The production and management of sludge in wastewater treatment plants is a significant
environmental issue. Sludge is a complex material, treated primarily by biological …

With rapid world population growth and strict environmental regulations, increasingly large
volumes of sludge are being produced in today's wastewater treatment plants (WWTP) with …

Hydrothermal liquefaction (HTL) is a thermochemical process for the conversion of biomass
into bio-crude oil. However, treatment of post-HTL aqueous by-products is an emerging …

Chemical oxidation technologies are often employed for the treatment of complex industrial
effluents that are not amenable to conventional biological methods. The role of chemical …

Studies on the development and evolution of anaerobic digestion (AD) pretreatments are
nowadays becoming widespread, due to the outstanding benefits that these processes …

Bisphenol A (BPA), an endocrine disrupting compound largely used in plastic and paper
industry, ends up in aquatic systems via wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) among other …

Water Quality Monitoring and Management: Basis, Technology and Case Studies presents
recent innovations in operations management for water quality monitoring. It highlights the …

The effects of various pretreatment methods, including thermo-acid, thermo-alkaline,
ultrasonic-alkaline and ultrasonic-acid, on solubilization and subsequent acidification …

Waste activated sludge (WAS) is the main residue of wastewater treatment plants, which can
be considered an environmental problem of prime concern due to its increasing generation …

The aim of this work was to study in depth the behavior and optimization of a novel process,
called advanced thermal hydrolysis (ATH), to determine its utility as a pretreatment (sludge …