Current advances and future outlook on pretreatment techniques to enhance biosolids disintegration and anaerobic digestion: A critical review

U Uthirakrishnan, VG Sharmila, J Merrylin, SA Kumar… - Chemosphere, 2022 - Elsevier
Waste activated sludge (biosolids) treatment is intensely a major problem around the globe.
Anaerobic treatment is indeed a fundamental and most popular approach to convert organic …

Critical review for microwave pretreatment of waste-activated sludge prior to anaerobic digestion

YC Bozkurt, OG Apul - Current Opinion in Environmental Science & Health, 2020 - Elsevier
Sewage sludge generation is steadily rising because of urbanization and population
increase. Handling the excess sludge is a tedious and costly task. Although anaerobic …

Current status of applying microwave-associated catalysis for the degradation of organics in aqueous phase–a review

C Xue, Y Mao, W Wang, Z Song, X Zhao, J Sun… - Journal of …, 2019 - Elsevier
Interactions between microwaves and certain catalysts can lead to efficient, energy-directed
convergence of a relatively dispersed microwave field onto the reactive sites of the catalyst …

Disintegration of wastewater activated sludge (WAS) for improved biogas production

S Wacławek, K Grübel, D Silvestri, VVT Padil… - Energies, 2018 - mdpi.com
Due to rapid urbanization, the number of wastewater treatment plants (WWTP) has
increased, and so has the associated waste generated by them. Sustainable management …

[HTML][HTML] Intensification of Energy Production in the Anaerobic Digestion Process of Sewage Sludge Using Enzymatic Disintegration

B Macherzyński, E Popowska-Nowak… - Energies, 2024 - mdpi.com
This paper presents results of a study on changes in the physical and chemical properties of
papain-disintegrated sewage sludge subjected to methane fermentation and the effect of …

Fenton process effect on sludge disintegration

S Yildiz, A Cömert - International Journal of Environmental Health …, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
This study investigated the disintegration of sewage sludge through the Fenton process. The
study was conducted by both the conventional Fenton-type process (CFP)(Fe2+/H2O2) and …

Microwave-assisted sustainable co-digestion of sewage sludge and rapeseed cakes

K Grübel, M Kuglarz, S Wacławek, VVT Padil… - Energy Conversion and …, 2019 - Elsevier
The technological concept ensuring highly efficient co-digestion of by-products from the
production of biodiesel and sewage sludge was examined. Rapeseed cakes (RC) 1–5 …

Application of photocatalysis methods to enhance sludge disintegration

S Yildiz, A Olabi - Waste and Biomass Valorization, 2021 - Springer
This paper investigated the disintegration of waste sludge with different photocatalytic
processes. For this objective, the effects of initial pH, reaction time, TiO 2 amount with Fe 2+ …

Effects of microwave irradiation at various temperatures on biosludge disintegration

S Aslan, A Alhraishawi, M Ozturk - International Journal of …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
The waste biological sludge disintegration by using microwave irradiation was investigated
at a ram** rate of 2° C/min and 5 min holding time at various target temperatures …

A new method for assessment of the sludge disintegration degree with the use of differential centrifugal sedimentation

D Silvestri, S Wacławek, Z Gončuková… - Environmental …, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
ABSTRACT A novel method for assessing the disintegration degree (DD) of waste activated
sludge (WAS) with the use of differential centrifugal sedimentation method (DCS) was …