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Ian Phillips, B.Sc.Eng., Dip. Env. Eng., C.Eng., M.I.E.I.
Air & Water Solutions, Bord na Móna Environmental Ltd., Ireland
(free)
Bord na Móna Environmental Ltd. has gained valuable experience in treatment with air emissions over the past twenty years. With […]
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Jan Gronow
Imperial College London
(free)
This paper considers some of the recent comparative studies of options for the diversion of biodegradable waste from landfill. It […]
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Tim Evans
TIM EVANS ENVIRONMENT
(free)
Food waste (FW) is a problem and an opportunity. This paper will review the alternative routes for its management. In […]
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*B. J. Chambers1, A. Bhogal1, P. Gibbs1, A. P. Whitmore2, D. S. Powlson2
1ADAS Gleadthorpe, 2Rothamsted Research,
(free)
The extent to which organic material returns could increase the organic carbon content of arable soils in the UK is […]
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Paul J.A. Withers1and Nicola J. Flynn2
1Catchment Management Group, ADAS UK Ltd, Gleadthorpe,
2Aquatic Environments Research Centre, Department of Geography, Whiteknights, University
of Reading
(free)
Practical guidelines on the sustainable recycling of phosphorus in biosolids to agricultural land are required to minimise the risk of […]
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Paul Gibbs*1, Brian Chambers1, Gail Bennett1, Richard Smith2, Helen Boyle2
1ADAS Gleadthorpe, Meden Vale,UK 2Severn Trent Water Ltd, UK
(free)
Biosolids (treated sewage sludge) provide a valuable source of plant available nutrients and organic matter that can be of benefit […]
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Stephen R. Smith, James Cass, Felipe Perez-Viana and Michael Rogers
Centre for Environmental Control and Waste Management, Department of Civil and
Environmental Engineering, Imperial College London
(free)
Protecting human health from infectious enteric disease is central to the controls and management practices adopted when sewage sludge is […]
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Panter, K.
Ebcor Ltd, UK
(free)
Since 2003 a number of WWTPs have observed elevation of E Coli densities following dewatering of digested sludge by high […]
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Prawat Sahakij1, Mark Ramirez2, Chris Peot2, and Steven Gabriel1
1University of Maryland, USA, 2District of Columbia Water and Sewer Authority, USA
(free)
A multi-objective optimisation model to simultaneously minimise biosolids odours as well as biosolids processing and distribution costs has been developed. […]
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Deborah Pritchard1, David Collins1, David Allen2and Nancy Penney3
1Curtin University of Technology, Muresk Institute, Northam, Western Australia,
2Chemistry Centre (WA), East Perth, Western Australia,
3Water Corporation of Western Australia, Leederville, Western Australia
(free)
Approximately half of all the agricultural soils in Australia are affected by soil acidity. Ground limestone is a product used […]
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Ian L. Pepper, Director, University of Arizona, Environmental Research Laboratory, USA
(free)
Currently about 60% of all biosolids are land applied in the United States, with most of the land receiving Class […]
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V. Suthagaran1, A. Arulrajah1, M.W. Bo 2 and J. Wilson1
1Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne, Australia, 2 DST Consulting Engineers, Ontario, Canada
(free)
Biosolids are defined as appropriately treated sewage sludge, which consists of untreated organic slurry residue derived from wastewater treatment processes. […]
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Alistair Forman1, Gary Cunliffe2
1Singleton Birch Ltd, 2Anglian Water Services
(free)
Anglian Water and Singleton Birch have been working together for more than 10 years in the field of biosolids treatment. […]
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L. Keay, BSc (Hons), MSc, AMIChemE C. Dewhirst, BSc (Hons), MSc.
Wessex Water Services Limited
(free)
The Safe Sludge Matrix introduced treatment requirements for sludge processes to ensure that potential pathogens such as E.coli 0157 and […]
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Willem Berbers1,and Alistair Forman2
1Carmeuse Coordination Centre,
2Singleton Birch
(free)
The use of lime for sludge conditioning before dewatering in filter presses (pre-liming) is a widely used concept. Lime (usually […]
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Jake Spooner1, Samuel Shepherd1and Clive Rigden1,
1Eco-Solids International Ltd.,
(free)
The Eco-solids Process (ESP) is an advanced lime stabilization process, with numerous benefits over standard systems. Recent work investigating the […]
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S. Bungay 1, K. Chapman 2, A. Buchanan 3, J. Crassweller 4, L. Barnes 5, M. Smyth 6
1Black & Veatch, 2Mott MacDonald, 3Black & Veatch, 4Black & Veatch, 5Anglian Water, and 6Aqua Enviro Ltd.
(free)
As part of their ongoing commitment to produce safe sewage sludge for recycling to agricultural land, Anglian Water are expanding […]
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Dirkse, E.H.M. B.Sc.
