Improving rheological sludge characterization with electrical measurements

Improving rheological sludge characterization with electrical measurements

Rheological Characterization of Sludge Coming from a Wastewater Treatment Plant

Problem statement: The aim of this study was that of studying the rheology of sewage sludge using two different rheological test protocols taken from literature and comparing them in order to evaluate which useful information are given from every protocol. Approach: Two different protocols have been used taking particularly into account the problems connected to sludge heterogeneous composition...

Rheological characterization of centrifuged thickened waste excess activated sludge (EAS): the maceration effect on sludge pumpability

The purpose of this study is to determine how the rheological characterization of centrifuged thickened waste excess activated sludge (EAS). Wastewater treatment plants (WWTP) contain a number of transport operations of suspensions with special flow characteristics. Flow characteristics, in particular viscosity related effects, vary from very water-like to strongly non-Newtonian. This study use...

Rheological Behavior of Fresh Activated Sludge

Despite of few research works on municipal sludge, still there is a lack of actual data. Thus, this work was focused on the conditioning and rheology of fresh activated sludge. The effect of cationic polyelectrolyte has been investigated at different concentrations and pH values in a comparative fashion. Yield stress is presented in all results indicating the minimum stress that necessary to re...

Dataset of near infrared spectroscopy measurements to predict rheological parameters of sludge

In the dataset presented in this article, 36 sludge samples were characterized. Rheological parameters were determined and near infrared spectroscopy measurements were realized. In order to assess the potential of near infrared spectroscopy to predict rheological parameters of sludge, Partial Least Square algorithm was used to build calibration models.