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Advanced Technologies in Wastewater Treatment

A special issue of Water (ISSN 2073-4441). This special issue belongs to the section "Wastewater Treatment and Reuse".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (20 March 2021) | Viewed by 8626

Special Issue Editor

Dr. Manel Garrido-Baserba

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Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of California, Irvine, CA 92697, USA
Interests: failures and bottlenecks; biogas; intensification technologies; short-N; resilience; biofilm

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

This SPECIAL ISSUE will be dedicated to critical reviews and scientifically sound case studies of innovative advanced wastewater technologies. Our aim is to provide a full picture of the path from innovative ideas and concepts to full-scale application, focusing on lessons learned along the way. The consolidation of technological advancements requires the combined efforts of all experts involved to overcome all technical and financial hurdles, bottlenecks, and identify potential and real downsides that will dictate the technology’s best niche in a competitive market.  

Truly innovative solutions in the wastewater treatment field are a community effort, and openly sharing and learning from each other’s failures and successes is promoted in this issue. Covering the complete path from big ideas, meant to solve it all, to their evolution toward more specialized applications, should support a better understanding of the benefits and limitations of each technology.

This Special Issue will welcome critical reviews and scientifically sound case studies of failures and successes. Examples for potential contributions are technologies for process intensification, resource recovery, and approaches and strategies to enhance the resilience and process robustness.

Dr. Manel Garrido-Baserba
Guest Editor

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Keywords

  • failures and bottlenecks
  • biogas
  • intensification technologies
  • short-N
  • resilience
  • biofilm
  • resource recovery

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Nutrient Removal in Sequential Batch Polishing Ponds
by Silvânia Lucas dos Santos and Adrianus van Haandel
Water 2021, 13(11), 1584; https://0-doi-org.brum.beds.ac.uk/10.3390/w13111584 - 04 Jun 2021
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One of the main problems of waste stabilization ponds (WSP) is that they cannot remove nutrients when treating wastewater. Polishing ponds (PP) can efficiently remove nitrogen and phosphorus from effluents after efficient anaerobic pretreatment. It shown that the feasibility of nutrient removal is [...] Read more.
One of the main problems of waste stabilization ponds (WSP) is that they cannot remove nutrients when treating wastewater. Polishing ponds (PP) can efficiently remove nitrogen and phosphorus from effluents after efficient anaerobic pretreatment. It shown that the feasibility of nutrient removal is directly related to the pH that is established in the ponds. WSP normally operate at near neutral pH, but the biological processes that develop in PP tend to cause an elevation of pH and this, in turn, triggers the mechanisms of nutrient removal in ponds. In PP oxygen production by photosynthesis predominates over the oxidation of organic material. The net oxygen production has an equivalent CO2 consumption and this induces an increase in pH. The mechanism for nitrogen removal was identified as the desorption of ammonia from the liquid phase of the ponds. It was established that in ponds with a uniform concentration profile in the liquid phase the process developed in accordance with Fick’s law. The governing mechanism of phosphorus removal was precipitation with ions present in the wastewater, presumably calcium and magnesium. Polishing ponds can be operated with two different hydrodynamic regimes: flow-through (FTPP) and sequential batch (SBPP) ponds. The SBPP have the advantage that the pH elevation is more rapid, and that the final pH is higher. Full article
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Design, Scaling, and Development of Biofilters with E crassipes for Treatment of Water Contaminated with Cr (VI)
by Uriel Fernando Carreño Sayago
Water 2021, 13(9), 1317; https://0-doi-org.brum.beds.ac.uk/10.3390/w13091317 - 08 May 2021
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The heavy metal water treatment process is the subject of worldwide research. Chromium (VI) is a heavy metal that is very dangerous to humans due to it being able to alter genetic material and cause cancer. Cellulose is an interesting material for removing [...] Read more.
The heavy metal water treatment process is the subject of worldwide research. Chromium (VI) is a heavy metal that is very dangerous to humans due to it being able to alter genetic material and cause cancer. Cellulose is an interesting material for removing heavy metals, and excellent removals have been achieved in many experiments at the laboratory scale. However, scaling these processes to polluting industries is not easy. The objective of this research is to design, scale, and test a biofilter with biomass of E crassipes transformed with iron for treatment of water contaminated with Cr (VI). The biomasses of E crassipes (EC) and E crassipes with iron (EC + Fe) were evaluated at the batch laboratory scale to determine the adsorption capacities through Langmuir isotherms. With these capacities, a mass balance was formulated, obtaining the design equation to build a biofilter at the pilot scale and providing the required amount of biomass from (EC) and (EC + Fe) for the adequate treatment of the Cr (VI) present in the water. The mass, as suggested by the relevant equations, for the greatest concentration of Cr (VI) of 500 mg/L was 42 g together with a flow rate of 10 mL/min for the biomass of (EC + Fe); for the biomass of (EC), the suggested model for the treatment of the greatest Cr (VI) concentration of 500 mg/L was 64 g of biomass together with a flow rate of 10 mL/min. We conclude that the two pilot-scale treatment systems were consistent with the Cr (VI) removal process and that the equation for the design was adequate. Full article
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The Influence of Sulfate on Anaerobic Ammonium Oxidation in a Sequencing Batch Reactor
by Dominika Grubba and Joanna Majtacz
Water 2020, 12(11), 3004; https://0-doi-org.brum.beds.ac.uk/10.3390/w12113004 - 26 Oct 2020
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Anaerobic ammonia-oxidizing bacteria have a more comprehensive metabolism than expected - there may be other electron acceptors that oxidize ammonium nitrogen under anaerobic conditions, in addition to the well-known nitrite nitrogen, one of which is sulfate in the sulfammox process. Sulfate-containing compounds are [...] Read more.
Anaerobic ammonia-oxidizing bacteria have a more comprehensive metabolism than expected - there may be other electron acceptors that oxidize ammonium nitrogen under anaerobic conditions, in addition to the well-known nitrite nitrogen, one of which is sulfate in the sulfammox process. Sulfate-containing compounds are part of the medium for the anammox process, but their concentrations are not particularly high (0.2 g MgSO4 ∙ 7H2O/dm3 and 0.00625 g FeSO4/dm3). They can react to some extent with influent ammonium nitrogen. In this work, tests were carried out in two sequencing batch reactors with granular sludge. The first reactor (R1) operated in a 6 h cycle, and the concentration of the inflowing sulfate was kept at 44 mg/dm3∙d. The second reactor (R2) was operated until the 36th day in a 6 h cycle; the influencing concentration was 180 mg SO42−/dm3∙d from the 37th to 64th day in a 3 h cycle, with an influencing concentration of 360 mg SO42−/dm3∙d; and from the 65th to 90th day, the reactor was operated again in a 6 h cycle with an influencing concentration of 180 mg SO42−/dm3∙d. Along with the increased share of sulfate, both the ammonium utilization rate and specific anammox activity showed an increasing trend. As soon as the sulfate dosage was reduced, the ammonium utilization rate and specific anammox activity values dropped. Therefore, it can be concluded that sulfate-containing compounds contribute to the efficiency and rate of the anammox process. Full article
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