Abstract
The handling of sewage sludge is one of the most significant issues of wastewater treatment plant due to its potential harmful environmental impact and remarkable disposal costs. As a consequence, a proper handling of this biowaste is needed.
In the present study, a bench-scale fixed bed gasifier was operated with a sewage sludge coming from a drying facility. The experimental runs have been carried out using for each test 30 g of dried sewage sludge, steam as gasifying agent and by varying the reactor temperature in the range of 700 – 850 °C.
The results indicated that the gasification test conducted at a temperature of 700 °C produced the highest concentration of hydrogen, 58.2%. In addition, the increase of reaction temperature determined a reduction of char and tar from 11.4 to 9.7 g and from 9.1 to 0.7 g, respectively. On the other hand, the cold gas efficiency increased from 11 to 50%.
