Anaerobic co-digestion process for biogas production: Progress, challenges and perspectives

K Hagos, J Zong, D Li, C Liu, X Lu - Renewable and sustainable energy …, 2017 - Elsevier
Globally, there is increasing awareness that renewable energy and energy efficiency are
vital for both creating new economic opportunities and controlling the environmental …

Resource recovery from wastewater by biological technologies: opportunities, challenges, and prospects

D Puyol, DJ Batstone, T Hülsen, S Astals… - Frontiers in …, 2017 - frontiersin.org
Limits in resource availability are driving a change in current societal production systems,
changing the focus from residues treatment, such as wastewater treatment, toward resource …

The role of additives on anaerobic digestion: a review

MS Romero-Güiza, J Vila, J Mata-Alvarez… - … and Sustainable Energy …, 2016 - Elsevier
Anaerobic digestion is a worldwide technology for the treatment of organic waste streams
with clear environmental benefits including generation of methane as renewable energy …

Pretreatment and co-digestion of wastewater sludge for biogas production: Recent research advances and trends

D Elalami, H Carrere, F Monlau, K Abdelouahdi… - … and Sustainable Energy …, 2019 - Elsevier
Currently, sludge is not considered as a waste any more, since it is capable of producing
valuable products. Besides land disposal and thermochemical processes (ie pyrolysis …

Anaerobic co-digestion of wastewater sludge: A review of potential co-substrates and operating factors for improved methane yield

WL Chow, S Chong, JW Lim, YJ Chan, MF Chong… - Processes, 2020 - mdpi.com
Anaerobic digestion has been widely employed in waste treatment for its ability to capture
methane gas released as a product during the digestion. Certain wastes, however, cannot …

Anaerobic co-digestion: A critical review of mathematical modelling for performance optimization

S Xie, FI Hai, X Zhan, W Guo, HH Ngo, WE Price… - Bioresource …, 2016 - Elsevier
Anaerobic co-digestion (AcoD) is a pragmatic approach to simultaneously manage organic
wastes and produce renewable energy. This review demonstrates the need for improving …

Utilization of the residual glycerol from biodiesel production for renewable energy generation

J McNutt, J Yang - Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 2017 - Elsevier
A rapid growth in biodiesel production has naturally led to a surplus of crude glycerol
generated. Due to the impurities present in the crude glycerol, expensive refining processes …

Mathematical modelling of anaerobic digestion processes: applications and future needs

DJ Batstone, D Puyol, X Flores-Alsina… - … in Environmental Science …, 2015 - Springer
Anaerobic process modelling is a mature and well-established field, largely guided by a
mechanistic model structure that is defined by our understanding of underlying processes …

Polystyrene nanoplastics reshape the anaerobic granular sludge for recovering methane from wastewater

W Wei, Q Hao, Z Chen, T Bao, BJ Ni - Water research, 2020 - Elsevier
Wastewater has been identified as an important carrier for nanoplastics, which could elicit
unintended impacts on critical microbial processes. However, the long-term impacts of …

A review of sludge pretreatment methods and co-digestion to boost biogas production and energy self-sufficiency in wastewater treatment plants

IV Junior, R de Almeida, MC Cammarota - Journal of Water Process …, 2021 - Elsevier
Regardless of the water sanitation infrastructure and the degree of water pollution
abatement that it could promote, the debate has intensified about the adaptation of sewage …