Control technologies of wastewater treatment plants: the state-of-the-art, current challenges, and future directions

M Faisal, KM Muttaqi, D Sutanto, AQ Al-Shetwi… - … and Sustainable Energy …, 2023 - Elsevier
Existing pieces of literature on previous studies advocate the research focus by various
researchers to reach the benchmark of energy efficiency of Wastewater Treatment Plants …

Achieving energy neutrality in wastewater treatment plants through energy savings and enhancing renewable energy production

M Maktabifard, E Zaborowska, J Makinia - Reviews in Environmental …, 2018 - Springer
Wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) consume high amounts of energy which is mostly
purchased from the grid. During the past years, many ongoing measures have taken place …

Automatic control and optimal operation for greenhouse gas mitigation in sustainable wastewater treatment plants: A review

H Lu, H Wang, Q Wu, H Luo, Q Zhao, B Liu, Q Si… - Science of the Total …, 2023 - Elsevier
In order to promote low-carbon sustainable operational management of the wastewater
treatment plants (WWTPs), automatic control and optimal operation technologies, which …

Energy self-sufficient wastewater treatment plants: feasibilities and challenges

Y Gu, Y Li, X Li, P Luo, H Wang, X Wang, J Wu, F Li - Energy Procedia, 2017 - Elsevier
Optimization of energy efficiency is important for wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs).
Increasing energy costs and concerns about global climate change highlight the need to …

Energy neutrality potential of wastewater treatment plants: A novel evaluation framework integrating energy efficiency and recovery

R Huang, J Xu, L Xie, H Wang, X Ni - Frontiers of Environmental Science …, 2022 - Springer
Wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) consume large amounts of energy and emit
greenhouse gases to remove pollutants. This study proposes a framework for evaluating the …

The feasibility and challenges of energy self-sufficient wastewater treatment plants

Y Gu, Y Li, X Li, P Luo, H Wang, ZP Robinson, X Wang… - Applied Energy, 2017 - Elsevier
Energy efficiency optimization is crucial for wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) because
of increasing energy costs and concerns about global climate change. Energy efficiency …

Energy performance factors in wastewater treatment plants: A review

BJ Cardoso, E Rodrigues, AR Gaspar… - Journal of Cleaner …, 2021 - Elsevier
Given their increasing number and the implementation of more energy-intensive treatment
methods, wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) expect to increase energy consumption. In …

Integration of green energy and advanced energy-efficient technologies for municipal wastewater treatment plants

Z Guo, Y Sun, SY Pan, PC Chiang - International journal of environmental …, 2019 - mdpi.com
Wastewater treatment can consume a large amount of energy to meet discharge standards.
However, wastewater also contains resources which could be recovered for secondary uses …

Near future energy self-sufficient wastewater treatment schemes

G Sarpong, VG Gude - International Journal of Environmental Research, 2020 - Springer
Achieving energy self-sufficiency is critical for wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) to
comply with rapidly changing environmental regulatory standards in a sustainable manner …

Exploring the feasibility of energy self-sufficient wastewater treatment plants: a case study in eastern China

J Xu, Y Li, H Wang, J Wu, X Wang, F Li - Energy Procedia, 2017 - Elsevier
Wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) are typical case of water-energy interactions. As the
number of WWTPs increases and the effluent quality requirements become more …