DMT Environmental Technology
(free)
Gas is an excellent fuel for a large number of applications and can also be used as raw material for […]
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Paul Walley
Cambi UK
(free)
Chertsey (Thames Water) Cambi thermal hydrolysis was refurbished during the early part of 2005 and started operation in August 2005 […]
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Stephen Cupples
Industrial Purification Systems Limited
(free)
This paper will give an overview of the applications to which self cleaning filters can be applied in order to […]
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Tomasz Janus
Water Software Systems, De Montfort University
(free)
A 5-day Biological Oxygen Demand (BOD5) is one of the parameters which are used to determine the amount of biodegradable […]
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Dr William P F Barber PhD DIC BEng(Hons) MIChemE MCIWEM CEng CEnv, United Utilities
(free)
This paper details how a mass balance, which was conducted for all of United Utilities’ anaerobic digestion plants, was used […]
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Steen Nielsen
Orbicon A/S
(free)
The Nordborg Sludge Reed Bed System was established and planted with reeds in September 2003. The Reed Bed System has […]
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Ursula Kepp and Amaya Arias-Garcia
RPS Group PLC
(free)
The EU Landfill Directive aims to reduce the pollution potential from landfilled waste and its contribution to climate change. The […]
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Herman Sioen, Luc Vriens
Waterleau NV
(free)
Waterleau developed a new technology for sludge drying, called PuttArt®, after its inventor. The design is based on simultaneously drying […]
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P. Knoer, A. Poisson, Degrémont Technologies, INNOPLANA
(free)
It is now 10 years since the first sewage sludge drying plant, built according to the innovative INNODRY system was […]
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Steven J Manchester and Mike Ward
BRE Fire and Security
(free)
The aim of this paper is to inform Managers of sewage sludge dryers about their legal obligations under the new […]
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Steve Clay1, Kim Thompson2, Rachel Edgington3
1Consultant, 2TVD(UK) Ltd, 3Severn Trent Water
(free)
Sewage sludge driers have been used for almost a hundred years and the “new generation” have been installed, with varying […]
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Alan Whipps (Pell Frischmann Consultants)
(free)
This paper explores the role and impact of the UK’s Health and Safety Executive’s (HSE) initiative on Competency Management Systems. […]
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Deshai Botheju1*, Øystein Svalhei2, Bjørn Rydtun2, Jo-Ela Johansen2,Trond Knapp Haraldsen3 and Rune Bakke1
1Telemark University College, Norway, 2BioTek AS, Norway, 3Bioforsk, Soil and Environment Division, Norway.
(free)
Effluents from anaerobically digested wet organic wastes can be upgraded to a commercial fertilizer by increasing its concentration. Direct evaporation […]
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Evans, T. D.1; Boor, M.2and MacBrayne, D.3
1TIM EVANS ENVIRONMENT; 2EWB Designs; 3Scottish Water Waste Services
(free)
This paper describes a plant that complies with Animal By-Products Regulations for Category II and III material. It will convert […]
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Magdalena Svanström and Morgan Fröling
Chemical Environmental Science, Chalmers University of Technology,
(free)
Biorefineries are process solutions that turn raw materials from renewable sources into valuable products, normally different types of materials, chemicals […]
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Alina Stoica
Karlstad University, Sweden
(free)
This paper describes a mathematical model for comparing different sludge handling strategies. The aim of the model is to facilitate […]
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Rachel Edgington and Andrew Thompson
Severn Trent Water
(free)
Severn Trent Water operates over 1000 sewage works and 43 sludge treatment centres. About 150,000 dry tonnes per annum of […]
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Mick Dawson1, Thanos Sotiriadis2
1BHR Group Limited
2Shaw Group, Stone & Webster
(free)
Rheological parameters are one of the most important measures of the physical consistency of sludges. Due to the different composition […]
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M.S. Le1, D. Harrison2 and A. Werker3
1United Utilities PLC, Lingley Mere Business Park, Warrington, WA5 3LP.
2Monsal, Oak House, Ransom Wood Park, Southwell Road West, Mansfield, NG21 0HJ.
3AnoxKaldnes AB, Klosterängsvägen 11A, S-226 47 Lund, Sweden.
