THE DESIGN AND ANALYSIS OF EXPERIMENTS. By Oscar Kempthorne. New York, John Wiley and Sons, Inc., 1952. 631 pp. $8.50. This book by a teacher of statistics (as well as a consultant for \"experimenters\") is a comprehensive study of the philosophical background for the statistical design of experiment. It is necessary to have some facility with algebraic notation and manipulation to be able to use the volume intelligently. The problems are presented from the theoretical point of view, without such practical examples as would be helpful for those not acquainted with mathematics. The mathematical justification for the techniques is given. As a somewhat advanced treatment of the design and analysis of experiments, this volume will be interesting and helpful for many who approach statistics theoretically as well as practically. With emphasis on the \"why,\" and with description given broadly, the author relates the subject matter to the general theory of statistics and to the general problem of experimental inference. MARGARET J. ROBERTSON

The Design and Analysis of Experiments

Comparative study of the methods used for treatment and final disposal of sewage sludge in European countries.

Sewage sludge, the inevitable by-product of municipal wastewater treatment plant operation, is a key issue in many countries due to its increasing volume and the impacts associated with its disposal. Thermochemical processing offers a new way of managing sewage sludge, not only by providing effective volume reduction, but also enabling transformation of carbon-rich organic fraction into valuable energy and fuel. Owing to some unique properties, sewage sludge differs from other solid fuels such as lignocellulosic biomass and coal, making its thermochemical conversion application somewhat complicated and challenging. This paper reviews the options of converting sewage sludge to energy and fuel via three main thermochemical conversion processes namely pyrolysis, gasification and combustion. The fundamental aspects of sewage sludge and its behaviour in each of thermochemical process are summarised. The challenges in adopting thermochemical conversion technology in sewage sludge management are addressed, and various alternative approaches deserving further consideration, such as the incorporation of pre-processing and co-utilisation, are discussed.

Thermochemical processing of sewage sludge to energy and fuel: Fundamentals, challenges and considerations

Progress in biomass torrefaction: Principles, applications and challenges

Moisture distribution in activated sludges: a review.

The objective of this work is to give the fundamental information that should be known about wastewater sludge drying. Three methods are mainly applied: convective drying, conductive drying and solar drying, each one presenting different characteristics. When applying convective drying three phases are distinguished: adaptation phase, constant drying rate phase and falling drying rate phase. Experimental works show that several parameters influence the drying kinetic during this process, such as the origin of the sludge and operating conditions. Imaging techniques allow observing three phenomena that happen during convective drying: shrinkage, cracks and skin formation. When applying conductive drying and considering the torque variations, the product passes through: pasty phase, lumpy phase and granular phase. The results show no regular shape of the drying kinetic with high values of the drying rate and the heat transfer coefficient during the first phase. A special focus is given into the sticky phase which reduces performances of the dryer. The third applied drying method is solar drying, which depends wholly on climatic conditions, such solar radiations and air temperature. Besides, for this method no regular shape of the drying kinetic can be observed, with high drying rate values during favorable conditions and low drying rate values during unfavorable conditions. The presented studies dealing with solar drying of wastewater sludge are limited to the variations of the different air temperatures registered inside and outside the drying chamber with the product temperature and their humidity with study of the pathogen reduction. Finally, some innovative developed methods are exposed in this review, such as the use of frying and super-heated steam.

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Review on fundamental aspect of application of drying process to wastewater sludge

Whereas indirect agitated drying has been extensively studied for granular materials, little is known in the case of pasty products. We describe an experimental set up specially designed for the investigation of drying kinetics, of heat transfer coefficient evolution, and of the mechanical torque necessary for stirring. This device was applied to municipal sewage sludge. Preliminary experiments were performed to investigate the influence of ageing of sludge on the drying kinetics. It appears that ageing does have no effect except for the first two days. The influences of the wall temperature, the stirrer speed, the dryer load and the location of the stirrer against the heated wall were studied. Three different rheological behaviors were observed during sludge drying. In particular, the sludge goes through a “glue” phase, and high levels of mechanical strain are recorded when the compact mass begins to break up. A critical stirrer speed is found within the range 40–60 rpm. To shorten the drying ti...

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Heat, momentum, and mass transfer measurements in indirect agitated sludge dryer

Sorption isotherms of Microcrystalline Cellulose (MCC), pharmaceutical granules, PolyEtherBlocAmide (PEBA) membrane and sewage sludges were measured at various temperatures using three different experimental gravimetric methods: the saturated salt method, the Dynamic Vapor System (DVS) apparatus and a simultaneous gravimetric and calorimetric measurement techniques using a Setaram TGA-DSC111. A comparison between the salts method and DVS is proposed at ambient temperature for the MCC, the pharmaceutical granules and the PEBA membrane. The comparison between the static method and the DVS shows that the results are consistent as long as the apparent moisture content in the material is high. When the apparent diffusion coefficient becomes low, the difficulty to reach the thermodynamic equilibrium appears in the saturated salts method. Then, DVS and TGA-DSC apparatus were used to investigate the desorption isotherms for the MCC between the ambient temperature and 90°C. Finally, an application on biol...

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Comparison between static and Dynamic methods for sorption isotherm measurements

In spite of a great number of industrial applications, the thermal design of contact dryers for sewage sludge remains empirical. To improve the understanding of drying mechanisms, the penetration theory developed by Schlunder and coworkers for mono- and multidispersed packing is used to represent the experimental results from a laboratory-scale dryer. For granular packing, the only adjustment parameter of the model is the mixing number, which characterizes the dryer and its stirrer. For pasty-like materials, the pasty phase is assumed to be a saturated particulate phase. As the calculation of the effective properties calculation is cumbersome for a multi-granular packing, the particulate phase is considered as a monodispersed packing, whose dimension is unknown. To identify the two adjustment parameters, the mixing number was quantified from experiments performed on activated alumina balls, for which physical and thermal characteristics are known, and then the characteristic dimension of the sludge was de...

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Identification of the Limiting Mechanism in Contact Drying of Agitated Sewage Sludge

https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01619252/document

Patricia Arlabosse

Papers

Review on fundamental aspect of application of drying process to wastewater sludge

Heat, momentum, and mass transfer measurements in indirect agitated sludge dryer

Comparison between static and Dynamic methods for sorption isotherm measurements

Identification of the Limiting Mechanism in Contact Drying of Agitated Sewage Sludge

Quantification of the torrefaction effects on the grindability and the hygroscopicity of wood chips