Coagulation/flocculation in dewatering of sludge: a review

H Wei, B Gao, J Ren, A Li, H Yang - Water research, 2018 - Elsevier
Sludge disposal is an integral part of wastewater treatment systems, and its cost usually
accounts for more than half of the total operation cost. Sludge disposal technology is facing …

The application of microwave heating in bioenergy: A review on the microwave pre-treatment and upgrading technologies for biomass

ET Kostas, D Beneroso, JP Robinson - Renewable and Sustainable …, 2017 - Elsevier
Bioenergy, derived from biomass and/or biological (or biomass-derived) waste residues, has
been acknowledged as a sustainable and clean burning source of renewable energy with …

Fe (II) catalyzing sodium percarbonate facilitates the dewaterability of waste activated sludge: performance, mechanism, and implication

Y Li, Y Zhu, D Wang, G Yang, L Pan, Q Wang, BJ Ni… - Water research, 2020 - Elsevier
In this work, Fe (II) catalyzing sodium percarbonate (Fe (II)/SPC) was managed to facilitate
waste activated sludge (WAS) dewatering for the first time. The results showed that after …

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 …

Sludge-derived iron-carbon material enhancing the removal of refractory organics in landfill leachate: Characteristics optimization, removal mechanism, and molecular …

X Chen, S Liang, S Tao, W Yu, S Yuan, S Jian… - Science of the Total …, 2023 - Elsevier
Mature landfill leachate is a refractory organic wastewater, and needs physical and chemical
pretreatments contemporaneously, eg iron-carbon micro-electrolysis (IC-ME). In this study, a …

Variations in physical, chemical and biological properties in relation to sludge dewaterability under Fe (II)–Oxone conditioning

K Xiao, Y Chen, X Jiang, Q Yang, WY Seow, W Zhu… - Water research, 2017 - Elsevier
The mechanism of Fe (II)–oxone conditioning to improve sludge dewaterability was
investigated in this study. Five different types of sludge were tested, including raw sludge …

Highly effective enhancement of waste activated sludge dewaterability by altering proteins properties using methanol solution coupled with inorganic coagulants

Q Xu, Q Wang, W Zhang, P Yang, Y Du, D Wang - Water research, 2018 - Elsevier
Proteins are the dominant organic component of extracellular polymeric substances (EPS) in
waste activated sludge (WAS), and play an important role during sludge dewatering …

A comparison of oxidation and re-flocculation behaviors of Fe2+/PAA and Fe2+/H2O2 treatments for enhancing sludge dewatering: a mechanism study

X Ling, A Cai, M Chen, H Sun, S Xu, Z Huang… - Science of The Total …, 2022 - Elsevier
In this study, Fe 2+ activated-PAA was developed as a novel technology to enhance sludge
dewatering. The result showed that the filterability (CST 0/CST) enhanced by 4.20±0.14 …

Enhanced dewaterability of anaerobically digested sludge by in-situ free nitrous acid treatment

Y Li, D Wang, G Yang, X Yuan, Q Xu, Q Yang, Y Liu… - Water research, 2020 - Elsevier
As the protonated form of nitrite, free nitrous acid (FNA) is a renewable chemical that can be
produced on site from the anaerobic digestion liquor by nitritation, and has been widely …

Recyclable zero-valent iron activating peroxymonosulfate synchronously combined with thermal treatment enhances sludge dewaterability by altering …

Y Li, X Yuan, D Wang, H Wang, Z Wu, L Jiang… - Bioresource …, 2018 - Elsevier
In this study, zero valent iron (ZVI) activated peroxymonosulfate (PMS) as novel technique
(ie ZVI-PMS technology) was employed to enhance sludge dewatering. In optimal sludge …