Study of energy valorification of activated

sludge from wastewater treatment plants

Banciu Cristian, Silva Burca, B.R.H. Mişca
Faculty of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Babes-Bolyai University,
Cluj-Napoca, Romania

Abstract - The sludge from sewage treatment will remain a permanent waste
problem requiring an adequate solution. Sludge processing technologies comprise all
the technical processes for stabilizing and solving the final problem of waste from
sewage treatment. There are several processes used for energy recovery of sludge,
which is also the incineration with heat recovery, also used for this study. In this
paper had been tried to design a sludge recovery facility in sewage treatment plants
and sizing an industrial oven for the sludge incineration process. For this to be done it
was needed to determine some the characteristics of the activated sludge such as
humidity, quantity of ash, volatile matter and heat of combustion. With all these
characteristics of activated sludge it was developed a mathematical model in order to
determine if the process is feasible or not.