Effect of Aluminium Salt Dosing on Activated Sludge Settleability Indicators: A New Settleability Model Development

Peter Ojo; Augustine Ifelebuegu

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Effect of Aluminium Salt Dosing on Activated Sludge Settleability Indicators: A New Settleability Model Development

Peter Ojo, Augustine Ifelebuegu

School of Energy, Construction and Environment

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There has been a significant rise in the use of aluminium salts (Al3+) for the chemical precipitation of phosphates in wastewater treatment plants due to growing stricter regulatory requirements for wastewater effluent release to the environment. The modelling of the settleability of the resultant Al3+ sludge in present engineering practice for design and optimisation are still based on conventional sludge settleability models. This paper describes a novel activated sludge settleability model which is designed to analyse the effects of Al3+ dosing on activated sludge settleability indicators, zone settling velocity (ZSV), and stirred specific volume index (SSVI). The impact of Al3+ dosing concentrations on ZSV and SSVI of full scale activated sludge plant were analysed in the laboratory over a three years’ period and the exponential form of the Vesilind equation was optimised and validated to include alum chemical dosing parameters. The proposed model equation was found to effectively describe the settleability of Al3+ dosed sludge for dosing concentrations range of 0 to 100 mg/L.

Original language	English
Article number	179
Number of pages	19
Journal	Water (Switzerland)
Volume	11
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.3390/w11010179
Publication status	Published - 21 Jan 2019

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activated sludge
settleability
zone settling
velocity
alum
stirred sludge volume
index

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