Human enteric pathogens are a major global concern, as they responsible for thousands of preventable deaths every year. New in wastewater constantly emerging. For example, SARS-CoV-2 has been recently detected domestic sewage and primary sludge. Knowledge about the reduction viruses treatment their partitioning between treated liquid effluent versus sludge or biosolids is still very scarce, esp...

This work presents the results of the pyrolysis of algal biomass obtained from high-rate algae ponds treating sewage. The two high-rate algae ponds (HRAP) were built and operated at the São João Navegantes Wastewater Treatment Plant. The HRAP A was fed with raw sewage while the HRAP B was fed with effluent from an upflow anaerobic sludge blanket (UASB) reactor. The HRAP B provided higher produc...

The physico-chemical characteristics of methanogenic granules are one of the most important properties for the successful operation of upflow anaerobic sludge blanket, since they could directly affect the substrate and nutrient transportation into granules. In this study, the effect of low strength ultrasonication on the settling velocity, permeability, porosity, and fluid collection efficiency...

High concentration animal wastewater is often contaminated by tetracycline and an upflow anaerobic sludge bioreactor (UASB) with granular sludge is often used to treat the wastewater. The investigation of the adsorption process of tetracycline on anaerobic granular sludge during anaerobic digestion of animal wastewater will increase the understanding of antibiotics behavior in the UASB reactor....

In this study, we investigated the efficiency of dissolved methane (D-CH(4)) collection by degasification from the effluent of a bench-scale upflow anaerobic sludge blanket (UASB) reactor treating synthetic wastewater. A hollow-fiber degassing membrane module was used for degasification. This module was connected to the liquid outlet of the UASB reactor. After chemical oxygen demand (COD) remov...

A Gram-stain-positive, strictly anaerobic, mesophilic, amylolytic, rod-shaped bacterium, designated strain SW408(T), was isolated from a laboratory-scale H(2)-producing upflow anaerobic sludge blanket reactor. The strain grew at 24-45 degrees C (no growth at or below 22 degrees C or at or above 47 degrees C), with optimum growth at 37 degrees C. The pH range for growth was 4.0-9.0 (no growth at...

The current study presents a detailed evaluation and comparison between two integrated anaerobic–aerobic systems for biological wastewater treatment under equal conditions in all aspects (wastewater characteristics, climatic conditions, reactor sizing, even the measurement methods). examined are (i) hybrid upflow anaerobic sludge blanket (hybrid UASB) coupled with fixed-film activated (IFAS) (i...

The application of the expanded granular sludge bed (EGSB) reactor for the anaerobic treatment of low-strength soluble wastewaters using ethanol as a model substrate was investigated in laboratory-scale reactors at 30oC. Chemical oxygen demand (COD) removal efficiency was above 80% at organic loading rates up to12 g COD/L . d with influent concentrations as low as 100 to 200 mg COD/L. These res...