The treatment and disposal of sludge are the present challenges of the world. Dewatering and drying are the essential pretreatment for any sludge disposal procedure. The present methods were investigated,including thickening,dewatering,and drying, in order to enhance the properties of dewatering and drying of sludge. Several important characteristics were elaborated,in which methods,effects,and the research progresses of those three methods were involved.It is pointed out that the physical-chemical conditioning combined with mechanical dewatering is the most popular dewatering technology,while...