Clean Energy and Resource Recovery
Wastewater Treatment Plants as Biorefineries, Volume 2

A comprehensive how-to guide on the recovery of biofuel, heat, electricity and value-added products from wastewater treatment plants

Vinay Kumar Tyagi (Edited by), Manish Kumar (Edited by), Alicia K.J. An (Edited by), Zeynep Cetecioglu (Edited by)

9780323901789, Elsevier Science

Paperback / softback, published 15 November 2021

482 pages, Approx. 100 illustrations
23.5 x 19 x 3 cm, 1.27 kg

Clean Energy and Resource Recovery: Wastewater Treatment Plants as Bio-refineries, Volume 2, summarizes the fundamentals of various treatment modes applied to the recovery of energy and value-added products from wastewater treatment plants. The book addresses the production of biofuel, heat, and electricity, chemicals, feed, and other products from municipal wastewater, industrial wastewater, and sludge. It intends to provide the readers an account of up-to-date information on the recovery of biofuels and other value-added products using conventional and advanced technological developments. The book starts with identifying the key problems of the sectors and then provides solutions to them with step-by-step guidance on the implementation of processes and procedures. Titles compiled in this book further explore related issues like the safe disposal of leftovers, from a local to global scale. Finally, the book sheds light on how wastewater treatment facilities reduce stress on energy systems, decrease air and water pollution, build resiliency, and drive local economic activity.

As a compliment to Volume 1: Biomass Waste Based Biorefineries, Clean Energy and Resource Recovery, Volume 2: Wastewater Treatment Plants as Bio-refineries is a comprehensive reference on all aspects of energy and resource recovery from wastewater. The book is going to be a handy reference tool for energy researchers, environmental scientists, and civil, chemical, and municipal engineers interested in waste-to-energy.

1. Wastewater to R3 – resource recovery, recycling, and reuse efficiency in urban wastewater treatment plants 2. Energy and resources recovery from wastewater treatment systems 3. Water reclamation, recycle, and reuse 4. Advanced biological water reclamation and reuse technologies for recirculating aquaculture system 5. Hybrid forward/reverse osmosis (HFRO): An approach for optimized operation and sustainable resource recovery 7. Energy self-sufficiency in wastewater treatment plants: Perspectives, challenges, and opportunities 8. Cellulosic materials recovery from municipal wastewater: From treatment plants to the market 9. Assessing algae-based wastewater treatment—a life cycle assessment approach 10. Methanotrophic bacterial biorefineries: resource recovery and GHG mitigation through the production of bacterial biopolymers 11. Microbial electrochemical technologies for wastewater treatment: insight into theory and reality 12. Waste(water) to feed protein: effluent characteristics, protein recovery, and single-cell protein production from food industry waste streams 13. Acids (VFAs) and bioplastic (PHA) recovery 14. Algal treatment of wastewater for resources recovery 15. Polyhydroxyalkanoate production from food industry residual streams using mixed microbial cultures 16. Removal of nitrogen and phosphorus from wastewater through the moving bed biofilm reactor 17. Wastewater to biogas recovery 18. Wastewater to bioactive products: recovery of polysaccharides in activated sludge from sulfate-laden wastewater 19. Circular city concept for future biorefineries 20. Sludge treatment: an approach toward environmental remediation 21. Values added products recovery from sludge 22. Biogas recovery from sludge 23. Cellulose and extracellular polymer recovery from sludge 24. Cambi Thermal Hydrolysis Process (CambiTHP) for sewage sludge treatment 25. Reutilization of sludge as fertilizer 26. Valorizing sludge: a biorefinery perspective prospecting for sustainable development

Subject Areas: Alternative & renewable energy sources & technology [THX]