Publication detail
Proposed EU legislation to force changes in sewage sludge disposal – A case study
TUREK, V. KILKOVSKÝ, B. JEGLA, Z. STEHLÍK, P.
English title
Proposed EU legislation to force changes in sewage sludge disposal – A case study
Type
journal article in Web of Science
Language
en
Original abstract
The consequences of changes planned in the European Union legislation relevant to the disposal of sewage sludges are discussed. A specific municipal waste water treatment plant is analyzed in terms of drying and subsequent combustion or pyrolysis of the produced stabilized sludge, and the respective net energy balances are carried out. A simplified economic analysis of the two disposal options is presented, which suggest that combustion of the sludge would be economically infeasible while pyrolysis of the sludge in a modular, self-sufficient container unit can bring a small financial benefit due to the selling of the produced phosphorus-rich biochar.
English abstract
The consequences of changes planned in the European Union legislation relevant to the disposal of sewage sludges are discussed. A specific municipal waste water treatment plant is analyzed in terms of drying and subsequent combustion or pyrolysis of the produced stabilized sludge, and the respective net energy balances are carried out. A simplified economic analysis of the two disposal options is presented, which suggest that combustion of the sludge would be economically infeasible while pyrolysis of the sludge in a modular, self-sufficient container unit can bring a small financial benefit due to the selling of the produced phosphorus-rich biochar.
Keywords in English
sewage sludge, drying, combustion, pyrolysis
Released
31.12.2018
Publisher
Springer
ISSN
2095-0187
Volume
12
Number
4
Pages from–to
660–669
Pages count
10
BIBTEX
@article{BUT149271,
author="Vojtěch {Turek} and Bohuslav {Kilkovský} and Zdeněk {Jegla} and Petr {Stehlík},
title="Proposed EU legislation to force changes in sewage sludge disposal – A case study",
year="2018",
volume="12",
number="4",
month="December",
pages="660--669",
publisher="Springer",
issn="2095-0187"
}