Domestic wastewater treatment as a net energy producer--can this be achieved?

By P. McCarty, J. Bae, Jeonghwan Kim. Environmental Science and Technology, 2011

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Subfields: Biomedical Engineering, Environmental Engineering, Water Science and Technology

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Citations in the corpus

• Dual role of Chlorella sorokiniana and Scenedesmus obliquus for comprehensive wastewater treatment and biomass production for bio-fuels (2016, background): “These processes cumulatively are very energy and cost intensive (McCarty et al., 2011), and hence have limited overall applicability in economically weaker societies.”
• A Review of Modeling Bioelectrochemical Systems: Engineering and Statistical Aspects (2016, background): “The increasing energy demand and desire for environmental sustainability motivates the technology development for energy recovery from wastes over the past decades [5–7].”
• Mathematical modelling of anaerobic digestion processes: applications and future needs (2015, background): “The process is obviously of interest in wastewater treatment due to the ability to use methane to denitrify, and nitrate/nitrite to remove methane from mainline anaerobic treatment (McCarty et al. 2011).”
• Integrating micro-algae into wastewater treatment: A review. (2021, background): “Of the energy consumed, it is estimated that 50% or more is expended on the O2 transfer equipment in the biological secondary stage of the wastewater treatment train (Chae and Kang, 2013; Plappally and Lienhard, 2012; McCarty et al., 2011; Pabi et al., 2013).”
• MiDAS: the field guide to the microbes of activated sludge (2015, background): “for production of bioenergy or nutrient recovery (2).”
• Energy and water autarky of wastewater treatment and power generation systems (2015, background): “[6] reported that energy content levels as shown in Fig.”