Achieving energy neutrality in wastewater treatment plants through energy savings and enhancing renewable energy production

M Maktabifard, E Zaborowska, J Makinia - Reviews in Environmental …, 2018 - Springer
Wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) consume high amounts of energy which is mostly
purchased from the grid. During the past years, many ongoing measures have taken place …

Monitoring and diagnosis of energy consumption in wastewater treatment plants. A state of the art and proposals for improvement

S Longo, BM d'Antoni, M Bongards, A Chaparro… - Applied energy, 2016 - Elsevier
In response to strong growth in energy intensive wastewater treatment, public agencies and
industry began to explore and implement measures to ensure achievement of the targets …

Twenty years of China's water pollution control: Experiences and challenges

W Tang, Y Pei, H Zheng, Y Zhao, L Shu, H Zhang - Chemosphere, 2022 - Elsevier
Water pollution is a major environmental problem worldwide, especially in develo**
countries. China's environmental protection strategies have been pushed to the highest …

Global and regional potential of wastewater as a water, nutrient and energy source

M Qadir, P Drechsel, B Jiménez Cisneros… - Natural resources …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
There is a proactive interest in recovering water, nutrients and energy from waste streams
with the increase in municipal wastewater volumes and innovations in resource recovery …

The relevance of phosphorus and iron chemistry to the recovery of phosphorus from wastewater: a review

P Wilfert, PS Kumar, L Korving… - … science & technology, 2015 - ACS Publications
The addition of iron is a convenient way for removing phosphorus from wastewater, but this
is often considered to limit phosphorus recovery. Struvite precipitation is currently used to …

Pathways to a net-zero-carbon water sector through energy-extracting wastewater technologies

A Rani, SW Snyder, H Kim, Z Lei, SY Pan - NPJ Clean Water, 2022 - nature.com
The energy-consuming and carbon-intensive wastewater treatment plants could become
significant energy producers and recycled organic and metallic material generators, thereby …

The feasibility and challenges of energy self-sufficient wastewater treatment plants

Y Gu, Y Li, X Li, P Luo, H Wang, ZP Robinson, X Wang… - Applied Energy, 2017 - Elsevier
Energy efficiency optimization is crucial for wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) because
of increasing energy costs and concerns about global climate change. Energy efficiency …

Comparative analysis of energy intensity and carbon emissions in wastewater treatment in USA, Germany, China and South Africa

H Wang, Y Yang, AA Keller, X Li, S Feng, Y Dong, F Li - Applied Energy, 2016 - Elsevier
Currently almost all wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) require a large amount of energy
input to process the influent, mostly as electricity, and the associated carbon emissions are …

Energy self-sufficient wastewater treatment plants: feasibilities and challenges

Y Gu, Y Li, X Li, P Luo, H Wang, X Wang, J Wu, F Li - Energy Procedia, 2017 - Elsevier
Optimization of energy efficiency is important for wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs).
Increasing energy costs and concerns about global climate change highlight the need to …