• Resources Recycling
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• v.15 no.4 s.72
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• pp.36-43
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• 2006

There was some difficulty dewatering properties due to small porosity diameter of cake, when pigment sludge contained fine particle was formed by cake under the dewatering. It was difficult to dewater the sludge with fine particles with the conventional mechanical dewatering method. This study was to improve the dewatering rate as discharging the water from porosity of cake easily, supplying the low heat to the cake layer. Thermal dewatering equipment of piston type to keep up constant temperature on the cake was set up and relative experiment was conducted for sludge of 200 g with fine pigment particle. As test results. filtration of 176.8 g, cake weight of 19.4 g, cake thickness of 4.2 mm was measured, and it was analyzed that the water content of cake was 47 wt% and dewatering velocity, which moaned the residual d교 sloid amount per dewatering area, was $2.1DS\;m^{2}{\cdot}cycle$. This results showed that filtration increased, cake weight and thickness decreased and dewatering velocity increased against mechanical dewatering method. And water content of cake decreased about 30%, so the result which dewatering rate improved was drew generally. The reason is that the inner vapor pressure working at the cake porosity increased as applying the low heat to the cake layer, which lead to discharge the water from porosity easily. Therefore, this study was estimated by the useful technology for sludge reduction.

• Journal of Korean Society of Environmental Engineers
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• v.28 no.10
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• pp.1016-1023
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• 2006

The water content of dewatered cake produced from belt press dewatering equipment was about 75 wt% which was some high to handle it, so the equipment contained a limit at the economical and environmental aspect. The thermal dewatering equipment built as an alternative to overcome several problems was set up at the sludge treatment field and estimated some feasibility as comparison with the dewatering performance of belt press. First, dewatering properties of waterworks sludge was analyzed by monthly. The sludge of a water shortage season contained a high organic content which led to be difficult to dewater the cake, the other side the sludge of rainwater season was ease to dewater because of low organic content. According to the results to analysis the water content of dewatered cake produced from two equipments on the base of the seasonal dewatering properties, the water content of dewatered cake produced from thermal dewatering for sludge of water shortage season was $41.6{\sim}48.3$ wt% and $71{\sim}84$ wt% from belt press. In the case of rainwater season, the water content of dewatered cake produced from thermal dewatering was $34{\sim}37.7$ wt% and $57{\sim}70$ wt% from belt press. It was understood that thereduction of water content of cake by thermal dewatering was larger than belt press. The economical aspect for two equipments was evaluated on considering the reduction of cake treatment amount as the decrease of water content of cake. When putting the cost index of thermal dewatering into 100, belt press was 121. This meant that thermal dewater was more economical than belt press by about 20% in the side of construction and operation. In conclusion, thermal dewatering equipment was estimated by producing the low water content dewatered cake as well as being operated with low coat.

• Journal of Korean Society of Environmental Engineers
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• v.28 no.10
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• pp.1009-1015
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• 2006

The elcetrodewatering filter press(EDFP) which had anode and cathod plates to be set between filter plates was built for reducing the waterworks sludge and improving performance of dewatering equipment. Several tests to compare the dewaterability with conventional mechanical filter press dewatering(MDEP) and EDFP was conducted through this equipment. As test results, filtration amount discharged from EDFP measured 43.2 kg which increased against MDFP, and cake weight measured 4 kg which was two times against MDFP. The water content of dewatered cake from EDFP was 55wt% and dewatering velocity was 2.3 $kg/m^2{\cdot}cycle$. This water content decrease 20% and dewatering velocity increased 30% with compare to the MDFP. That is to say, EDFP constructed from electrodewatering mechanism increase filtrate discharging amount, which make dewatering velocity increase and produce the low water content dewatered cake against MDFP. Energy consumption of EDFP is analysed to 400 kwh/DS ton. The results to analysis the economical aspect considering the power consumption and the handling cost decline as sludge volume reduction due to producing the low water content cake showed that expenses to handle sludge of 1 ton by dry solid base cut down on 20,000 won. If considering several test aspects, it was analysed that EDFP was excellent in the side of performance as well as economical suitability.

• Resources Recycling
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• v.18 no.3
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• pp.55-61
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• 2009

Dewatering process to remove water from pigment sludge was important in the diverse aspects of the improvement of product quality, curtailment of the drying cost and the transportation. It was difficult to dewater pigment particles with the mechanical forces because the size was fine under $5{\mu}m$. Thermal filter press dewatering equipment composed of squeezing plate and a fixed heating plate was developed to improve the dewaterability of pigment the sludge as supplying the heat from the fixed heating plate to the cake. Several tests that estimate the dewaterability for pigment sludge as with or without squeezing process and the difference of dewatering time was conducted with this equipment. Dewaterability of thermal dewatering under squeezing process was increased about 20% compared with non squeezing process. Under squeezing process, thermal dewatering tests changing dewatering time with 70 and 80 minute were conducted respectively. The water content of cake was more reduced at dewatering time of 80 minute compared with 70 minute, and dewatering velocity was also decreased, which caused the productivity of thermal filter press to drop. It was observed that clogging of filter cloth didn't almost occur because the liquid was discharged from cake layer easily. In this research, it was resulted that the squeezing process and long dewatering time were effective to improve the dewaterability of pigment sludge. So, this thermal filter press equipment was useful for dewatering the fine particle sludge like pigment.

