Mechanisms, status, and challenges of thermal hydrolysis and advanced thermal hydrolysis processes in sewage sludge treatment

PL Ngo, IA Udugama, KV Gernaey, BR Young… - Chemosphere, 2021 - Elsevier
Sewage sludge management has garnered interest in both academia and industry due to
the challenges of overpopulation and its potential as a bioenergy source. Thermal hydrolysis …

Underestimated humic acids release and influence on anaerobic digestion during sludge thermal hydrolysis

F Huang, H Liu, J Wen, C Zhao, L Dong, H Liu - Water Research, 2021 - Elsevier
Humic-like acids (HAs) are abundant in sewage sludge but mainly bonded with solids. Thus,
their influences are often neglected in conventional digestion processes. Currently thermal …

Iron-rich digestate biochar toward sustainable peroxymonosulfate activation for efficient anaerobic digestate dewaterability

Z Mo, Z Tan, J Liang, L Zhang, C Li, S Huang… - Journal of Hazardous …, 2023 - Elsevier
In this study, a suite of Fe-rich biochars derived from Fenton-like treated digestate (Fe-BC)
were fabricated under different pyrolysis temperatures (300, 500, and 800° C), which were …

Advances in chemical conditioning of residual activated sludge in China

Y Liang, R Wang, W Sun, Y Sun - Water, 2023 - mdpi.com
Municipal sludge is characterized by high organic matter content, high viscosity, and fine
particles, resulting in poor dewatering performance. This article analyzes the composition …

Influence of thermal hydrolysis on sludge anaerobic digestion: Release of humic acid promotes electron transport of methanogen

C Zhao, H Liu, H Liu, X Zhan, X Zhang, B Fu… - Chemical Engineering …, 2023 - Elsevier
Thermal hydrolysis pretreatment (THP) has been widely applied to promote anaerobic
digestion (AD). Humic acids (HAs) are a group of insoluble organics and often present in the …

Rethinking the relationships between gel like structure and sludge dewaterability based on a binary gel like structure model: Implications for the online sensing of …

D Zhang, Y Wang, J Wang, X Fan, S Zhang, M Liu… - Water Research, 2024 - Elsevier
The digital transformation of sludge treatment processes requires online sensing of
dewaterability. This topic has been attempted for many years based on macroscopic shear …

Unexpected morphological modifications in high moisture extruded pea-flaxseed proteins: Part I, topological and conformational characteristics, textural attributes, and …

F Riazi, MM Tehrani, V Lammers, V Heinz… - Food …, 2023 - Elsevier
The present study aims at gaining a better understanding on the structuring mechanisms
and textural attributes of pea protein isolate influenced by the addition of flaxseed protein …

[HTML][HTML] Viscous and filamentous bulking in activated sludge: Rheological and hydrodynamic modelling based on experimental data

V Bakos, B Gyarmati, P Csizmadia, S Till, L Vachoud… - Water Research, 2022 - Elsevier
Although achieving good activated sludge settleability is a key requirement for meeting
effluent quality criteria, wastewater treatment plants often face undesired floc structure …

Accelerated stabilization of high solid sludge by thermal hydrolysis pretreatment in autothermal thermophilic aerobic digestion (ATAD) process

Y Liu, H Yuan, N Zhu - Journal of Environmental Management, 2022 - Elsevier
Autothermal thermophilic aerobic digestion (ATAD) is a rapid biological treatment
technology for sludge stabilization. To improve digestion efficiency and shorten stabilization …

Vane geometry for measurement of influent rheological behaviour in dry anaerobic digestion

EYM Beugre, T Gnagne - Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 2022 - Elsevier
The knowledge of the rheology of influents involved in dry anaerobic digestion is an
essential factor for process optimization. Despite this fact, it is difficult to characterize the …