Recent progress in persulfate to improve waste activated sludge treatment: Principles, challenges and perspectives

J Xiao, D He, Y Ye, B Yang, A Duan, D Wang - Chemical Engineering …, 2023 - Elsevier
Persulfate is considered as a promising oxidant, thus the improvement of waste activated
sludge (WAS) treatment with persulfate was widely regarded as a promising technology and …

Strategies for controlling filamentous bulking in activated sludge wastewater treatment plants: The old and the new

T Sam, M Le Roes-Hill, N Hoosain, PJ Welz - Water, 2022 - mdpi.com
Filamentous bulking and foaming are the most common settling problems experienced in
activated sludge (AS) wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs). The quality of the final effluent …

Evaluation of activated sludge settling characteristics from microscopy images with deep convolutional neural networks and transfer learning

S Borzooei, L Scabini, G Miranda, S Daneshgar… - Journal of Water …, 2024 - Elsevier
Timely assessment and prediction of changes in microbial compositions leading to activated
sludge settling problems, such as filamentous bulking (FB), can reduce water resource …

Analyzing the secondary wastewater-treatment process using Faster R-CNN and YOLOv5 object detection algorithms

O Inbar, M Shahar, J Gidron, I Cohen… - Journal of Cleaner …, 2023 - Elsevier
The activated sludge (AS) process is the most common type of secondary wastewater
treatment, applied worldwide. Due to the complexity of microbial communities, imbalances …

Coupling ammonia nitrogen adsorption and regeneration unit with a high-load anoxic/aerobic process to achieve rapid and efficient pollutants removal for wastewater …

J Qiang, Z Zhou, K Wang, Z Qiu, H Zhi, Y Yuan… - Water research, 2020 - Elsevier
In this study, an ammonium nitrogen (NH 4+-N) adsorption and regeneration (AAR) was
constructed by a zeolite-packed column and NaClO–NaCl regeneration unit, and coupled …

Hitchhiking behavior in bacteriophages facilitates phage infection and enhances carrier bacteria colonization

Z Yu, C Schwarz, L Zhu, L Chen… - … Science & Technology, 2020 - ACS Publications
Interactions between bacteriophages (phages) and biofilms remain poorly understood
despite the broad implications for microbial ecology, water quality, and microbiome …

Opportunities in optical and electrical single-cell technologies to study microbial ecosystems

F Mermans, V Mattelin, R Van den Eeckhoudt… - Frontiers in …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
New techniques are revolutionizing single-cell research, allowing us to study microbes at
unprecedented scales and in unparalleled depth. This review highlights the state-of-the-art …

Tracing morphological characteristics of activated sludge flocs by using a digital microscope and their effects on sludge dewatering and settling

Y Nakaya, J Jia, H Satoh - Environmental technology, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
In wastewater treatment by the activated sludge (AS) process, settleability and dewaterability
of AS are key issues that are directly related to the treated water quality and sludge …

Stratification patterns of anammox granular sludge bed: Linking particle size distribution to microbial activity and community

D Kang, P Zheng, W Li, D Xu, W Chen, C Pan - Environmental Research, 2022 - Elsevier
Anammox granular sludge processes are an attractive and efficient biotechnology in the
field of wastewater treatment. In this study, the stratification patterns of anammox granular …

Deep learning-based morphology classification of activated sludge flocs in wastewater treatment plants

H Satoh, Y Kashimoto, N Takahashi… - … : Water Research & …, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Microscopy inspection of the morphology of activated sludge (AS) flocs can provide
important information regarding the AS properties, which strongly affect the performance of …