• Journal of Korean Society of Environmental Engineers
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• v.28 no.11
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• pp.1154-1161
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• 2006

Air drying equipment was built as a device for reduction of dewatered cake from wastewater and waterworks sludge and to reproduce it by reusable matter. Dewatered cake was supplied into the air drying equipment which operated by air velocity of 80 m/sec, air rate 30 $m^3/min$ and air temperature of $40^{\circ}C$, and dried to produce the dried powder. The air drying equipment was composed of the air ejector which made high-speed fluid field, and cyclone which made circling fluid field. Dewatered cake was crushed at the high-speed zone as first step, and formed into dried powder of sphere shape by the collision between particles at the circling fluid zone.. Wastewater sludge with water content of 82.5 wt% was supplied 1.0 kg/min into air drying equipment and produced the dried powder which had the water content of 62.3 wt% and mass median diameter of 2.4 mm after process. At that time, it was analyzed that water removal rate was 0.1 $H_2O{\Delta}kg/min{\cdot}DS$ kg and air consumption was 170 $m^3/DS$ kg. Under same experimental conditions, when waterworks sludge was dried, water content of dried powder decrease to 47.5 wt% and mass median diameter decrease 2.1 mm and water removal rate increase 0.13 $H_2O{\Delta}kg/min{\cdot}DS$ kg. Air consumption increase 180 $m^3/DS$ kg with comparison to the results of wastewater sludge. Therefore, this technology was evaluated that drying the dewatered cake of waterworks sludge was more efficient than wastewater sludge, and also economical sludge handling technology due to drying the cake by only air.

• Bulletin of Korea Environmental Preservation Association
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• v.16 no.9
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• pp.10-12
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• 1994

• Proceedings of the Korean Environmental Sciences Society Conference
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• 2008.11a
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• pp.507-509
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• 2008

유입수 성상이 서로 다른 9개소의 하수처리장에서 발생하는 하수슬러지의 재이용 가능성에 대하여 퇴비 기준 및 부숙토 기준으로 검토하였다. (1) 공장폐수가 유입되는 하수처리장의 탈수케이크에 함유된 Cr, Cu, Pb성분은 퇴비 및 부숙토 기준치를 초과하였다. (2) 중금속의 함량에 관한 기준을 만족하는 탈수케이크는 가연분 함량이 낮으므로 직접적인 재이용은 어려울 것으로 생각된다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Environmental Sciences Society Conference
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• 2003.11b
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• pp.310-311
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• 2003

본 연구에서는 폐수산자원인 불가사리와 조개껍질 분말을 이용한 탈수보조제(물리개량제)의 가능성을 확인하였다. 불가사리와 조개껍질을 이용한 탈수보조제는 유가자원 소모라는 기존의 탈수보조제의 문제점을 보완하여 폐자원의 자원화라는 이점이 있으며 탈수케이크의 함수율을 효과적으로 낮추어 주어 소각등의 후속공정에 도움을 줄 수 있는 것으로 사료된다. 뿐만아니라 천연 비료로 사용되어지는 불가사리의 활용이라는 점에서 탈수슬러지 퇴비화등 자원 재이용에의 적용성 또한 증대시킬 수 있다.

• Proceedings of the Korean Environmental Sciences Society Conference
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• 2003.11b
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• pp.308-309
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• 2003

본 연구에서 진행된 전자선과 불가사리 분말을 이용한 탈수슬러지 함수율 저감 시스템으로 슬러지를 전처리한 후 탈수함으로 최소 15 % 이상의 탈수효율 증대로 인한 탈수케이크의 부피감소 및 이에 따른 처리비용의 절감을 가져올 것으로 사료된다. 또한 물리적 개량단계에 이용되는 불가사리 분말은 해양생태계에 악영향을 주는 불가사리의 이용범위를 확대함으로 불가사리 구제 및 수매사업의 활성화와 해양환경보전에 이바지할 수 있다.

• Journal of Korean Society of Environmental Engineers
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• v.37 no.1
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• pp.1-6
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• 2015

The purpose of this study is to suggest the effective operation method by developing prediction model for the gas production rate, an indicator of the effectiveness of anaerobic digestion tank, using data mining. At the result, gas production estimate model is developed by using ANN within 10% error. It is expected to help operation of anaerobic digestion by suggesting selected parameter. Meanwhile case based reasoning is applied to develop dewatering cake management technology. Case based reasoning uses the most similar examples of past when a new problem occurs, therefore in this study, management measures are developed that proposes dewatering cake minimization with the minimum change by applying the case based reasoning to sludge disposal process.