Sludge treatment in reed bed systems represents a sustainable and cost-effective alternative to conventional sludge management practices. These systems leverage natural hydrological and biological ...

A new way of tracking how sewage sludge flows during thermal treatment could help engineers design better wastewater treatment plants and boost production of biogas. Researchers at RMIT University in ...

A long-standing environmental liability may soon become a strategic industrial asset. Researchers in Denmark ...

Chemical and heat treatment of sewage sludge can recover phosphorus in a process that could help address the problem of diminishing supplies of phosphorus ores. Chemical and heat treatment of sewage ...

Study finds the flow behavior of sewage sludge can be used as a tool to gauge how quickly organic matter is dissolving at high temperatures, paving the way for online monitoring. A new way of tracking ...

What is Refinery Oil Sludge, Why is it Toxic, and How is it Disposed Of? Vast amounts of refinery oil sludge are produced from the process of crude oil refining. Refinery oil sludge contains toxic ...

Chemical and heat treatment of sewage sludge can recover phosphorus in a process that could help address the problem of diminishing supplies of phosphorus ores. Valuable supplies of phosphorus could ...

For the Elgin Water Department, taking lime away is a $1.89 million annual proposition. Last week, the City Council unanimously agreed to pay that amount for removing lime residuals, which are a ...

Oct. 4—PHOENIXVILLE — Everything old is new again, at least at the Phoenixville Wastewater Treatment Plant. There, a "new" technology whose actual discovery dates back to before World War I is getting ...

SOURCE OF SLUDGE: The city of Asheville's North Fork Water Treatment Plant produced roughly 630,000 gallons of residuals in both 2017 and 2018. Photo by Adam McMillan A moldy half-sandwich, wilting ...

Most people don’t like to think about what happens to human waste once it’s flushed away but for Bryan Clor and others working on the receiving end at wastewater treatment plants (WWTP) it’s a ...