Environmental protection and the sustainable management of natural resources stand at the
foreground of economic and technological activities worldwide. Current sewage …

The increasing scarcity of clean water sets the need for appropriate management of
available water resources. Particularly regions suffering from a lack of water urgently need …

Decentralised sewage treatment is more and more considered to be a sustainable way of
waste (water) treatment. Three different options for the on-site treatment of sewage in …

Anaerobic digesters have been responsible for the removal of large fraction of organic
matter (mineralization of waste sludge) in conventional aerobic sewage treatment plants …

Sewerage system and centralised aerobic wastewater treatment plants (WTP) should not be
considered as the only possible solution for sanitation. Systems with source control can …

Environmental regulations in the European Union, based on the concept of integrated
prevention and control of pollution, are oriented towards the sustainability of the production …

Anaerobic digestion of wastewater should be a core technology employed in decentralised
sanitation systems especially when their objective is also resource conservation and reuse …

Urban water systems and, in particular, wastewater treatment facilities are among the major
energy consumers at municipal level worldwide. Estimates indicate that on average these …

The successful strategy for water protection by biological wastewater treatment results in a
sludge production of about 20 to 40 kg dry matter per population equivalent and year. In the …

The development of innovative technologies in wastewater treatment create the concept of
biorefinery in wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs), placing anaerobic processes in the …