Thermal treatment in Australia is gaining interest due to legislative changes, waste reduction
goals, and the need to address contaminants' risks in biosolids used for agriculture. The …

Slow pyrolysis is a promising technology to convert sewage sludge into char: a stable solid
product with high carbon and phosphorus content. However, due to its heavy metals content …

Microbial electrochemical technology (MET) is a rapidly growing environmental technology,
bringing together the disciplines of microbiology, electrochemistry, materials science and …

Wastewater from snack foods manufacturing processes may contain significant amounts of
pollutants that may affect receiving municipal treatment facilities. Their removal with onsite …

Biosolids have been traditionally used as a beneficial resource in the agricultural industry.
However, contaminants of emerging concern (CECs) threaten their reuse due to concerns of …

This study aimed to synthesize chitosan-modified biochars with the objective of producing
an efficient biosorbents for immobilization of imazapic and imazapyr herbicides in soil. Two …

Heavy metal is a term commonly envisaged to be those metals whose density surpasses 5 g
per cubic centimeter. An enormous number of elements fall into this group, but Cd, Cr, Cu …

Pyrolysis is a thermochemical process that consists of the degradation of organic polymers
and biomass minerals in lignocellulose materials. At low pyrolysis temperature (300–400° …

The composting of sewage sludge and maize straw mixtures was investigated in this study.
The aim was to analyze the influence of different proportions of sewage sludge and maize …

The pyrolysis process of sewage sludge (SS) in fluidized bed has the characteristics of high
speed heat-mass transfer rate, which challenges the reliability of thermal analysis methods …