L. M. M. de Bruin

TL;DR: A full detailed design of a potential application based on Granular sludge Sequencing Batch Reactors showed that the GSBR technology was less sensitive to the land price and more sensitive to a rain weather flow, and became more attractive at lower permissible RWF/DWF ratios and higher land prices.

TL;DR: This study shows that biomass segregation in aerobic granular sludge systems offers an extra possibility to influence microbial competition in order to obtain a desired population.

TL;DR: Investigation of microbial community variations as observed from 16S DNA gene DGGE banding patterns from an aerobic granular sludge pilot plant as well as the from a full-scale activated sludge treatment plant in Epe, the Netherlands showed that the microbial diversity shift in ammonium-oxidizing bacteria clearly correlated with fluctuations in temperature.

TL;DR: Aerobic granular sludge technology can be regarded as the future standard for industrial and municipal wastewater treatment as discussed by the authors, and a growing number of institutes and universities focus their scientific research on this new technology.

TL;DR: The Dutch Nereda ® technology is based upon aerobic granular sludge and distinguishes itself from traditional activated sludge systems by a significant lower energy and chemical consumption, much less space requirements and lower costs.