Oily wastewater treatment: Overview of conventional and modern methods, challenges, and future opportunities

K Abuhasel, M Kchaou, M Alquraish, Y Munusamy… - Water, 2021 - mdpi.com
Industrial developments in the oil and gas, petrochemical, pharmaceutical and food sector
have contributed to the large production of oily wastewater worldwide. Oily wastewater …

[HTML][HTML] A review of the state of development of aerobic granular sludge technology over the last 20 years: Full-scale applications and resource recovery

R Hamza, A Rabii, F Ezzahraoui, G Morgan… - Case Studies in …, 2022 - Elsevier
The aerobic granular sludge (AGS) biotechnology has gained increasing interest during the
past two decades as a potential replacement of the conventional activated sludge (CAS) …

Aerobic granular sludge technology: mechanisms of granulation and biotechnological applications

YV Nancharaiah, GKK Reddy - Bioresource technology, 2018 - Elsevier
Aerobic granular sludge (AGS) is a novel microbial community which allows simultaneous
removal of carbon, nitrogen, phosphorus and other pollutants in a single sludge system …

Effect of different forms and components of EPS on sludge aggregation during granulation process of aerobic granular sludge

T Peng, Y Wang, J Wang, F Fang, P Yan, Z Liu - Chemosphere, 2022 - Elsevier
The characteristics of three forms of extracellular polymeric substances (EPS) and their
component proteins (PN) and polysaccharides (PS) during the granulation process of …

Membrane bioreactor (MBR) technology for wastewater treatment and reclamation: membrane fouling

OT Iorhemen, RA Hamza, JH Tay - Membranes, 2016 - mdpi.com
The membrane bioreactor (MBR) has emerged as an efficient compact technology for
municipal and industrial wastewater treatment. The major drawback impeding wider …

An integrative review of granular sludge for the biological removal of nutrients and recalcitrant organic matter from wastewater

MKH Winkler, C Meunier, O Henriet, J Mahillon… - Chemical Engineering …, 2018 - Elsevier
Granular sludge aggregates are particular types of biofilms that display significantly different
metrics and physical-chemical characteristics than activated sludge flocs. The efficiency of …

The mechanisms of granulation of activated sludge in wastewater treatment, its optimization, and impact on effluent quality

BM Wilén, R Liébana, F Persson, O Modin… - Applied microbiology …, 2018 - Springer
Granular activated sludge has gained increasing interest due to its potential in treating
wastewater in a compact and efficient way. It is well-established that activated sludge can …

Role of extracellular polymeric substances (EPS) production in bioaggregation: application to wastewater treatment

Z Ding, I Bourven, G Guibaud… - Applied microbiology …, 2015 - Springer
This paper reviews the formation, structure, and stability of bioaggregates with an emphasis
on the composition and distribution of extracellular polymeric substances (EPS) and their …

Microbial population dynamics and ecosystem functions of anoxic/aerobic granular sludge in sequencing batch reactors operated at different organic loading rates

E Szabó, R Liébana, M Hermansson, O Modin… - Frontiers in …, 2017 - frontiersin.org
The granular sludge process is an effective, low-footprint alternative to conventional
activated sludge wastewater treatment. The architecture of the microbial granules allows the …

Aerobic granular processes: current research trends

Q Zhang, J Hu, DJ Lee - Bioresource Technology, 2016 - Elsevier
Aerobic granules are large biological aggregates with compact interiors that can be used in
efficient wastewater treatment. This mini-review presents new researches on the …