A critical factor which controls the socio-economic development of any nation is “energy”.
With depleting fossil fuels, there is a shift in focus to lignocellulosic biorefinery. The review …

Advanced oxidation processes (AOPs) are powerful methods that were traditionally used for
treatment of hazardous materials. Based on their resourcefulness, these methods have …

Pre-treatments for waste activated sludge (WAS) are, in most cases, an attempt to increase
the biodegradation and/or improve hydrolysis rate of WAS after anaerobic digestion. This …

Lignocellulosic and waste materials represent a considerable potential for biofuel
production. Currently, they are not fully utilised due to low biofuel yields from biological …

Most of the pretreatments to sewage sludge in lab-scale studies show high potentials to be
implemented in an anaerobic digester since they produce an increase in the biogas …

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 …

In recent years, microwave (MW) irradiation has gained widespread popularity as an
effective thermal method for sludge treatment, mainly due to its rapid and selective heating …

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 …

The aim of this study was to evaluate the effect of microwave pretreatment on the
solubilisation and anaerobic digestion of microalgae–bacterial biomass cultivated in high …

In the present study, the sludge was pretreated with microwave irradiation and low-
temperature thermal method, both conducted under the same temperature range (30–100° …