield superior drying characteristics, making this method a cost-effective solution for sludge management.*
Article Abstract
The high water content of sewage sludge has engendered many inconveniences to its treatment and disposal. While ultrasonic takes on unique advantages on the sludge drying because of its high ultrasonic power, mighty penetrating capability and the ability of causing cavitations. Thus this research studies the characteristics influences of ultrasonic bring to the sludge drying and effects of the exposure time, ultrasonic generator power, temperatures of ultrasonic and drying temperature on the drying characteristics of dewatered sludge. Results indicate that ultrasonic pretreatment could speed up evaporation of the free water in sludge surface and help to end the drying stage with constant speed. In addition, ultrasonic treatment can effectively improve the sludge drying efficiency which could be more evident with the rise of the ultrasonic power (100-250 W), ultrasonic temperature and drying temperature. If dried under low temperature such as 105 degrees C, sludge will have premium drying characteristics when radiated under ultrasound for a shorter time such as 3 min. In the end, the ultrasonic treatment is expected to be an effective way to the low-cost sludge drying and also be an important reference to the optimization of the sludge drying process because of its effects on the increase of sludge drying efficiency.
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