Up-flow anaerobic sludge blanket (UASB) technology for energy recovery: a review on state-of-the-art and recent technological advances

M Mainardis, M Buttazzoni, D Goi - Bioengineering, 2020 - mdpi.com
Up-flow anaerobic sludge blanket (UASB) reactor belongs to high-rate systems, able to
perform anaerobic reaction at reduced hydraulic retention time, if compared to traditional …

A critical review of microbial electrolysis cells coupled with anaerobic digester for enhanced biomethane recovery from high-strength feedstocks

Q Huang, Y Liu, BR Dhar - Critical Reviews in Environmental …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Anaerobic digestion (AD) is considered as a traditional method for biomethane recovery
from high-strength waste and wastewater. The limitations of conventional anaerobic …

Microbial co-occurrence network topological properties link with reactor parameters and reveal importance of low-abundance genera

B Guo, L Zhang, H Sun, M Gao, N Yu… - npj Biofilms and …, 2022 - nature.com
Operational factors and microbial interactions affect the ecology in anaerobic digestion
systems. From 12 lab-scale reactors operated under distinct engineering conditions …

High-loading food waste and blackwater anaerobic co-digestion: Maximizing bioenergy recovery

M Gao, L Zhang, Y Liu - Chemical Engineering Journal, 2020 - Elsevier
In this study, food waste (FW) was added into source-diverted blackwater (BW) to enhance
biomethane production using an upflow anaerobic sludge blanket (UASB) reactor at 35° C …

Boosting resilience of microbial electrolysis cell-assisted anaerobic digestion of blackwater with granular activated carbon amendment

Q Huang, Y Liu, BR Dhar - Bioresource Technology, 2023 - Elsevier
Poor hydrolysis and methanogenesis efficiencies remain the main challenges for blackwater
anaerobic digestion. This study investigated the performance of a granular activated carbon …

Explication of structural variations in the bacterial and archaeal community of anaerobic digestion sludges: an insight through metagenomics

AI Alalawy, Z Guo, FM Almutairi, HA El Rabey… - Journal of …, 2021 - Elsevier
Anaerobic digestion (AD) is a biological process, encompasses the treatment and
stabilization of complex organic matter to extract renewable biomethane fuel through …

Treatment of landfill leachate using photocatalytic based advanced oxidation process–a critical review

S Kanmani, AGB Dileepan - Journal of Environmental Management, 2023 - Elsevier
Landfill leachate is a discrete volumetric component of municipal solid waste; hence,
researchers and professionals are more concerned about it because of its obscurity …

[HTML][HTML] Key syntrophic partnerships identified in a granular activated carbon amended UASB treating municipal sewage under low temperature conditions

Y Zhang, B Guo, L Zhang, Y Liu - Bioresource technology, 2020 - Elsevier
Two laboratory-scale up-flow anaerobic sludge blankets (UASB) reactors, one with and one
without granular activated carbon (GAC), were operated for municipal sewage treatment at …

Enhancing methane production and organic loading capacity from high solid-content wastewater in modified granular activated carbon (GAC)-amended up-flow …

A Mou, N Yu, X Yang, Y Liu - Science of the Total Environment, 2024 - Elsevier
Anaerobic digestion of high solid-content wastewater is hindered by high organic loading
rates (OLRs). Granular activated carbon (GAC) was reported to promote direct interspecies …

Impacts of granular activated carbon addition on anaerobic granulation in blackwater treatment

L Zhang, Y Zhang, Y Yuan, A Mou, S Park, Y Liu - Environmental Research, 2022 - Elsevier
Upflow anaerobic sludge blanket (UASB) reactors, with or without granular activated carbon
(GAC) amendment, were applied for blackwater treatment. The impact of GAC on the …