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Principles and potential of the anaerobic digestion of waste-activated sludge

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In this article, the authors extensively review the principles of anaerobic digestion, the process parameters and their interaction, the design methods, the biogas utilisation, the possible problems and potential pro-active cures, and the recent developments to reduce the impact of the problems.
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This article is published in Progress in Energy and Combustion Science.The article was published on 2008-12-01. It has received 2616 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Anaerobic digestion & Biogas.

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Pretreatment methods to improve sludge anaerobic degradability: a review.

TL;DR: This paper presents a review of the main sludge treatment techniques used as a pretreatment to anaerobic digestion, and it is likely that low impact pretreatment methods such as mechanical and thermal phased improve speed of degradation, while high impact methods improve both speed and extent of degradation.
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Anaerobic digestion in global bio-energy production: Potential and research challenges

TL;DR: In this paper, the main beneficial properties of anaerobic digestion are discussed and the potential, opportunities and challenges of these biomasses are discussed, and the typical biogas yield and points of attention are included.
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A review of the hydrothermal carbonization of biomass waste for hydrochar formation: process conditions, fundamentals, and physicochemical properties.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors presented the critical hydrothermal parameters of hydrothermal carbonization, including temperature, residence time, heating rate, reactant concentration, and aqueous quality.
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Pretreatment methods to enhance anaerobic digestion of organic solid waste

TL;DR: In this paper, a review of pretreatment techniques to enhance the anaerobic digestion of organic solid waste, including mechanical, thermal, chemical and biological methods, is presented, in terms of their efficiency, energy balance, environmental sustainability as well as capital, operational and maintenance costs.
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Methanosarcina: the rediscovered methanogen for heavy duty biomethanation.

TL;DR: The possibilities of Methanosarcina sp.
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Wastewater engineering : treatment and reuse

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TL;DR: In this article, the authors present an overview of wastewater engineering and its application in the field of wastewater treatment, including conversion factors, physical properties of selected gases and the composition of air, and water properties.
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Inhibition of anaerobic digestion process: A review

TL;DR: This review provides a detailed summary of the research conducted on the inhibition of anaerobic processes and indicates that co-digestion with other waste, adaptation of microorganisms to inhibitory substances, and incorporation of methods to remove or counteract toxicants before an aerobic digestion can significantly improve the waste treatment efficiency.
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A review of classic Fenton's peroxidation as an advanced oxidation technique.

TL;DR: This paper presents a literature review of the various Fenton reagent reactions which constitute the overall kinetic scheme with all possible side reactions and discusses the possibility of improving sludge dewaterability using Fenton's reagent.

Activated sludge models ASM1, ASM2, ASM2d and ASM3 (in Japaneese)

TL;DR: A complete overview of the Activated Sludge Model (ASM) family can be found in this article, where the authors present ASM1, ASM2 and ASM3 together for the first time.
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The IWA Anaerobic Digestion Model No 1 (ADM1)

TL;DR: The structured model includes multiple steps describing biochemical as well as physicochemical processes and the physico-chemical equations describe ion association and dissociation, and gas-liquid transfer.
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