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With the continuous increase in sewage-sludge production worldwide, the pyrolytic disposal of sludge has received great attention. To build knowledge on the kinetics of pyrolysis, first, sludge was regulated using appropriate amounts of cationic polyacrylamide (CPAM) and sawdust to study their enhancing effect on dehydration. Due to the effects of the charge neutralization and skeleton hydrophobicity, a certain dose of CPAM and sawdust reduced the sludge's moisture content from 80.3% to 65.7%. Next, the pyrolysis characteristics of the dehydrated sludge regulated by CPAM and sawdust were investigated at a heating rate of 10~40 °C/min by using TGA method. The addition of sawdust enhanced the release of volatile substances and reduced the apparent activation energy of the sample. The maximum weight-loss rate decreased with the heating rate, and the DTG curves moved in the direction of high temperature. A model-free method, namely the Starink method, was adopted to calculate the apparent activation energies, which ranged from 135.3 kJ/mol to 174.8 kJ/mol. Combined with the master-plots method, the most appropriate mechanism function ultimately obtained was the nucleation-and-growth model.

Study on the Thermogravimetric Kinetics of Dehydrated Sewage Sludge Regulated by Cationic Polyacrylamide and Sawdust