• Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers B
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• v.27 no.7
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• pp.929-937
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• 2003

In general, the electric motor for driving the centrifuge of Decanter type is selected based on the power(starting power) necessary to start the bowl and the screw shaft. However the operation cost of the machine is dependent on the power needed at a steadily operating condition, including the power against the bearing friction and that for the sludge removal. In this paper, the formulation for the sludge-removal power is presented. Sample calculation for a specific design shows that the sludge-removal power is increased with the friction coefficient. It also reveals that the power is mainly dependent on the length of the screw blade rather than the beach angle. Further it is shown that the power increases in square of the rotational speed of the machine.

• Resources Recycling
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• v.24 no.6
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• pp.17-23
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• 2015

Flue gas desulfurization(FGD) is the technique to remove $SO_2$ gas from stack gases of coal-fired plants. Many researcher have studied to replace the desulfurizing agent because FGD systems use a lot of limestone and energy. In this study, we use the limestone sludge which is a by-product of steel industry in order to replace desulfurizing agent of FGD system by control the particle size of limestone sludge. And desulfurization performance test is implemented by investigating $SO_2$ gas removal properties upon the characteristic of the limestone sludge with various particle size.

• Water for future
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• v.22 no.1
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• pp.117-125
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• 1989

This study deals with the performance of an acivated sludge system which is modified by the researcher to function without any additional chemical or internal recyle in removing organics, nitrogen, and phosphorus from synthetic wastewater. To improve the nutrient removal efficiency, the researcher utilized the anoxic, anaerobic, and aerobic reactor sequences with a single sludge return, whiched to nitrification/denitrification and phosphorus release/overplus accumulation. A bench scale system was operated with a view to investigating the reaction characteristics of each reactor, and to measuring the biological kinetic coefficients(Y, $K_d$, k, $K_s$) for theremoval of COD in relation to the mean cell residence time at five different MLSS concentrations, 5000, 4200, 3300, 2600, and 1900 mg/l. The results of the research showed that organic substance and nutrient were removed simultaneously by this modified activated sludge process. And the process kad 66%-99% ortho-p removal efficiency.

• Journal of Korean Society of Environmental Engineers
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• v.33 no.4
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• pp.275-280
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• 2011

In the present work, the aerobic particle's characteristics were enhanced. A polymer was used to make aerobic granular sludge in short period of time. And operation parameters were calculated for organic matter removal in domestic wastewater using a sequencing batch reactor (SBR). The experiment for sewage (Influent concentration of 63~72 mg COD/L) by using mature aerobic granular sludge showed the organic matter removal rate k and oxygen utilization coefficient a', b' were $10.161d^{-1}$ and 0.87 mg $O_2/mg$ $COD_r$, 0.11 mg $O_2/mg$ MLVSS d respectively. Therefore, it was more effective than K value $5{\sim}8d^{-1}$ of conventional activated sludge process. The sludge synthetic value and sludge auto-oxydation value were 0.45 mg VSS/mg $COD_r$ and 0.05 mg VSS/mg MLVSS d respectively. Consequently, mortality rates of microorganisms was lower than conventional activated sludge process.

• Journal of Korean Society of Environmental Engineers
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• v.32 no.3
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• pp.264-270
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• 2010

Waste activated sludge from sewage treatment plants mainly consisted of flocs of bacterial cell, and thus hard to be stabilized anaerobically due to rigid cell walls. One of the pretreatment methods to overcome this barrier is the venturi cavitation system (VCS) adopting hydrodynamic cavitation. This research was conducted to investigate the effects of the pretreatment of waste activated sludge by VCS on the anaerobic digestibility. Depending on the pretreatment period with the VCS, methane production, COD removal and VS removal efficiency increased 41%~45%, 36.5%~43.1% and 18.4~24.1%, respectively, compared to the control case. The increase in methane production from digester was 3.3~4.2 times higher than the theoretical methane potential of the increased SCOD after the VCS pre-treatment. This suggests that the VCS pre-treatment not only increases SCOD but also improves the digestibility of solid fractions. The energy mass balance indicated that the energy consumed for sludge pre-treatment could be recovered by the increased methane production after pre-treatment, suggesting the high potential for field application.

• Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers B
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• v.27 no.7
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• pp.938-947
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• 2003

In this paper, we derived the formula for estimating the power of the electric motors needed to operate the Decanter-type centrifuge. In the derivation of the formula the sludge-removal torque is to be supplied from the formula derived in the first paper. The intricate nature of the transmission mechanism in the planetary gear trains of the sludge-removal power and torque has been clarified in this second paper. In particular we considered two-motor system, where the main motor drives the machine while the differential-speed control motor plays the role of braking in adjusting the differential speed. Sample calculation for the specific design treated in the first paper showed that the selection criterion for the main motor depends on the lower limit of the differential speed; when the lower limit is set low, it should be selected based on the steadily operating power, while it should be selected based on the starting power when the lower limit is set high. The total power required by both the main motor and the differential-speed control motor increases as the differential speed is decreased. It is suggested that the power loss in the differential-speed control motor could be minimized by attaching an electric generator to it.

