Net-zero greenhouse gas emission from wastewater treatment: Mechanisms, opportunities and perspectives

Y He, Y Li, X Li, Y Liu, Y Wang, H Guo, J Hou… - … and Sustainable Energy …, 2023 - Elsevier
Net-zero emission and self-sustaining carbon-neutral have been widely encouraged and
intensively explored in wastewater treatment, as the wastewater industry accounts for …

[HTML][HTML] Technologies for biological removal and recovery of nitrogen from wastewater

S Rahimi, O Modin, I Mijakovic - Biotechnology Advances, 2020 - Elsevier
Water contamination is a growing environmental issue. Several harmful effects on human
health and the environment are attributed to nitrogen contamination of water sources …

Methanotrophs: discoveries, environmental relevance, and a perspective on current and future applications

S Guerrero-Cruz, A Vaksmaa, MA Horn… - Frontiers in …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Methane is the final product of the anaerobic decomposition of organic matter. The
conversion of organic matter to methane (methanogenesis) as a mechanism for energy …

Bacterial biofilm and extracellular polymeric substances in the moving bed biofilm reactor for wastewater treatment: A review

KU Mahto, S Das - Bioresource Technology, 2022 - Elsevier
Among the several biofilm-based bioreactors, moving bed biofilm reactors (MBBR) have
been extensively used for wastewater treatment due to low operational costs, technical …

Moving bed biofilm reactor technology in municipal wastewater treatment: a review

A di Biase, MS Kowalski, TR Devlin… - Journal of environmental …, 2019 - Elsevier
The review encompasses the development of municipal wastewater treatment process using
MBBR from early stages, established application, and recent advancements. An overview of …

Role of extracellular polymeric substance in determining the high aggregation ability of anammox sludge

X Hou, S Liu, Z Zhang - Water research, 2015 - Elsevier
The high aggregation ability of anammox sludge has been extensively observed, but the
cause for their aggregation is challenging. Here the structure and composition of …

Recent advances in partial denitrification in biological nitrogen removal: From enrichment to application

Z Zhang, Y Zhang, Y Chen - Bioresource Technology, 2020 - Elsevier
To maximize energy recovery, carbon capture followed by shortcut nitrogen removal is
becoming the most promising route in biological wastewater treatment. As the intermediate …

The cycle of nitrogen in river systems: sources, transformation, and flux

X Xia, S Zhang, S Li, L Zhang, G Wang… - … science: Processes & …, 2018 - pubs.rsc.org
Nitrogen is a requisite and highly demanded element for living organisms on Earth.
However, increasing human activities have greatly altered the global nitrogen cycle …

The anammox coupled partial-denitrification process in an integrated granular sludge and fixed-biofilm reactor developed for mainstream wastewater treatment …

JL Zhuang, X Sun, WQ Zhao, X Zhang, JJ Zhou, BJ Ni… - Water Research, 2022 - Elsevier
This study describes an integrated granular sludge and fixed-biofilm (iGB) reactor
innovatively designed to carry out the anammox/partial-denitrification (A/PD) process for …

Critical analysis of biomass retention strategies in mainstream and sidestream ANAMMOX-mediated nitrogen removal systems

K Kosgey, K Chandran, J Gokal… - Environmental …, 2020 - ACS Publications
ANAMMOX (anaerobic ammonium oxidation) represents an energy-efficient process for
biological nitrogen removal, particularly from wastewater streams with low chemical oxygen …