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Service life of sewage culvert with bacteria coating from waste sludge and negative pressure method

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In this study, a bacteria coating resistant to sulfate attack using materials with bacteria immobilization has been developed. For core coating material, Rhodobacter capsulatus, slime-forming bacteria collected from sediment sludge in sewage was used. For cement substitute materials, FA and GGBFS, by-products from coal combustion and steel manufacturing were used. Based on the sulfate ion diffusion coefficient of the bacteria coating, deterioration analysis with two methods was performed, and the service life changes were analyzed with the design parameters such as coating thickness and bacterial replacement ratio. The predicted service life of the bacteria coating by the deterioration depth evaluation shows an increase to 301–559% considering normal repair materials when the bacterial replacement ratio was 35% and the coating thickness changed from 5 to 20 mm. With the multi-layer method, it increases to 485% with the coating thickness change from 5 to 20 mm in the same replacement ratio. Through the quantification of predicted service life, the results showed that the effect of replacement ratio on service life was greater than that of the coating thickness, and the coating with more than 20% replacement ratio of immobilization was very effective for service life extension.

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This research was supported by a grant (21SCIP-C158976-02) from Construction Technology Research Program funded by Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport of Korean government.

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    Hyun-Sub Yoon & Keun-Hyeok Yang

  2. Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Hannam University, 70 Hannam-ro, Daedeok-gu, Daejeon, 34430, Republic of Korea

    Seung-Jun Kwon

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Yoon, HS., Yang, KH. & Kwon, SJ. Service life of sewage culvert with bacteria coating from waste sludge and negative pressure method. J Mater Cycles Waste Manag 24, 582–594 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10163-021-01342-0

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