Coagulation/flocculation in dewatering of sludge: a review

H Wei, B Gao, J Ren, A Li, H Yang - Water research, 2018 - Elsevier
Sludge disposal is an integral part of wastewater treatment systems, and its cost usually
accounts for more than half of the total operation cost. Sludge disposal technology is facing …

Natural flocculants for the treatment of wastewaters containing dyes or heavy metals: A state-of-the-art review

J El-Gaayda, FE Titchou, R Oukhrib, PS Yap… - Journal of …, 2021 - Elsevier
Flocculation is a water and wastewater treatment technology whereby the large aggregation
of flocs in water can be formed and be later separated through sedimentation. This review …

A review on chitosan-based flocculants and their applications in water treatment

R Yang, H Li, M Huang, H Yang, A Li - Water research, 2016 - Elsevier
In recent years, the use of chitosan and its derivatives as flocculants in water treatment has
received considerable attention due to their many advantages, including their widespread …

Semi-continuous anaerobic digestion of secondary sludge with free ammonia pretreatment: Focusing on volatile solids destruction, dewaterability, pathogen removal …

H Liu, X Li, Z Zhang, LD Nghiem, L Gao, Q Wang - Water research, 2021 - Elsevier
Our previous work has reported the pretreatment of secondary sludge with free ammonia
(NH 3, FA) enhanced the methane production in batch biochemical methane potential tests …

Recent advances in polysaccharide bio-based flocculants

H Salehizadeh, N Yan, R Farnood - Biotechnology advances, 2018 - Elsevier
Natural polysaccharides, derived from biomass feedstocks, marine resources, and
microorganisms, have been attracting considerable attention as benign and environmentally …

Recent progress in chemical modification of starch and its applications

Q Chen, H Yu, L Wang, Z ul Abdin, Y Chen, J Wang… - Rsc Advances, 2015 - pubs.rsc.org
Starch has received much attention as a promising natural material both in biomedical fields
and waste water treatment due to its unique biological and adsorptive properties. Recently …

Sustainable removal of contaminants by biopolymers: a novel approach for wastewater treatment. Current state and future perspectives

T Russo, P Fucile, R Giacometti, F Sannino - Processes, 2021 - mdpi.com
Naturally occurring substances or polymeric biomolecules synthesized by living organisms
during their entire life cycle are commonly defined as biopolymers. Different classifications of …

A Fenton-like process for the enhanced activated sludge dewatering

DQ He, LF Wang, H Jiang, HQ Yu - Chemical Engineering Journal, 2015 - Elsevier
The presence of high moisture content in sewage sludge aggravates the disposal costs and
restricts its application. Sewage sludge is traditionally conditioned by dosing …

Inertio-elastic focusing of bioparticles in microchannels at high throughput

EJ Lim, TJ Ober, JF Edd, SP Desai, D Neal… - Nature …, 2014 - nature.com
Controlled manipulation of particles from very large volumes of fluid at high throughput is
critical for many biomedical, environmental and industrial applications. One promising …

Progress of improving waste activated sludge dewaterability: Influence factors, conditioning technologies and implications and perspectives

H Yuan, N Zhu - Science of the Total Environment, 2023 - Elsevier
Large amounts of waste activated sludge (WAS) as a by-product generated from the
biological treatment in wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) is of high moisture content …