Pilot Scale Evaluation of Pellet Fluidized Bed Process for the Conditioning of Alum Sludge

Abstract:

As a burgeoning technology based on conventional clarifier technology, pellet fluidized bed (PFB) technology has been widely applied in kinds of high SS water treatment process. In this paper, PFB process was used to thicken the alum sludge in a water plant in south China with scale of 1.0~2.5m³/h. The experimental results showed that, increasing flocculent (PAM) dosage could decrease outlet turbidity, and average up pellets settling behavior. Under the experimental condition, there exist negatively linear relationship between process maximum flow rate which ranged from 1.6m³/h to 2.2 m³/h and raw sludge concentration. Moreover, because of the improvement of pH environment and flocs chemical structure, additional lime dosage would enhance maximum surface loading and save PAM dosage. The pilot scale experiment proved that by applying PFB, alum sludge conditioning could achieve satisfied results characterised by high surface loading, low outlet turbidity, and high concentration thicken sludge with fine dewaterability.

• Periodical: Advanced Materials Research (Volumes 726-731)
• Pages: 530-534
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMR.726-731.530
• Online since: August 2013
• Authors: Gang Zhang, Li Qing Zhang
• Keywords: Pellet Fluidized Bed, Sludge Conditioning, Terminal Settling Velocity, Turbidity

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