“Food waste-wastewater-energy/resource” nexus: integrating food waste management with wastewater treatment towards urban sustainability

F Zan, A Iqbal, X Lu, X Wu, G Chen - Water Research, 2022‏ - Elsevier
Sustainable food waste management is a global issue with high priority for improving food
security and conserving natural resources and ecosystems. Diverting food waste from the …

Anaerobic membrane bioreactors (AnMBRs) for municipal wastewater treatment-potential benefits, constraints, and future perspectives: An updated review

A Aslam, SJ Khan, HMA Shahzad - Science of the total Environment, 2022‏ - Elsevier
Abstract The application of Anaerobic Membrane Bioreactors (AnMBRs) for municipal
wastewater treatment has been made sufficiently sustainable for practical implementations …

Food waste recovery into energy in a circular economy perspective: A comprehensive review of aspects related to plant operation and environmental assessment

C Ingrao, N Faccilongo, L Di Gioia… - Journal of Cleaner …, 2018‏ - Elsevier
Food Waste (FW) is increasingly viewed as a resource to be diverted from landfilling. In a
circular economy where FW management is developed sustainably, FW has great potentials …

Towards sustainable and energy efficient municipal wastewater treatment by up-concentration of organics

H Guven, RK Dereli, H Ozgun, ME Ersahin… - Progress in Energy and …, 2019‏ - Elsevier
In the last decades, energy scarcity has become an important issue globally. Renewable
energy sources have gained importance due to limited fossil fuel reserves and increased …

Potentialities and limits of some non-thermal technologies to improve sustainability of food processing

L Picart-Palmade, C Cunault, D Chevalier-Lucia… - Frontiers in …, 2019‏ - frontiersin.org
In the whole food production chain, from the farm to the fork, food manufacturing steps have
a large environmental impact. Despite significant efforts made to optimize heat recovery or …

Environmental life cycle assessment of treatment and management strategies for food waste and sewage sludge

J Nyitrai, XF Almansa, K Zhu, S Banerjee, TR Hawkins… - Water Research, 2023‏ - Elsevier
A consequential life cycle assessment (LCA) was utilized to compare the environmental
impacts of food waste and sewage sludge management strategies. The strategies included …

Environmental and economic impacts of managing nutrients in digestate derived from sewage sludge and high-strength organic waste

KD Orner, S Smith, S Nordahl… - Environmental …, 2022‏ - ACS Publications
Increasingly stringent limits on nutrient discharges are motivating water resource recovery
facilities (WRRFs) to consider the implementation of sidestream nutrient removal or recovery …

Comparative environmental and economic life cycle assessment of high solids anaerobic co-digestion for biosolids and organic waste management

E Lee, DSBL Oliveira, LSBL Oliveira, E Jimenez, Y Kim… - Water Research, 2020‏ - Elsevier
Abstract High-Solids Anaerobic co-Digestion (HS-AcD) of sewage sludge (biosolids) with
the organic fraction of municipal solid waste is a promising waste management alternative …

Performance evaluation and energy potential analysis of anaerobic membrane bioreactor (AnMBR) in the treatment of simulated milk wastewater

SNF Moideen, S Krishnan, YY Li, MH Hassim… - Chemosphere, 2023‏ - Elsevier
An anaerobic membrane bioreactor (AnMBR) was employed as primary treatment unit for
anaerobic treatment of simulated wastewater to produce high effluent quality. A lab scale …

Elucidating microbial community adaptation to anaerobic co-digestion of fats, oils, and grease and food waste

YM Amha, P Sinha, J Lagman, M Gregori, AL Smith - Water research, 2017‏ - Elsevier
Despite growing interest in co-digestion and demonstrated process improvements (eg,
enhanced stability and biogas production), few studies have evaluated how co-digestion …