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Enhancing Resource Recovery

Selectrodialysis for Nutrient Recovery from Greenhouse Wastewater

This thesis examines the feasibility of Selectrodialysis as an innovative and efficient technology for nutrient recovery from greenhouse wastewater. The study aims to address the critical challenges of water quality degradation and Na+ accumulation in greenhouse operations, where ...
As part of the global energy transition, large amounts of hydrogen will be needed to provide fuel for heavy-duty transport, heat for industrial processes, and as a feedstock in chemical processes. To be environmentally sustainable, this hydrogen has to be generated using electric ...
In developing countries with increased industrialization, much research is carried out in order to recover the maximum ammonium from the environment. One of the methods to recover ammonium is Bipolar Membrane Electrodialysis (BPMED), a chemical-free technology that enables recove ...
Nutrient recovery has lately been a concerning topic regarding the environmental friendliness of it and the high availability of technologies. Ammonia is one of the main compounds in reject water that could be recovered and utilized further in the agricultural sector. Several met ...
The excessive nitrogen in waterbodies, often caused by the discharge of ammonia-rich wastewaters, leads to eutrophication, disrupting aquatic ecosystems. Wastewater treatment plants play an important role in the removal and recovery of nitrogen from wastewater streams, thereby pr ...
Removal of ammonium from simulated ammonium salt solutions was done using bipolar membrane electrodialysis (BPMED), without the use of chemicals. The effect of spacer thickness and open area on the overall energy consumption of BPMED to transport ammonium from the diluate was ass ...

Recycling steam condensate for hydrogen production

Producing hydrogen through alkaline water electrolysis using electrolyte that contains ammonia

Producing green hydrogen can be done using alkaline water electrolysis. Recycling water might help to fulfil the large water demand of hydrogen production facilities. In fertiliser production, steam condensate could be a recyclable water source for hydrogen production. This conde ...

Extracellular Polymeric Substances from Aerobic Granular Sludge

Implications for Agricultural Use in Foliar Fertilization

This study explores the potential use of extracellular polymeric substances (EPS), commercially known as Kaumera Nereda Gum®, extracted from aerobic granular sludge (AGS), for foliar fertilization in agriculture. Koppert, a company specializing in sustainable agricultural product ...
This study evaluates the effectiveness of organic acids, specifically citric acid, lactic acid, and malic acid, as scrubbing agents for ammonia (NH3) recovery from waste air streams. The acid scrubbing process was modeled using Aspen Plus® and validated against sulfuric acid scru ...
Trials of surface modifications using low pressure chemical vapor deposition (LPCVD) has successfully decreased the high temperature needed for the fabrication of SiC membrane from 2000°C to below 900 °C. With this great success on the reduction of the energy con-sumption, howe ...
Pulp and paper industries are water-intensive industries and composed of complex production processes. Untreated pulping wastewater is very toxic and lethal to aquatic life if discharged untreated. Anaerobic treatment technology has gained interest in treating these types of wast ...
Natural organic matter is one of the key components to remove from source water during drinking water production. NOM not only negatively influences the colour, taste and smell of the water, it also decreases the effectiveness of common water treatment steps such as (membrane) fi ...

Purifying IJssellake water

Operation and performance analysis of direct hollow fiber nanofiltration on raw IJssellake water

The aim of this research was to evaluate the feasibility of direct hollow fiber nanofiltration membranes for drinking water purposes. The experiments were performed on the dNF40 pilot provided by NXF. The fouling potential and the ion retention of the dNF40 pilot were determined ...
This study aims to explore hydrogen production via alkaline water electrolysis using municipal effluent. The experiments were conducted in a flow cell electrolyzer using carbon fibre and Ni-foam as the anode, with another Ni-foam electrode employed as the cathode for all experime ...
In an aerobic granular sludge (AGS) reactor treating urban wastewater, nutrient removal depends on the availability of carbon source. Domestic wastewater consists of 40-60% of slowly biodegradable complex substrates, out of which proteins form a major fraction. Despite this, litt ...

Selective transport between monovalent and divalent ions in electrodialysis

The effect of current density and ionic species concentration

Industrial and municipal wastewaters often contain a high concentration of NH4+
To prevent excessive discharge into the environment, these wastewaters need to be treated. Electrodialysis has been shown to be a suitable technique for the removal and recovery of NH4+ from both ...
Zeolites can be used for the adsorption of organic micropollutants (OMPs) from water. In this research, the potential applications of zeolite granules for OMP removal in wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) were discovered. The adsorption of 18 target OMPs by zeolite granules was ...
Comammox bacteria are capable of catalysing the full nitrification pathway – oxidation of ammonium to nitrate – and have been encountered in many ecosystems recently (Lawson & Lücker, 2018). What the ecological role of comammox bacteria is in hypoxic enrichment cultures remai ...
Sludge management has gained importance over the years due to high sludge treatment and disposal cost, stringent disposal laws, and a need to move towards sustainable energy production. Anaerobic Digestion (AD) of waste activated sludge (WAS) is a favoured sludge stabilisation te ...
Various technologies have been implemented in wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) to generate clean effluent with minimised impacts on the environment. Thermal hydrolysis process (THP) and struvite crystallisation reactors are two examples of these technologies. THP generates hum ...