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Sludge Treatment

Sludge treatment through anaerobic digestion is a well established and widely approved process for disposal reduction whilst producing biogas, yet there is still a need for optimizing the process in terms of stability, inhibition problems and methane yields enhancements. Hence, upstream the process, several pre-treatment technologies can be adopted to anaerobic digestion plants to digest a variety of substrates and increase biogas production. On the other side, downstream the process, digested sludge management approaches is challenged by environmental and economic concerns, associated with digestate nitrogen and phosphorus concentrations and heavy metal content, in addition to transportation and storage costs. On these bases, this research areas focuses on sludge anaerobic digestion through applying pretreatments to enhance the process, and post-treatments to improve the whole sludge management process.

Research Team

  1. Sherien Elagroudy

Related Journal Publication List

  1. Ahmed, M., Andreottola, G., Elagroudy, S., Negm, M.S., Fiori, L., 2021a. Coupling hydrothermal carbonization and anaerobic digestion for sewage digestate management: Influence of hydrothermal treatment time on dewaterability and bio-methane production. Journal of Environmental Management 281. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvman.2020.111910
  2. Ahmed, M., Sartori, F., Merzari, F., Fiori, L., Elagroudy, S., Shaaban Negm, M., Andreottola, G., 2021b. Anaerobic Degradation of Digestate Based Hydrothermal Carbonization Products in a Continuous Hybrid Fixed Bed Anaerobic Filter. Bioresource Technology. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biortech.2021.124971
  3. Elagroudy, S., Radwan, A.G., Banadda, N., Mostafa, N.G., Owusu, P.A., Janajreh, I., 2020. Mathematical models comparison of biogas production from anaerobic digestion of microwave pretreated mixed sludge. Renewable Energy 155. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.renene.2020.03.166
  4. Janajreh, I., Alshehi, A., Elagroudy, S., 2020. Anaerobic co-digestion of petroleum hydrocarbon waste and wastewater treatment sludge. International Journal of Hydrogen Energy 45. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijhydene.2018.05.100

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