Tratamento de lodo de esgoto por secagem em estufa: higienização e produção de biossólidos para uso agrícola

• Autor(a) principal: Dias, Edgard Henrique Oliveira
• Data de Publicação: 2012
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: LOCUS Repositório Institucional da UFV
• Texto Completo: http://locus.ufv.br/handle/123456789/3779
• topic: Biossólidos; Coeficiente de decaimento; Colifagos somáticos; E.coli; Ovos de helmintos; Biosolids; Coefficient of decay; Somatic coliphages; E.coli; Helminth eggs; CNPQ::ENGENHARIAS::ENGENHARIA SANITARIA::TRATAMENTO DE AGUAS DE ABASTECIMENTO E RESIDUARIAS

This study aimed at evaluating the disinfection process of sewage sludge from a UASB reactor by greenhouse solar drying. Seven lots of sewage sludge were monitored between February 2010 and May 2011, each lot referring to an event of sludge discharge from the UASB reactor. The monitoring period of time of the different sludge lots varied from 50 to 130 days, with sampling every week. The following variables were monitored: pH, moisture, total solids, total coliforms, Escherichia coli, total and viable helminth eggs. In addition, somatic coliphages spiking experiments were conducted in sludge samples dried in the same field greenhouse, as well as in samples dried in a laboratory incubator kept under controlled temperature. A high sludge dewatering during the drying treatment in the greenhouse was observed, with moisture and total solids contents reaching levels, respectively, below 10% and above 90% when the sludge was subjected to periods of treatment longer than 75 days. Microbial decay during sludge drying was variable, but effective. Exponential decay was quite clear for total coliforms and Escherichia coli, but not so much for total and viable helminth eggs. Regarding the bacterial removal, an influence of the temperature was noticed, with higher decreasing of total coliforms and E.coli in the warmer periods. E.coli concentrations below 10³ MPN/gTS (the CONAMA Resolution 375/2006 standard for Class A biosolids) were obtained with more than 60 days of treatment in the greenhouse. Calculated values of Kb 20 for E.coli varied widely, between 0.004 and 0.142 d-1. Wide variations in the decay of helminth eggs were also observed, with calculated values of Koh 20 for total eggs ranging between 0.008 and 0.035 d-1. Concentrations of viable helminth eggs were always low, requiring only 15 days to reach counts below 0.25 eggs/gTS (the CONAMA Resolution 375/2006 standard for Class A biosolids). The results of the spiking experiments conducted in the greenhouse also showed intense exponential decay of somatic coliphages, with high Kcs 20 values ranging between 0.187 and 0.248 d-1. In contrast, in the spiking experiments performed in laboratory under conditions of controlled temperature (30ºC) the decay was much less intense, with Kcs 20 values between 0.028 and 0.078 d-1. Finally, this work presents a model for estimating the microbiological quality of biosolids treated by greenhouse drying based on the microbiological quality of raw sewage. Using stochastic modeling (taking into account variations on the input variables) it was estimated that, with 60 days of sludge drying in the greenhouse, the probability of reaching the bacteriological quality established in COMANA Resolution 375/2006 for biosolids classes A and B (103 and 106 E.coli/gST, respectively) was 66.2% and 97% respectively. In the case of helminth eggs these chances were respectively 64.3% and 99.8%. That is, the results suggest high stability and reliability of the greenhouse drying treatment process of the UASB sewage sludge.