Biotechnological strategies for bio-transforming biosolid into resources toward circular bio-economy: a review

MK Awasthi, E Singh, P Binod, R Sindhu… - … and Sustainable Energy …, 2022 - Elsevier
Biosolids are the biological organic matter extracted from various treatment processes of
wastewater which are considered as a rich source of energy and nutrients. The most …

Current advances and future outlook on pretreatment techniques to enhance biosolids disintegration and anaerobic digestion: A critical review

U Uthirakrishnan, VG Sharmila, J Merrylin, SA Kumar… - Chemosphere, 2022 - Elsevier
Waste activated sludge (biosolids) treatment is intensely a major problem around the globe.
Anaerobic treatment is indeed a fundamental and most popular approach to convert organic …

Highly efficient sunlight-driven photocatalytic degradation of malachite green dye over reduced graphene oxide-supported CuS nanoparticles

SI El-Hout, SM El-Sheikh, A Gaber, A Shawky… - Journal of Alloys and …, 2020 - Elsevier
A facile co-precipitation technique, including in-situ reduction of graphene oxide (GO), is
used to synthesize rGO/CuS nanocomposites. The photocatalytic performance of CuS was …

Phase separated pretreatment strategies for enhanced waste activated sludge disintegration in anaerobic digestion: An outlook and recent trends

VG Sharmila, G Kumar, P Sivashanmugham… - Bioresource …, 2022 - Elsevier
A significant ecological problem was developed on disposing the enormous amounts of
waste activated sludge (WAS) produced by traditional wastewater treatment. There have …

Enhancement of biogas production from agricultural wastes via pre-treatment with advanced oxidation processes

F Almomani, RR Bhosale, MAM Khraisheh… - Fuel, 2019 - Elsevier
The effects of advanced oxidation processes (AOPs) including Fenton, ozone, and ozone
combined with Fe (II) and H 2 O 2 on disintegration/solubilization of three mixed agricultural …

Enhancing methane production from dewatered waste activated sludge through alkaline and photocatalytic pretreatment

A Maryam, M Badshah, M Sabeeh, SJ Khan - Bioresource Technology, 2021 - Elsevier
Waste activated sludge generated from wastewater treatment plants makes an abundant
source of biomass. Its effective utilization through anaerobic digestion (AD) requires …

Valorization of biowastes for clean energy production, environmental depollution and soil fertility

RK Srivastava, NP Shetti, KR Reddy… - Journal of environmental …, 2023 - Elsevier
The mother earth is a source of natural resources that, in conjunction with anthropogenic
activities, generates a wide spectrum of different biowastes. These biomaterials can be used …

A review on evaluation of applied pretreatment methods of wastewater towards sustainable H2 generation: Energy efficiency analysis

VG Sharmila, JR Banu, SH Kim, G Kumar - International Journal of …, 2020 - Elsevier
This study reviewed the recent updates on the pretreatment methods employed towards the
enhancement of hydrogen production. Low hydrogen yield was considered to be a current …

[HTML][HTML] A review on energy and cost effective phase separated pretreatment of biosolids

JR Banu, TP Devi, RY Kannah, S Kavitha, SH Kim… - Water Research, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract Extracellular Polymeric Substances (EPS) existent in anaerobic sludge proves to be
a barrier for sludge liquefaction and biomass lysis efficiency. Hence EPS deaggregation …

Enzymatic treatments for biosolids: An outlook and recent trends

OJ Quintero-García, H Pérez-Soler… - International Journal of …, 2023 - mdpi.com
Wastewaters are nutrient-rich organic materials containing significant concentrations of
different nutrients, dissolved and particulate matter, microorganisms, solids, heavy metals …