Drivers and Solutions to Develop a Low-Cost Class A Solution: San Francisco Sequencing Batch Reactor Temperature Phased Anaerobic Digestion

摘要

San Francisco Public Utilities Commission (SFPUC), in collaboration with CH2M HILL,evaluated and designed the conversion of its existing high-rate mesophilic anaerobic digestionprocess at OSP to a SBR TPAD process in order to produce Class A biosolids, per USEPA Title40 Code of Federal Regulations Part 503 (40 CFR 503) Alternative 1 ‐ Time and Temperature.Approximately 30 percent of San Francisco’s biosolids are land applied in neighboring SolanoCounty during the dry season (April through October). Recently, Solano County revised Chapter25 of its County Code biosolids regulation to requires that a portion of a utility’s biosolids betreated to Class A standards, in order to allow the utility to continue to land apply Class Bbiosolids in the county after October 2012. Pursuant to these pending requirements, SFPUCdetermined the best near-term approach to meet Class A requirements during the dry seasonrequires a solution that avoids environmental permitting delays and minimizes capitalexpenditures, while expediting construction. SFPUC staff developed a temperature-phaseddigestion approach to convert the mesophilic anaerobic digestion system to SBR TPAD (Jolis,2009) without constructing additional digester volume.SBR TPAD is phased anaerobic digestion. Phase 1 will consist of three sequentially fed,thermophilic phase digesters (TPD) (Digesters 2, 3, and 4) at 131°F/55°C in fill/hold/draw modewith the hold digester allowing a minimum of 24 hours of reaction time at 131°F withoutadditional digester feed, to provide sufficient destruction of pathogens as required by 40 CFR503. Phase 2 will consist of one mesophilic phase digester (MPD) (Digester 1 is designated andDigester 2 is designated back-up) at 100°F/38℃ in flow‐through mode receiving digested solidsfrom the TPD draw, which is transferred to biosolids dewatering.