Thermochemical processing of sewage sludge to energy and fuel: Fundamentals, challenges and considerations

SSA Syed-Hassan, Y Wang, S Hu, S Su… - … and sustainable energy …, 2017 - Elsevier
Sewage sludge, the inevitable by-product of municipal wastewater treatment plant
operation, is a key issue in many countries due to its increasing volume and the impacts …

Land application of municipal sewage sludge: Human health risk assessment of heavy metals

E Yakamercan, A Ari, A Aygün - Journal of Cleaner Production, 2021 - Elsevier
Land application of municipal sewage sludge has become an attractive option and disposal
method used worldwide. Hence, the suitability of the sludge with regards to toxic and …

Assessment of heavy metal pollution and potential ecological risk in sewage sludge from municipal wastewater treatment plant located in the most industrialized …

M Tytła - International journal of environmental research and …, 2019 - mdpi.com
This study aimed to assess the pollution and potential ecological risk of seven heavy metals
(Cd, Cr, Cu, Hg, Ni, Pb, and Zn) in the sewage sludge collected from a wastewater treatment …

Opportunities regarding the use of technologies of energy recovery from sewage sludge

AM Zaharioiu, F Bucura, RE Ionete, F Marin… - SN Applied …, 2021 - Springer
Based on the global need to efficiently eliminate highly produced amounts of sewage
sludge, alternative technologies are required to be practically developed. Reduction of …

Digestion procedure and determination of heavy metals in sewage sludge—An analytical problem

A Turek, K Wieczorek, WM Wolf - Sustainability, 2019 - mdpi.com
Huge amounts of sewage sludge produced globally is a substantial environmental threat
and require rational handling. Application in agriculture is an economical and relatively …

Effect of sewage sludge-based fertilizers on biomass growth and heavy metal accumulation in plants

H Kominko, K Gorazda, Z Wzorek - Journal of environmental management, 2022 - Elsevier
This study was focused on an assessment of the agronomic efficiency of organo-mineral
fertilizers based on sewage sludge and possible accumulation of heavy metals in plant …

Diclofenac removal from the wastewater using activated sludge and analysis of multidrug resistant bacteria from the sludge

MS Elshikh, DS Hussein, FS Al-Khattaf… - Environmental …, 2022 - Elsevier
Diclofenac is an anti-inflammatory drug and has been frequently detected from the
wastewater. In the present study, factors affecting diclofenac adsorption on sewage sludge …

Sewage sludge and phytomass co-pyrolysis and the gasification of its chars: A kinetics and reaction mechanism study

B Urych, A Smoliński - Fuel, 2021 - Elsevier
This paper presents the kinetics and mechanisms of pyrolysis and gasification processes of
sewage sludge and phytomass blends as well as their application in gas conversion …

Identification of the chemical forms of heavy metals in municipal sewage sludge as a critical element of ecological risk assessment in terms of its agricultural or natural …

M Tytła - International Journal of Environmental Research and …, 2020 - mdpi.com
The present study aimed to demonstrate that identification of the chemical forms of heavy
metals in sewage sludge produced in municipal Wastewater Treatment Plants (WWTPs) is a …

[HTML][HTML] Towards resource recovery-oriented solutions in agriculture exploiting structural extracellular polymeric substances (sEPS) extracted from aerobic granular …

B Pagliaccia, R Campo, E Carretti, M Severi… - Chemical Engineering …, 2024 - Elsevier
In aerobic granular sludge (AGS) for wastewater treatment, microorganisms are embedded
in a matrix of extracellular polymeric substances (EPS). A fraction of EPS, the so-called …