Energy Production from Sewage Sludge in a Proposed Wastewater Treatment Plant
Abstract: The implemented
technologies for sewage sludge processing are still very limited in Egypt.
Unfortunately, dealing with the produced sludge is mainly given to the drying
process through natural drying beds neglecting quality of the dried sludge. The
undertaken work is devoted to provide a design proposal for a typical
wastewater treatment plant suitable for the small communities on a very limited
area of land compared to that required to construct the conventional treatment
plant that serves the same population. The proposed sewage treatment plant is
certainly beneficial in reducing the capital costs by 26%, in addition to about
20% reduction in the running costs. On the other hand, electricity generated
from energy produced by anaerobic digestion of sewage sludge reduces the
electrical power requirements from the main grid network to about 27% in the
proposed wastewater treatment plant.
Keywords: Capital Costs;
Electricity; Energy Production; Running Costs; Sewage Sludge Processing;
Wastewater Treatment
Author: Mohamed Ayoub, Ibrahim
Gar Al-Alm Rashed, Ahmed El-Morsy
Journal Code: jptsipilgg160068
