An integrative review of granular sludge for the biological removal of nutrients and recalcitrant organic matter from wastewater

MKH Winkler, C Meunier, O Henriet, J Mahillon… - Chemical Engineering …, 2018 - Elsevier
Granular sludge aggregates are particular types of biofilms that display significantly different
metrics and physical-chemical characteristics than activated sludge flocs. The efficiency of …

Insights into the potential application of magnetic field in controlling sludge bulking and foaming: A review

NS Zaidi, A Syafiuddin, M Sillanpää, MB Bahrodin… - Bioresource …, 2022 - Elsevier
The formation of bulking and foaming in biological wastewater treatment could cause a
series of operational issues with biomass and effluent quality, ultimately affect the treatment …

Characteristics of algal-bacterial aerobic granular sludge treating real wastewater: Effects of algal inoculation and alginate-like exopolymers recovery

SA Zahra, LDA Purba, N Abdullah, A Yuzir, K Iwamoto… - Chemosphere, 2023 - Elsevier
Limited information is available on the characteristics of algal-bacterial aerobic granular
sludge (AGS) treating real wastewater, especially on its alginate-like exopolymers (ALE) …

[HTML][HTML] Does the feeding strategy enhance the aerobic granular sludge stability treating saline effluents?

P Carrera, R Campo, R Méndez, G Di Bella… - Chemosphere, 2019 - Elsevier
The development and stability of aerobic granular sludge (AGS) was studied in two
Sequencing Batch Reactors (SBRs) treating fish canning wastewater. R1 cycle comprised a …

Filamentous bulking caused by Thiothrix species is efficiently controlled in full-scale wastewater treatment plants by implementing a sludge densification strategy

O Henriet, C Meunier, P Henry, J Mahillon - Scientific reports, 2017 - nature.com
Filamentous bulking caused by Thiothrix species is responsible for sludge washout and loss
of performance in dairy wastewater treatment plants. A long-term study was conducted over …

Simultaneous evaluation of bioactivity and settleability of activated sludge using fractal dimension as an intermediate variable

ZH Li, Y Guo, ZY Hang, TY Zhang, HQ Yu - Water Research, 2020 - Elsevier
Bioactivity and settleability of activated sludge are essential for the operation of activated
sludge systems in wastewater treatment. In this work, the fractal dimension of sludge image …

Adding an anaerobic step can rapidly inhibit sludge bulking in SBR reactor

J Yao, J Liu, Y Zhang, S Xu, Y Hong, Y Chen - Scientific Reports, 2019 - nature.com
Activated sludge from wastewater treatment plants was seeded into a sequencing batch
reactor (SBR) in which synthetic wastewater was used as the influent. The sludge was …

Features of aerobic granular sludge formation treating fluctuating industrial saline wastewater at pilot scale

P Carrera, T Casero-Díaz, CM Castro-Barros… - Journal of …, 2021 - Elsevier
A pilot-scale sequencing batch reactor, with a working volume of 3 m 3, was installed in a
fish cannery to develop aerobic granular sludge treating the produced effluents. Depending …

Granulation strategies applied to industrial wastewater treatment: from lab to full-scale

M Caluwé, K Goossens, K Seguel Suazo… - Water Science and …, 2022 - iwaponline.com
About one third of the industrial activated sludge (AS) plants worldwide suffer from bad
settling sludge, often caused by filamentous bulking phenomena. The present study …

Impact of the filamentous fungi overgrowth on the aerobic granular sludge process

A Sharaf, B Guo, Y Liu - Bioresource Technology Reports, 2019 - Elsevier
The aerobic granular sludge wastewater treatment technology has numerous advantages as
compared to the conventional flocculent sludge technologies. However, the filamentous …