Overview of pretreatment strategies for enhancing sewage sludge disintegration and subsequent anaerobic digestion: Current advances, full-scale application and …

G Zhen, X Lu, H Kato, Y Zhao, YY Li - Renewable and sustainable energy …, 2017‏ - Elsevier
Sewage sludge management is now becoming a serious issue all over the world. Anaerobic
digestion is a simple and well-studied process capable of biologically converting the …

Principles and potential of thermal hydrolysis of sewage sludge to enhance anaerobic digestion

P Gahlot, G Balasundaram, VK Tyagi, AE Atabani… - Environmental …, 2022‏ - Elsevier
Sewage sludge is rich source of carbon, nutrients, and trace elements and can be subjected
to proper treatment before disposal to fulfill government legislation and protect receiving …

The application of microwave heating in bioenergy: A review on the microwave pre-treatment and upgrading technologies for biomass

ET Kostas, D Beneroso, JP Robinson - Renewable and Sustainable …, 2017‏ - Elsevier
Bioenergy, derived from biomass and/or biological (or biomass-derived) waste residues, has
been acknowledged as a sustainable and clean burning source of renewable energy with …

Recent developments on thermal municipal sludge pretreatment technologies for enhanced anaerobic digestion

G Kor-Bicakci, C Eskicioglu - Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 2019‏ - Elsevier
Sludge management is still one of the most challenging issues in wastewater treatment
plants due to a dramatic increase in sludge production, high sludge disposal costs, legal …

Pre-treatments to enhance the biodegradability of waste activated sludge: elucidating the rate limiting step

A Gonzalez, A Hendriks, JB Van Lier… - Biotechnology Advances, 2018‏ - Elsevier
Pre-treatments for waste activated sludge (WAS) are, in most cases, an attempt to increase
the biodegradation and/or improve hydrolysis rate of WAS after anaerobic digestion. This …

The effects of substrate pre-treatment on anaerobic digestion systems: a review

M Carlsson, A Lagerkvist, F Morgan-Sagastume - Waste management, 2012‏ - Elsevier
Focus is placed on substrate pre-treatment in anaerobic digestion (AD) as a means of
increasing biogas yields using today's diversified substrate sources. Current pre-treatment …

Microwave-assisted conversion of biomass and waste materials to biofuels

ZMA Bundhoo - Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 2018‏ - Elsevier
Lignocellulosic and waste materials represent a considerable potential for biofuel
production. Currently, they are not fully utilised due to low biofuel yields from biological …

Optimization and microbial community analysis of anaerobic co-digestion of food waste and sewage sludge based on microwave pretreatment

J Zhang, C Lv, J Tong, J Liu, J Liu, D Yu, Y Wang… - Bioresource …, 2016‏ - Elsevier
The effects of microwave pretreatment (MW) on co-digestion of food waste (FW) and sewage
sludge (SS) have never been investigated. In this study, a series of mesophilic biochemical …

Microwave irradiation: A sustainable way for sludge treatment and resource recovery

VK Tyagi, SL Lo - Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 2013‏ - Elsevier
In recent years, microwave (MW) irradiation has gained widespread popularity as an
effective thermal method for sludge treatment, mainly due to its rapid and selective heating …

[کتاب][B] Sludge reduction technologies in wastewater treatment plants

P Foladori, G Andreottola, G Ziglio - 2010‏ - library.oapen.org
Sludge Reduction Technologies in Wastewater Treatment Plants is a review of the sludge
reduction techniques integrated in wastewater treatment plants with detailed chapters on the …