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Sustainable management of biological solids in small treatment plants: overview of strategies and reuse options for a solar drying facility in Poland
The issue of sustainable management of biosolids (excess sludge) from wastewater treatment is an important issue in the entire developed world. Residual sludge disposal costs and environmental impact may be significant, and reducing such costs, as well as the energy consumption for dewatering and dr...
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author | Boguniewicz-Zablocka, Joanna Klosok-Bazan, Iwona Capodaglio, Andrea G. |
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description | The issue of sustainable management of biosolids (excess sludge) from wastewater treatment is an important issue in the entire developed world. Residual sludge disposal costs and environmental impact may be significant, and reducing such costs, as well as the energy consumption for dewatering and drying, is a key issue for safe and sustainable sludge disposal, considering the recent ban of some disposal options, such as landfilling, in many European countries. An alternative to thermal technologies is solar drying (not to be confused with bio-drying, very close to the concept of composting). Solar greenhouse drying technology is characterized by reduced land requirements compared with traditional outdoor drying beds, as well as by low-energy requirements compared with other thermal drying methods. Process operation is cost-efficient, with close to no maintenance, and observed specific evaporation rates up to threefold higher than conventional drying beds. Many applications of this technology exist in Poland, Germany and Austria: more than 10,000 t of wet sludge per year is treated in this way in Germany alone and almost as many (9000 t/year) in Poland. This paper examines current biosolids treatment technologies applicable to small wastewater treatment plants (2000–9999 population equivalents served) and opportunities for possible solids reuse in Poland in view of sustainable circular economy schemes. In particular, a purely solar-driven greenhouse facility for sewage sludge drying was investigated under different conditions (season, temperature, environmental humidity) and possible improvements for its efficiency evaluated. Sludge processed by solar drying could have different final disposal pathways, according to season, in accordance with the prescriptions of the new National Waste Management Plan of Poland. |
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spelling | pubmed-81441372021-06-01 Sustainable management of biological solids in small treatment plants: overview of strategies and reuse options for a solar drying facility in Poland Boguniewicz-Zablocka, Joanna Klosok-Bazan, Iwona Capodaglio, Andrea G. Environ Sci Pollut Res Int Waste and Biomass Management & Valorization The issue of sustainable management of biosolids (excess sludge) from wastewater treatment is an important issue in the entire developed world. Residual sludge disposal costs and environmental impact may be significant, and reducing such costs, as well as the energy consumption for dewatering and drying, is a key issue for safe and sustainable sludge disposal, considering the recent ban of some disposal options, such as landfilling, in many European countries. An alternative to thermal technologies is solar drying (not to be confused with bio-drying, very close to the concept of composting). Solar greenhouse drying technology is characterized by reduced land requirements compared with traditional outdoor drying beds, as well as by low-energy requirements compared with other thermal drying methods. Process operation is cost-efficient, with close to no maintenance, and observed specific evaporation rates up to threefold higher than conventional drying beds. Many applications of this technology exist in Poland, Germany and Austria: more than 10,000 t of wet sludge per year is treated in this way in Germany alone and almost as many (9000 t/year) in Poland. This paper examines current biosolids treatment technologies applicable to small wastewater treatment plants (2000–9999 population equivalents served) and opportunities for possible solids reuse in Poland in view of sustainable circular economy schemes. In particular, a purely solar-driven greenhouse facility for sewage sludge drying was investigated under different conditions (season, temperature, environmental humidity) and possible improvements for its efficiency evaluated. Sludge processed by solar drying could have different final disposal pathways, according to season, in accordance with the prescriptions of the new National Waste Management Plan of Poland. Springer Berlin Heidelberg 2020-07-24 2021 /pmc/articles/PMC8144137/ /pubmed/32710361 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11356-020-10200-9 Text en © The Author(s) 2020 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) . |
spellingShingle | Waste and Biomass Management & Valorization Boguniewicz-Zablocka, Joanna Klosok-Bazan, Iwona Capodaglio, Andrea G. Sustainable management of biological solids in small treatment plants: overview of strategies and reuse options for a solar drying facility in Poland |
title | Sustainable management of biological solids in small treatment plants: overview of strategies and reuse options for a solar drying facility in Poland |
title_full | Sustainable management of biological solids in small treatment plants: overview of strategies and reuse options for a solar drying facility in Poland |
title_fullStr | Sustainable management of biological solids in small treatment plants: overview of strategies and reuse options for a solar drying facility in Poland |
title_full_unstemmed | Sustainable management of biological solids in small treatment plants: overview of strategies and reuse options for a solar drying facility in Poland |
title_short | Sustainable management of biological solids in small treatment plants: overview of strategies and reuse options for a solar drying facility in Poland |
title_sort | sustainable management of biological solids in small treatment plants: overview of strategies and reuse options for a solar drying facility in poland |
topic | Waste and Biomass Management & Valorization |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8144137/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32710361 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11356-020-10200-9 |
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