A critical review of resource recovery from municipal wastewater treatment plants–market supply potentials, technologies and bottlenecks

P Kehrein, M Van Loosdrecht, P Osseweijer… - … : Water Research & …, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
In recent decades, academia has elaborated a wide range of technological solutions to
recover water, energy, fertiliser and other products from municipal wastewater treatment …

Biological production of medium-chain carboxylates through chain elongation: an overview

J Wang, Y Yin - Biotechnology advances, 2022 - Elsevier
Medium chain carboxylates (MCCs) have wide applications in various industries, but the
traditional MCCs production methods are costly and unsustainable. Anaerobic fermentation …

Medium chain carboxylic acids production from waste biomass: Current advances and perspectives

Q Wu, X Bao, W Guo, B Wang, Y Li, H Luo… - Biotechnology …, 2019 - Elsevier
Alternative chemicals to diverse fossil-fuel-based products is urgently needed to mitigate the
adverse impacts of fossil fuel depletion on human development. To this end, researchers …

Intermittent micro-aeration: New strategy to control volatile fatty acid accumulation in high organic loading anaerobic digestion

D Nguyen, Z Wu, S Shrestha, PH Lee, L Raskin… - Water Research, 2019 - Elsevier
This study developed an intermittent oxidation-reduction potential (ORP)-controlled micro-
aeration system for high solids anaerobic digestion (AD) of lignocellulosic biomass without …

Advances towards understanding long chain fatty acids-induced inhibition and overcoming strategies for efficient anaerobic digestion process

M Elsamadony, A Mostafa, M Fujii, A Tawfik, D Pant - Water Research, 2021 - Elsevier
The inhibition of the anaerobic digestion (AD) process, caused by long chain fatty acids
(LCFAs), has been considered as an important issue in the wastewater treatment sector …

[HTML][HTML] Consecutive lactate formation and chain elongation to reduce exogenous chemicals input in repeated-batch food waste fermentation

CA Contreras-Dávila, VJ Carrión, VR Vonk… - Water research, 2020 - Elsevier
The production of biochemicals from renewables through biorefinery processes is important
to reduce the anthropogenic impact on the environment. Chain elongation processes based …

Unveiling the mechanisms of medium-chain fatty acid production from waste activated sludge alkaline fermentation liquor through physiological, thermodynamic and …

SL Wu, J Sun, X Chen, W Wei, L Song, X Dai, BJ Ni - Water Research, 2020 - Elsevier
Effective sludge treatment with bioenergy production is attracting increasing interests as
large quantities of waste activated sludge (WAS) are produced during the wastewater …

Medium-Chain fatty acids and long-chain alcohols production from waste activated sludge via two-stage anaerobic fermentation

SL Wu, W Wei, J Sun, Q Xu, X Dai, BJ Ni - Water research, 2020 - Elsevier
Traditional bioenergy recovery in the form of short chain fatty acids (SCFAs) from waste
activated sludge (WAS) is generally limited by economic unattractiveness and complexity of …

A review on the bioenergetics of anaerobic microbial metabolism close to the thermodynamic limits and its implications for digestion applications

L Leng, P Yang, S Singh, H Zhuang, L Xu… - Bioresource …, 2018 - Elsevier
The exploration of the energetics of anaerobic digestion systems can reveal how
microorganisms cooperate efficiently for cell growth and methane production, especially …

Medium chain carboxylic acids from complex organic feedstocks by mixed culture fermentation

V De Groof, M Coma, T Arnot, DJ Leak, AB Lanham - Molecules, 2019 - mdpi.com
Environmental pressures caused by population growth and consumerism require the
development of resource recovery from waste, hence a circular economy approach. The …