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 …

Phase separated pretreatment strategies for enhanced waste activated sludge disintegration in anaerobic digestion: An outlook and recent trends

VG Sharmila, G Kumar, P Sivashanmugham… - Bioresource …, 2022 - Elsevier
A significant ecological problem was developed on disposing the enormous amounts of
waste activated sludge (WAS) produced by traditional wastewater treatment. There have …

Enhancing methane production from dewatered waste activated sludge through alkaline and photocatalytic pretreatment

A Maryam, M Badshah, M Sabeeh, SJ Khan - Bioresource Technology, 2021 - Elsevier
Waste activated sludge generated from wastewater treatment plants makes an abundant
source of biomass. Its effective utilization through anaerobic digestion (AD) requires …

A review on evaluation of applied pretreatment methods of wastewater towards sustainable H2 generation: Energy efficiency analysis

VG Sharmila, JR Banu, SH Kim, G Kumar - International Journal of …, 2020 - Elsevier
This study reviewed the recent updates on the pretreatment methods employed towards the
enhancement of hydrogen production. Low hydrogen yield was considered to be a current …

[HTML][HTML] A review on energy and cost effective phase separated pretreatment of biosolids

JR Banu, TP Devi, RY Kannah, S Kavitha, SH Kim… - Water Research, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract Extracellular Polymeric Substances (EPS) existent in anaerobic sludge proves to be
a barrier for sludge liquefaction and biomass lysis efficiency. Hence EPS deaggregation …

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 …

Synergistic effects of magnetic nanomaterials on post-digestate for biogas production

EK Tetteh, G Amo-Duodu, S Rathilal - Molecules, 2021 - mdpi.com
Digestate is characterized by high water content, and in the water and wastewater treatment
settings, necessitates both large storage capacities and a high cost of disposal. By seeding …

Enhanced anaerobic co-digestion performance by using surface-annealed titanium spheres at different atmospheres

T Ke, S Yun, K Wang, J An, L Liu, J Liu - Bioresource Technology, 2022 - Elsevier
A series of surface-annealed titanium spheres (Ti-A, Ti-B, and Ti-C) in different atmospheres
were used as accelerants in anaerobic co-digestion (AcoD) systems under magnetic field …

Impact of novel deflocculant ZnO/Chitosan nanocomposite film in disperser pretreatment enhancing energy efficient anaerobic digestion: parameter assessment and …

JR Banu, VG Sharmila, RY Kannah, R Kanimozhi… - Chemosphere, 2022 - Elsevier
This paper proposed to interpret the novel method of extracellular polymeric substance
(EPS) removal in advance to sludge disintegration to enrich bioenergy generation. The …

Enhancing hydrogen production through anaerobic co-digestion of fruit waste with biosolids

A Sethupathy, C Arun, G Ravi Teja… - … Science and Health …, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
In the present study, anaerobic co-digestion process was carried out with 23 mixed
substrates proportion (MSP) of fruit waste (FRW), municipal wastewater treatment plant …