Breweries generate a high amount of brewer’s spent grains (BSG), which is valuable feedstock for industrial applications. In the current study, techno-economic assessment flow-through subcritical water hydrolysis reactor to produce sugars from BSG was performed. Simulations were done sequential process in three-extractor vessels 10 L (pilot-plant) and 500 (industrial-plant), coupled or not sepa...

Infiltration percolation is used as a tertiary treatment in order to meet the WHO’s microbiological standards applying to unrestricted agricultural wastewater reuse. Faecal coliform removal, ∆fc, was investigated in laboratory columns and on a 565 m pilot plant. ∆fc observed in laboratory columns was shown to be closely related to water detention time distribution, DTD. The relationship between...

A novel Sulfate reduction Autotrophic denitrification and Nitrification Integrated (SANI) process has been recently developed by the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology in partnership of Delft University of Technology. This novel process can remove COD through sulfate reduction and nitrate through autotrophic denitrification using produced sulfide. After a 500-day lab-scale trial, we...

A pilot plant for continuous flow microwave-assisted chemical reaction combined with microreactors was developed and water heating tests were conducted for evaluation of the developed plant. We developed a microwave apparatus having a single microwave generator that can heat reaction solutions in four reaction fields simultaneously in order to increase throughput. We also designed a four-branch...

Predictive models play an important role in the design of post-combustion processes for the capture of carbon dioxide (CO2) emitted from power plants. A rate-based absorber model is presented to investigate the reactive capture of CO2 using aqueous monoethanolamine (MEA) as a solvent, integrating a predictive molecular-based equation of state: SAFT-VR SW (Statistical Associating Fluid Theory-Va...