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A wastewater sludge is stabilized and thickened in anaerobic digestion. The daily raw- slu...

A wastewater sludge is stabilized and thickened in anaerobic digestion. The daily raw- sludge feed is 100,000 lb containing 5500 lb of dry solids. Forty percent of the matter applied is converted to gases during digestion, and the digested residue is increased to 10% solids by supernatant withdrawal. Calculate the volumetric reduction of wet sludge achieved in the digestion process.

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