[Enhanced enzymatic hydrolysis of excess sludge by surfactant]

In order to enhance the efficiency of enzymatic hydrolysis of excess sludge, sodium dodecyl sulfate (SDS) was added to the system to explore the feasibility of promotion the enzyme hydrolysis. The results showed that the enzymatic hydrolysis of excess sludge could be greatly improved by SDS, and the mixed enzymes system was more effective than that by single enzyme system. SCOD releasing increased linearly with the increase of SDS dosage at the mixed enzymes concentration of 0.06 g/g. SCOD/TCOD increased from 1.3% to 54.3% and VSS reduction achieved to 43.2% at the SDS dosage of 0.20 g/g. Further studies indicated that SDS could improve the activity of external enzymes. At SDS dosage of 0.10 g/g, the protease activity of SDS + protease showed a 2. 3-time increase and the amylase activity of SDS + amylase showed a 1.2-time increase compared with enzymatic treatment. After 4 h hydrolysis, the concentration of protein, NH4+ -N and soluble sugar in SDS + mixed enzymes system were improved by 85.4%, 92.5% and 64.0%, respectively. Correspondingly, sludge hydrolysis within prior 4 h was consistent with first-order reaction dynamics. The reaction rate constant (K) of soluble sugar increased from 0.23 to 0.41, which indicated that the reaction rate of hydrolysis increased significantly.