Biochar-based geopolymer nanocomposite for COD and phenol removal from agro-industrial biorefinery wastewater: kinetic modelling, microbial community, and …

AH Jagaba, IM Lawal, AA Ghfar, AK Usman, NSA Yaro… - Chemosphere, 2023 - Elsevier
Agro-industrial biorefinery effluent (AIBW) is considered a highly polluting source
responsible for environmental contamination. It contains high loads of chemical oxygen …

A review on the application of biochar as an innovative and sustainable biocarrier material in moving bed biofilm reactors for dye removal from environmental matrices

AH Jagaba, I Abdulazeez, DU Lawal, AC Affam… - Environmental …, 2024 - Springer
Dye decolorization through biological treatment techniques has been gaining momentum as
it is based on suspended and attached growth biomass in both batch and continuous …

Agricultural wastewater treatment using oil palm waste activated hydrochar for reuse in plant irrigation: synthesis, characterization, and process optimization

AH Jagaba, FM Bashir, IM Lawal, AK Usman… - Agriculture, 2023 - mdpi.com
The best possible use of natural resources and the large amounts of trash produced by
industrial and human activity is necessary for sustainable development. Due to the threat of …

[HTML][HTML] Bacterial biofilm attachment to sustainable carriers as a clean-up strategy for wastewater treatment: A review

A Lago, V Rocha, O Barros, B Silva… - Journal of Water Process …, 2024 - Elsevier
Wastewater treatment using biofilm technology with sustainable carriers contributes towards
the circular bioeconomy. The use of renewable biological materials and wastes as novel …

Performance of rice husk biocarrier on ammonia nitrogen removal in the MBBR treating aquaculture wastewater using biological attached growth process …

F Alitaleshi, A Daghbandan, A Pendashteh - Journal of Environmental …, 2024 - Elsevier
This study investigates the feasibility of using rice husk (RH) as a cost-effective and
environmentally friendly bio-carrier for immobilizing isolated microorganisms to treat …

[HTML][HTML] Nitrification characteristics and microbial community changes during conversion of freshwater to seawater in down-flow hanging sponge reactor

T Akamine, M Nagai, T Watari, H Netsu, N Adlin… - Ecotoxicology and …, 2024 - Elsevier
In recirculating aquaculture systems (RAS), maintaining water quality in aquaculture tanks is
a paramount factor for effective fish production. A down-flow hanging sponge (DHS) reactor …

Nickel augmented biochar for sustaining produced water treatment to decarbonize oil and gas industrial waste using anaerobic-aerobic granular cylindrical periodic …

AH Jagaba, DU Lawal, MA Yassin, I Abdulazeez… - Environmental …, 2024 - Elsevier
This study assessed the efficacy of granular cylindrical periodic discontinuous batch reactors
(GC-PDBRs) for produced water (PW) treatment by employing eggshell and waste activated …

New insights into nitrogen removal by divalent iron-enhanced moving bed biofilm reactor: Performance, interfacial interaction and co-occurrence network

M Sheng, Z Ye, F Zhu, D Pan, S Shao, X Wu - Bioresource Technology, 2024 - Elsevier
A divalent iron-mediated moving bed biofilm reactor with intermittent aeration was
developed to enhance the nitrogen removal at low carbon-to-nitrogen ratios. The study …

Magnetic porous microspheres enhancing the anaerobic digestion of sewage sludge: Synergistic free and attached methanogenic consortia

H Geng, Y Xu, R Liu, D Yang, X Dai - Water Research, 2024 - Elsevier
The addition of exogenous materials is a commonly reported method for promoting the
anaerobic digestion (AD) of sludge. However, most exogenous materials are nano-sized …

Study on the performance of a new type of combined packing biofilm reactor treating wastewater

RJ Zhao, Z Zhang, SS Yang, G Min, SJ Liu… - Environmental …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
The present work investigates the performance of a biofilm reactor filled with a new type of
combined packing used to treat wastewater and explores a new technology approach for the …