Tratamento de lodo em biorreator anaeróbio de membrana dinâmica

Abstract

The treatment of sewage sludge is a challenge for environmental sanitation due to its difficulty to stabilize and large number of undesirable elements. On the other hand, it is found in its composition a high concentration of nutrients that can be reused in the nature in a beneficial way, but that end up being wasted in the conventional treatments. In the present work the treatment of sewage sludge in an anaerobic dynamic membrane bioreactor (AnDMBR) was carried out, in which it was possible to verify that the use of the dynamic membrane provided an excellent performance for the sludge filtration, producing turbidity permeate below 1 NTU after the formation of the separation layer. In addition, 53.2% of the phosphorus concentration and 35.6% of the nitrogen concentration were found in its composition, demonstrating that the use of this technology is a very interesting alternative for the recovery of these nutrients. As long as produced a less pollutant and nutrient-recovering permeate, there was also a marked stabilization of the concentrate, which showed a reduction of the organic fraction from 0.76 to 0.54 and the F/M ratio of 0.07 kgCOD/KgVSS to 0.02 KgCOD/KgVSS, furthermore a considerable methane production was observed.