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Low Carbon Water Treatment and Energy Recovery, Volume II

A special issue of Applied Sciences (ISSN 2076-3417). This special issue belongs to the section "Environmental Sciences".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 September 2023) | Viewed by 1305

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School of Ecology and Environment, Hainan University, Haikou, China
Interests: bio-H2 production; anaerobic digestion; lignocellulosic biomass pretreatment; bioenergy recovery; microbial ecology
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College of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou 730000, China
Interests: municipal wastewater treatment and reuse; industrial wastewater treatment; micropollution drinking water treatment
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Dear Colleagues,

Climate change led by excess carbon dioxide emissions is a global challenge. For the water industry, the water treatment process is responsible for the amounts of different carbon emissions. The water industry makes global warming worse, so innovative wastewater treatment that exhausts less or no carbon dioxide is significant. Recently, carbon neutrality has become a hot topic for water treatment all over the world.

To reduce carbon emissions from water treatment, technological and scientific advances will be required, such as biomass production to reduce CO2 emissions, use of bubble-less gas mass transfer bioreactors, reduced aeration with greater microbial processes, high-efficiency pumps and blowers, low-pressure self-cleaning free membranes, and the use of solar power systems and bioelectrical systems in wastewater treatment. Our present technology for water and wastewater treatment offers enormous scope for improvement.

Based on this background, this Special Issue aims to assemble the latest advancements in innovative technologies for low carbon water treatment and energy recovery. Both full-length research papers and review articles are welcome.

Dr. Xin Zhao
Dr. Lili Dong
Dr. Zhaoyang Wang
Guest Editors

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Keywords

  • low carbon
  • carbon neutrality
  • water treatment
  • wastewater treatment
  • energy recovery
  • anaerobic digestion
  • bioelectrical system
  • biogas
  • water reuse
  • micropollution

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The Use of Solidified Carbon Dioxide in the Aerobic Granular Sludge Pre-Treatment before Thermophilic Anaerobic Digestion
by Joanna Kazimierowicz, Marcin Dębowski, Marcin Zieliński, Izabela Bartkowska, Adam Wasilewski, Dawid Łapiński and Piotr Ofman
Appl. Sci. 2023, 13(13), 7864; https://doi.org/10.3390/app13137864 - 4 Jul 2023
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The most common technology for the recovery of energy and valuable materials from sewage sludge is anaerobic digestion (AD). Ensuring thermophilic conditions during AD has been proven to cause process intensification and an improvement in its final outcomes. Nonetheless, the search is underway [...] Read more.
The most common technology for the recovery of energy and valuable materials from sewage sludge is anaerobic digestion (AD). Ensuring thermophilic conditions during AD has been proven to cause process intensification and an improvement in its final outcomes. Nonetheless, the search is underway for other methods to bolster the effectiveness of the AD of aerobic granular sludge (AGS), which is characterized by a compact and complex structure. A prospective AGS pre-treatment technology entails the use of solidified carbon dioxide (SCO2). The present study focused on an evaluation of the AGS pre-treatment with SCO2 on the thermophilic AD technological effects. It evaluated the effect of the SCO2 pre-treatment method on changes in the concentrations of organic and biogenic compounds in the dissolved phase and the yield and kinetics of biogas and methane production in periodical reactors, as well as enabled the development of an empirical organizational model of biogas production. SCO2 introduced to AGS caused an increase in the content of COD, N-NH4+, and P-PO43− in the AGS dissolved phase at SCO2/AGS volumetric ratios ranging from 0 to 0.3. A further increase in the SCO2 dose did not cause any statistically significant differences in this respect. The highest biogas and methane yields were obtained at SCO2/AGS of 0.3 and reached 482 ± 21 cm3/gVS and 337 ± 14 cm3/gVS, respectively. The higher SCO2 doses used led to a significant decrease in the pH value of the AGS, which, in turn, contributed to a decreasing CH4 concentration in the biogas. Full article
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