Wastewater Treatment Residues as Resources for Biorefinery Products and Biofuels

Wastewater Treatment Residues as Resources for Biorefinery Products and Energy reviews wastewater treatment processes and the use of residues. The viability of end use processes for residues, such as incineration, cement additives, agricultural fertilizers, and methane production are reviewed and analyzed, as are new processes for the use of residues within a fuels production system, such as pyrolysis, hydrothermal liquefaction and syngas. Specialized chapters discuss fractionation of biomass, the production of compounds from volatile fatty acids that conceptually proceed from the anaerobic acidogenesis of residues, and a final analysis of the overall productivity and viability that can be expected from these production schemes.

Discusses processes for the production of high value-added products and energy development from sludge Provides value-added technologies for resource utilization in wastewater systemsOutlines sustainability assessments and comparisons of technologies and processes

I. Wastewater Treatment as a Process and a Resource 1. Waste as a resource 2. Wastewater treatment processes and characterization of wastewaters, sludge and treated waters

II. Current Approaches to Disposition and Utilization of Wastewater Treatment Residue 3. Reduction of waste mass by incineration 4. Additives for the cement and ceramics industries 5. Anaerobic digestion for methane and hydrogen production 6. TEA, LCA and EA of wastewater and sludge treatment systems

III. Technologies for Wastewater Sludge Utilization and Energy Production 7. Hydrothermal liquefaction of sludge and biomass residues 8. Carbonization of sludge 9. Pyrolysis of sludge and biomass residues 10. Fuel cells and other emerging technologies 11. TEA, LCA and EA of sludge thermochemical treatment systems

IV. New Technologies for Wastewater Treatment and Value-Added Product Development A - Holistic water treatment and biomass generation 12. Wastewater treatment and biomass generation with algae 13. Purple phototrophic bacteria as a novel driver to circular economy in wastewater treatment 14. Metals recovery from wastewater by microbial electrochemical technologies 15. Production of Biodiesel from Floatable Waste Water Scum

B - Value-added products from wastewater sludge and biomass 16. Technologies for fractionation of waste residues and resource recovery 17. Production of single-cell proteins from organic matter and residual nitrogen 18. Acidogenesis and chain elongation for bioproducts development 19. Transformation of organic contamination from wastewater into bioplastics (poly-hydroxy-alkanoate) by microorganisms 20. C - Life Cycle and Technoeconomic Analyses of new target industries for diversification of wastewater residues