UDC 628.336.3
DOI 10.35776/VST.2025.05.06

Kichigin V. I., Iudin Aleksandr

Experimental and statistical models of the water yielding capacity of domestic wastewater sludge after chemical treatment

Summary

The results of studying the change in the specific resistance of wastewater sludge after treatment with a coagulant and flocculant in doses from 0 to 300 mg/dm³ are presented. The degree of the chemical effect on the sludge dewatering efficiency is established. Mathematical models of the changes in the sludge specific resistance depending on the type and quantity, as well as on the doses of coagulant and flocculant added into the sludge are obtained. The mathematical models are presented both implicitly and explicitly (calculation formulas and isolines). It was proved that to provide for the maximum reduction of the specific resistance: of raw sludge using a coagulant dose of up to 100 mg/dm³ and a PAA flocculant dose of 300 mg/dm³ was more expedient; of excess activated sludge – using a coagulant dose of 150 mg/dm³ and a PAA flocculant dose of 50 mg/dm³; of thickened activated sludge – using a coagulant dose of 100 mg/dm³ and a PAA flocculant dose of 300 mg/dm³; and of mixture of raw sludge and thickened activated sludge – using a PAA flocculant dose of 200 mg/dm³. Measuring the sludge density showed that the lower is the sludge specific resistance, the higher its density is.

Key words

sludge , optimal dose of chemicals , mathematical and graphic models of sludge water yielding capacity , sludge specific resistance , density

For citation: Kichigin V. I., Iudin A. A. Experimental and statistical models of the water yielding capacity of domestic wastewater sludge after chemical treatment. Vodosnabzhenie i Sanitarnaia Tekhnika, 2025, no. 5, pp. 47–54. DOI: 10.35776/VST.2025.05.06. (In Russian).

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