Renewable energy will play a key role in the future in limitation of greenhouse gas emissions, with particular focus on carbon dioxide. Biomass and waste are considered among the dominant renewable energy sources. Due to their availability on the energy resources market, it has potential to ensure permanent energy generation.1–3 According to the International Energy Agency (IEA), fossil fuels a...

Sewage sludge was used as fertilizer in agriculture in Switzerland since the begin ning of modern waste water treatment. During the last 40 years several difficulties arose with the agricultural use. The problems with pathogenic germs could be solved with a prepasteurisation. The contamination with heavy metals was reduced during the years but remained a cause for concern. The fear of mad cow d...

Raw bagasse, Bagasse fly ash and distillery sludge, the waste generated in sugar mills and distillery have been used as lowcost potential biosorbent for the removal of hexavalent chromium from an aqueous solution. The effect of hydrogen ion concentration, contact time, adsorbent dose, initial concentrations of adsorbate and adsorbent dose on the uptake of chromium were studied in batch experime...

This work experimentally elucidates the effects of ultrasonic treatment on the physical, chemical, and biological characteristics of a waste-activated sludge. A critical ultrasonic power level exists above which, accompanied with the release of divalent cations from the sludge body, the floc structure effectively disintegrated, microbial level acceptably disinfected, and particulate organic com...

Problems relating to disposal of sludge accumulating at waste-water treatment plants (WWTP) in Croatia are described in the paper. The possibility and adequacy of using ash obtained through incineration of sludge is considered. A special emphasis is placed on the significance of ash in concrete industry during production of cement mortar and concrete. Results of worldwide research conducted so ...

Glassy materials simulating vitrified high-Na/Fe (Sludge Batch 2 – SB2) and high-Na/Fe/Al (Sludge Batch 4 – SB4) Savannah River Site high level wastes (HLW) were produced in a resistive furnace and 236 and 418 mm inner diameter cold crucibles. The effect of waste loading (WL) and glass structural factors (degree of connectedness of glass network, metal oxides to boron oxide ratios) on chemical ...

KVWPCA operates a waste water treatment plant in Leechburg, Pennsylvania, about 40 kilometers (25 miles) northeast of Pittsburgh on the flood plain of the Kiskiminetas River. From 1976 to 1993, KVWPCA treated sewage sludge by incineration. KVWPCA disposed of the resulting sewage sludge ash by mixing it with water to form a liquid slurry and pumping this material into an onsite lagoon. Discharge...

sanitary landfills, created for the disposal of solid waste, usually are developed into parks afterthey are closed. however, soil amelioration with organic matter is usually needed to restore fertility andpromote revegetation. sewage sludge creates a massive waste disposal problem. the use of composted sewage sludge (biosolid) as a soil conditioner might restore the soil fertility at landfill s...

BACKGROUND The aim of this study was to determine the potential of produced compost from the sludge of wastewater treatment plant using earthworms and compare it with the vermicompost produced from household solid waste. METHODS In the current study, three treatments with the same conditions in terms of organic wastes type were prepared to produce vermicompost from household solid waste and s...

Wazirpur industrial area of Delhi generates a huge quantity of sludge per day, which is highly acidic in nature (pH 2.7 to 4.4) and contains macronutrients, micronutrients as well as toxic metals. A pot-culture experiment was conducted by taking the two soils (JNU and Chhattarpur) amended with sludge (0%, 10%, 20%, 30%), pretreated with lime (0%, 0.5% and 1%). Two wheat seedlings were planted p...