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"
}