The phrase "amount of sludge" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing the quantity or volume of sludge in various contexts, such as environmental science, waste management, or industrial processes.
Example: "The treatment plant reported a significant increase in the amount of sludge produced during the last quarter."
Alternatives: "volume of sludge" or "quantity of sludge".
Glenn Paulsen, New Jersey's senior representative on the port authority and vice chairman of the organization, said Governor Whitman would not commit any money unless the corps demonstrated that Delaware and Pennsylvania would accept an equitable amount of sludge.
Settled sludge volume (SSV): Amount of sludge available.
Even after racking to a secondary, many of my beers have had a noticeable amount of sludge at the bottom.
Compared with the traditional high density slurry (HDS) process with large amount of sludge, the proposed process would be expected to produce only a small amount of sludge.
The amount of sludge (VSS) remaining in the serum bottle is determined.
The ultrasound demonstrated a small amount of sludge with no significant gallbladder wall thickening.
The sludge inoculum consists of digested sludge to which a certain amount of raw sludge (raw sludge is usually a mixture of 40% sludge from the pre-sedimentation and 60% sludge from the final sedimentation in WWTPs) has been added in order to "vitalize" it, i.e. to obtain a basic sludge gas development.
But the city is now casting its sewage treatment plants and the vast amounts of sludge, methane gas and other byproducts of the wastewater produced by New Yorkers, as an asset — specifically, as potential sources of renewable energy.
In addition, Delaware officials have demanded that the corps apply for state permits before beginning work, and New Jersey's ranking representative on the 16-member Delaware River Port Authority has said the state would not support the deepening unless Pennsylvania and Delaware accepted equal amounts of sludge.
Dehydrating large amounts of sludge produced by sewage treatment plants is difficult.
Hydrothermal processing of sludge has been suggested as a promising solution to deal with the considerable amounts of sludge produced worldwide.