• KSCE Journal of Civil and Environmental Engineering Research
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• v.26 no.1B
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• pp.113-118
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• 2006

Cost estimation of an intermittent aerobic digestion technology was carried out in this study. Aeration ratio is one of the most important design factors and it affects installation and power consumption cost. For the purpose, digestion efficiency was fixed at 35% of SS reduction and the reactor type was assumed a 2-chamber sequencing batch reactor (SBR). Installation cost and power consumption cost were evaluated and converted in terms of present value that could reflect the rate of discount and the rate of economic growth. The lower aeration ratio needs higher installation cost but lower power consumption cost. From the point of only installation cost, conventional aerobic digestion is cheaper than intermittent aerobic digestion. But intermittent aerobic digestion is better economical for more than 10 years of estimated service life. The optimal aeration ratio was dependent on the service life and it was lower as the estimated service life increased. For the 45 years as the service life, the optimal aeration ratio was estimated 0.3 and the total cost was 64% of the conventional aerobic digestion.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Marine Environment & Energy
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• v.12 no.1
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• pp.1-8
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• 2009

EMMC(Entrapped Mixed Microbial Cell) process which is a kind of active cell immobilizing method was applied to treat fisheries processing wastewater biologically. Kinetic constants were calculated for organic and nitrogen removal and effect of effluent recycling on system performance was evaluated also. Yield coefficient, Y showed relatively low value compared with Y value obtained from conventional activated sludge process. It means that EMMC process can reduce amount of excess sludge significantly compared with conventional activated sludge process. Endogenous respiration coefficient $k_e$ of EMMC process also showed relatively low value compared with that of conventional activated sludge process. Yield coefficient Y, endogenous respiration coefficient $k_e$ and half saturation constant $k_s$ obtained from EMMC process in terms of nitrification were compared with reported value from literature based on suspended growth nitrification system. The value of Y obtained from this study has no difference compared with values obtained from literature review and $k_e$ of this study was low but $k_s$ of this study was high compared than values obtained from suspended growth nitrification system. To evaluate the effect of internal recycling on system performance, system was operated with internal recycling ratio of 1.5Q, 2.0Q, 2.5Q and 3.0Q. increase of internal recycling ratio effect more greatly on improvement of denitrification efficiency than that of nitrification efficiency. Accordingly, optimization of internal recycling ratio has to be based on improvement of anoxic reactor performance.

• 한국생물공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2000.04a
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• pp.406-409
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• 2000

For the effective treatment of dye-processing wastewater, JLR(Jet-Loop Reactor) with active carbon supports were investigated. BOD removal efficiency was found as 99% when influent BOD concentration of dye-processing wastewater was 400 mg/L. $COD_{Mn}$ of effluent removal efficiencies were found as 86${\sim}$ 89% when these of activated sludge reactor were 62${\sim}$72%. Also, color removal efficiencies were found as 84${\sim}$87% when these of activated sludge reactor were 72%${\sim}$77%. After JLR with active carbon supports had been used, all of the $COD_{Mn}$, $COD_{Cr}$ and color removal efficiencies Increased when chemical precipitation was done. Consequently, JLR with active carbon supports was proved to be more excellent than the activated sludge reactor.

• Proceedings of the Korea Water Resources Association Conference
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• 2008.05a
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• pp.842-846
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• 2008

원수의 탁질 중에서 입경이 $10^{-1}$mm이상인 것은 보통침전으로 제거가 가능하지만, 입경이��$10^{-3}mm$이하가 되면 일반적으로 콜로이드입자라고 총칭하며 그대로의 상태로서는 거의 침강되지 않을 뿐만 아니라 급속여과기구에서도 포착되지 않는다. 따라서 급속여과 방식에서는 이와 같은 탁질을 효과적으로 제거하기 위한 전처리로서 응집조작으로 인한 콜로이드상의 탁질을 플록화하여 약품침전이나 급속여과에서 포착되도록 탁질의 성상을 변화시키는 조작이 반드시 필요하다. 또한 양호한 플록을 효과적으로 형성시키는 약품혼화와 플록형성 등을 강구해야 한다. 이에 본 연구에서는 현재 국내에서 운영하고 있는 정수처리시스템의 일부인 혼화지내에 혼화지점의 단면적을 축소시켜 약품혼화효과를 극대화하고 혼화기의 소요동력을 감소시켜 혼화효과를 개선하며 혼화지내 혼화기 운용의 비용 절감 효과를 증가시키기 위한 저에너지형 CF혼화장치를 개발하는데 연구 목적이 있다. 연구결과 CF혼화장치의 설치시 약품 투입 위치에 따라 $2{\sim}6%$정도의 탁도제거율의 상승과 슬러지 높이의 차이를 보이는 것으로 나타났으며 이 실험 결과 약품투입장소에서 혼화지의 Compact화로 인해 급속 혼화를 이룰 경우 더 많은 플록화로 인해 탁도 제거율이 높아지는 것을 알 수 있다.