Critical review on dewatering of sewage sludge: Influential mechanism, conditioning technologies and implications to sludge re-utilizations

B Wu, X Dai, X Chai - Water research, 2020 - Elsevier
Abstracts Sewage sludge (mainly composed of excessive bio-sludge) is an inevitable by-
product of biological wastewater treatment process and contains various toxic substances …

Application of filtration aids for improving sludge dewatering properties–a review

Y Qi, KB Thapa, AFA Hoadley - Chemical Engineering Journal, 2011 - Elsevier
The difficulties in sludge dewatering are associated with the high organic content and
colloidal materials in sludge solids. Chemical conditioning by flocculation improves sludge …

Roles of iron species and pH optimization on sewage sludge conditioning with Fenton's reagent and lime

W Yu, J Yang, Y Shi, J Song, Y Shi, J Xiao, C Li, X Xu… - Water Research, 2016 - Elsevier
Conditioning sewage sludge with Fenton's reagent could effectively improve its
dewaterability. However, drawbacks of conditioning with Fenton's reagent are requirement …

A comprehensive insight into the combined effects of Fenton's reagent and skeleton builders on sludge deep dewatering performance

H Liu, J Yang, N Zhu, H Zhang, Y Li, S He… - Journal of hazardous …, 2013 - Elsevier
Conditioning sewage sludge with Fenton's reagent and skeleton builders has been proved
to be an effective mean to achieve deep dewatering. This work aimed to give a …

Sludge drying and dewatering processes influence the abundance and characteristics of microplastics in wastewater treatment plants

S Hajji, M Ben-Haddad, MR Abelouah, GE De-la-Torre… - Chemosphere, 2023 - Elsevier
Wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) have been identified as high-load receptors of
microplastics (MPs) from different sources. However, the influence of specific treatment …

[HTML][HTML] A review on the dewaterability of bio-sludge and ultrasound pretreatment

X Yin, P Han, X Lu, Y Wang - Ultrasonics Sonochemistry, 2004 - Elsevier
Bio-sludge, which contains large quantities of water, biomass and extracellular polymeric
substances (EPS), is difficult to be dewatered as a “super-compactable” sludge [Water Res …

Bioleaching conditioning increased the bioavailability of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons to promote their removal during co-composting of industrial and municipal …

Y Lu, G Zheng, W Zhou, J Wang, L Zhou - Science of the Total Environment, 2019 - Elsevier
Conditioning treatments are extensively employed in wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs)
to enhance sludge dewaterability, thereby improving the sludge dehydration during …

Importance of sludge conditioning in attenuating antibiotic resistance: removal of antibiotic resistance genes by bioleaching and chemical conditioning with Fe [III]/CaO

G Zheng, Y Lu, D Wang, L Zhou - Water research, 2019 - Elsevier
Conditioning can drastically improve the dewaterability of sewage sludge and thus it is
widely practiced in most wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs). In WWTPs, various antibiotic …

A rapid Fenton treatment technique for sewage sludge dewatering

R Mo, S Huang, W Dai, J Liang, S Sun - Chemical Engineering Journal, 2015 - Elsevier
The study aimed to develop a rapid and practical Fenton treatment technique for sludge
dewatering. The results indicated that the Fenton reaction time could be shortened to 5 min …

Influential mechanism of water occurrence states of waste-activated sludge: Over-focused significance of cell lysis to bound water reduction

B Wu, H Wang, Y He, X Dai, X Chai - Water Research, 2022 - Elsevier
The rigid cell membrane structure is widely thought to retain the intracellular water and
positively contributes to the presence of bound water in waste-activated sludge (WAS) …