This paper focuses on the returned sludge between oxidation ditch and secondary settling tank of Tuanzhou sewage treatment plant in Yiyang and studies the influence of ultrasonic treatment on the supernatant of excess sludge. The results have showed that the COD and TN content in the supernatant linearly increase as ultrasonic time increases, and the increasing rate starts to decrease after ultrasonic treatment for 15 minutes; the SS content is reduced first and increased later as ultrasonic time increases, and it reaches the minimum value in the 15 minutes after ultrasonic treatment; as ultra...