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Drying Beds

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Biosolids Treatment Processes

Part of the book series: Handbook of Environmental Engineering ((HEE,volume 6))

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Although numerous techniques fulfill the basic functional definition of dewatering, they do so to widely varying degrees. It is important to keep this fact in mind when comparing different dewatering and/or drying devices. For example, sludge drying beds and evaporation lagoons can be used not only to dewater a particular sludge, but also to dry it to a solids concentration of more than 50–60%. Depending on the particular device involved, dewatered sludge from a mechanical device might vary from a wet, almost flowable form, to a harder and more friable form (1)–(5).

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  1. Lenox Institute of Water Technology, Lenox, MA

    Lawrence K. Wang PhD, PE, DEE (Dean & Director, Assistant to the President and Vice President) & Nazih K. Shammas PhD (Professor and Environmental Engineering Consultant, Ex-Dean and Director)

  2. Krofta Engineering Corporation, Lenox, MA

    Lawrence K. Wang PhD, PE, DEE (Dean & Director, Assistant to the President and Vice President) & Nazih K. Shammas PhD (Professor and Environmental Engineering Consultant, Ex-Dean and Director)

  3. Zorex Corporation, Newtonville, NY

    Lawrence K. Wang PhD, PE, DEE (Dean & Director, Assistant to the President and Vice President)

  4. Office of Waste Management, Department of Environmental Management, State of Rhode Island, Providence, RI

    Yan Li PE, MS (Environmental Engineer)

  5. Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece

    George P. Sakellaropoulos PhD (Professor)

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Wang, L.K., Li, Y., Shammas, N.K., Sakellaropoulos, G.P. (2007). Drying Beds. In: Wang, L.K., Shammas, N.K., Hung, YT. (eds) Biosolids Treatment Processes. Handbook of Environmental Engineering, vol 6. Humana Press. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-59259-996-7_13

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