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Co-pyrolysis of sewage sludge and biomass for stabilizing heavy metals and reducing biochar toxicity: A review

open access: yesEnvironmental Chemistry Letters, 2022
The huge amounts of sewage sludge produced by municipal wastewater treatment plants induce major environmental and economical issues, calling for advanced disposal methods.
B. Mohamed   +9 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Synthesis of zeolite P from sewage sludge ash [PDF]

open access: yesE3S Web of Conferences, 2019
Sewage sludge is an example of waste considered as biomass. The utilization of sewage sludge is more often realized through combustion, which simultaneously constitutes the recovery of energy from a renewable source.
Latosińska Jolanta
doaj   +1 more source

Investigating the dispersal of macro- and microplastics on agricultural fields 30 years after sewage sludge application

open access: yesScientific Reports, 2022
Plastic contamination of terrestrial ecosystems and arable soils pose potentially negative impacts on several soil functions. Whereas substantial plastic contamination is now traceable in agro-landscapes, often internal-caused by the application of ...
C. Weber   +2 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Evaluation of the Use of Sewage Sludge Biochar as a Soil Amendment—A Review

open access: yesSustainability, 2022
In recent decades, minimization and recycling/reuse policies were introduced to reduce the quantities of generated waste and for alternative waste recovery. Organic wastes represent 46% of total global solid waste. Possible uses of organic wastes include
Elena Goldan   +6 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

ECOTOXICOLOGICAL ASSESSMENT OF THE SOILFERTILIZED WITH SEWAGE SLUDGE [PDF]

open access: yesPresent Environment and Sustainable Development, 2020
Sewage sludge and its management constitute one of the most important environmental problems. The introduced the Sewage Sludge Directive 86/278/EEC advocate utilization of sewage sludge in agriculture.
Justyna Kujawska   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

Thermochemical conversion of sewage sludge for energy and resource recovery: technical challenges and prospects

open access: yesEnvironmental Pollutants and Bioavailability, 2021
Thermochemical processes are considered as a promising technology for sewage sludge management, which could achieve volume reduction, energy and resource recovery, and effective destruction of pathogens.
Mian Hu   +5 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Long-read metagenomic sequencing reveals shifts in associations of antibiotic resistance genes with mobile genetic elements from sewage to activated sludge

open access: yesMicrobiome, 2022
Background There is concern that the microbially rich activated sludge environment of wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) may contribute to the dissemination of antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs).
D. Dai   +8 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

The effect of municipal sewage sludge on properties physicochemical and microbial agricultural soil

open access: yesNotulae Scientia Biologicae, 2021
The organic matter content of sludge can improve the physical, chemical and biological properties of the soil ensuring better cultivation and good agricultural productivity.
Naima DOUAER   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Review of Sewage Sludge as a Soil Amendment in Relation to Current International Guidelines: A Heavy Metal Perspective

open access: yes, 2021
Overexploitation of resources makes the reutilization of waste a focal topic of modern society, and the question of the kind of wastes that can be used is continuously raised. Sewage sludge (SS) is derived from the wastewater treatment plants, considered
N. Nunes   +3 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

From Sewage Sludge to the Soil—Transfer of Pharmaceuticals: A Review

open access: yesInternational Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 2022
Sewage sludge, produced in the process of wastewater treatment and managed for agriculture, poses the risk of disseminating all the pollutants contained in it.
Wioleta Bolesta   +2 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

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