The widespread application of conventional activated sludge treatment process has been
employed to deal with a variety of municipal and industrial sewage. While the generation of …

Sludge reduction via microbial metabolism does not require extra energy and resource
inputs and thus merits attention as an alternative approach for sustainable wastewater …

Sludge Reduction Technologies in Wastewater Treatment Plants is a review of the sludge
reduction techniques integrated in wastewater treatment plants with detailed chapters on the …

This paper studied in detail the sludge disintegration and supernatant changes during
ozonation and investigated the possible mechanisms. Ozone effectively lysed the sludge …

The problem of excess sludge handling produced during wastewater treatment is
undeniable reality of grave concern with increasingly stringent legislations. The sludge …

Microbiological endogenous processes in biological wastewater treatment systems (BWTSs)
refer to combinations of biological and ecological mechanisms and processes, including …

Sludge reduction in a conventional activated sludge (CAS) process combined with a
recycled sludge reactor where Tubifex tubifex (one of Oligochaeta) was inoculated was …

Experiments to characterize retained sludge in a down-flow hanging sponge (DHS) reactor
fed with upflow anaerobic sludge blanket (UASB) treated sewage under moderate …

Composting process of sewage sludge requires a preprocessing step in order to prepare the
appropriate mixture of dewatered sludge (Xs) with amendment (Xa), bulking agent (Xb) …

Shear, in the form of vigorous aeration, is used to control fouling in membrane bioreactor
(MBR) systems. However, shear also influences the physicochemical and biological …