(free)
Environmental release of pathogens and green house gas emissions are the two key concerns in sludge management. In this paper […]
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Froud, C.1 and Weber, R.2,
1CSO Technik Ltd, 2Biogest AG
(free)
Anaerobic digestion enhancement systems are in real danger of getting a bad name due to some recent high profile problems […]
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Jake Spooner 1, Tom Taylor 2, Fiona Shaw 3, Manocher Asaadi 4, Sam Shepherd1, Clive Rigden 1
1 Yorkshire Water Services, 2 Eco-Solids International, 3 Earth Tech Engineering, 4 AD Technologies
(free)
The continual rise in energy prices and environmental concerns over the past few years have prompted companies to review and […]
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Bailey, E.1 and Mendez, E.2
1Eimco Water Technologies, USA, 2MBR Enviroquip, a Division of Eimco Water Technologies
(free)
In 2005 Enviroquip, a division of Eimco Water Technologies (EWT) began operation of two historic Membrane Bioreactor (MBR) plants; the […]
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Michael Dooley, Strathkelvin Instruments Ltd
(free)
The control of dissolved oxygen levels in Waste Water Treatment plants has been the subject of considerable technological improvement over […]
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Gordon Thomas and HenkWim de Mooij, Grontmij
(free)
SHARON stands for Stable High rate Ammonia Removal Over Nitrite. A brief explanation of the functioning of the process is […]
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Joanna Wawrzynczyk1*, Liza Kullenberg1, Michael Recktenwald2, Olof Norrlöw2 and Estera Szwajcer Dey1
1Pure and Applied Biochemistry, LTH, Lund University, Box 124, SE-22100 Lund, Sweden 2
Recycling Competence Centre, Kemira Kemi AB, Box 902, SE-25109 Helsingborg, Sweden
(free)
Waste activated sludge originating from a local municipal wastewater treatment plant in Lund, Sweden, was treated with different biological methods. […]
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Dirkse, E.H.M. B.Sc.
DMT Environmental Technology
(free)
Lengthy detention times and warm weather / climate leads to septic waste water producing copious amounts of not only hydrogen […]
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Froud, Colin2, Letto, Daryl1, Webb, Derek1,
1BIOREM Technologies Inc., Guelph, Ontario, Canada 2CSO Tecknik Ltd, UK
(free)
Permanent media biofilters have demonstrated odour removal efficiencies greater than 95% on a variety of highly odorous wastewater treatment processes, […]
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Christophe Renner1, Jean-Pierre Levasseur1, Philippe G. Micone2 & Thierry Pagé2
1Veolia Water, 2Odotech
(free)
The composting unit built on the Ginestous site (Toulouse, France) treats 11,000 T/year of 30% dehydrated solid-matter sludge. The production […]
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Eakalak Intarakosit 1, Gregory B. Baecher 1, PhD, Christopher Peot 2 , PE, Mark Ramirez 2
1University of Maryland, College Park, 2 DC Water and Sewer Authority (DCWASA)
(free)
The land application of wastewater biosolids may generate nuisance odours emissions due to elevated biosolids emissions levels, unfavorable weather conditions, […]
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Dr. Peter Stenbro-Olsen, Senior Policy Officer, Waste & Resource Unit
Scottish Environment Protection Agency (SEPA)
(free)
The treatment of biowaste is seen as an essential component in the Scottish strategy for the diversion of waste from […]
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Ampun Janpengpen1, Gregory Baecher1, Ph.D., Hyunook Kim2, Ph.D.,Christopher Peot3, P.E., Mark Ramirez3
1Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Maryland, USA
2United States Department of Agriculture, USA
3District of Columbia Water and Sewer Authority,
(free)
A real-time odor monitoring system was developed to evaluate and predict odors levels of dewatered solids generated by the District […]
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Sirapong Vilalai 1, Steven A. Gabriel 1, Christopher Peot 2 , and Mark Ramirez 2
1Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, University of Maryland, College Park,
Maryland, USA
2 District of Columbia Water and Sewer Authority, Washington, DC, USA
(free)
Biosolids are being beneficially recycled for agricultural purpose. Often, however, biosolids odours diminish marketability of biosolids, bring community opposition or, […]
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Les Nemeth1, Reza Iranpour2, Huub H. J. Cox2, Steve Arant3, Brian Hystad5
and Tom Wilson4
1Earth Tech, 201-3275 Lakeshore Road, Kelowna, BC V1W 3S9, Canada.
2City of Los Angeles, CA,
3Earth Tech, Sheboygan, WI,
4Earth Tech, Alexandria, VA,
5Greater Vancouver Regional District, BC
(free)
Temperature Phased Anaerobic Digestion (TPAD) has been the most popular form of thermophilic anaerobic digestion in the US for some […]
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Delphine Nawawi1, Julien Chauzy1, Andrew B. Gilbert2 and Didier Cretenot1
1 Veolia Water Technical Department
2 Veolia Water Solution and Technologies
(free)
The BioThelys® process is the combination of a thermal hydrolysis pre-treatment and a mesophilic anaerobic digestion with low residence time. […]
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Tom Wilson 1, Rudy Kilian2, and Lee Potts 3
1 Earth Tech, Alexandria VA, 2Carollo Engineers, San Antonio, TX 3 Earth Tech, Tankersley, UK
(free)
This paper is about the acid-gas (AG) anaerobic digestion process. This is the first update presented by the authors to […]
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Foo, M1., Dutt, S1., Harrison, D2.
1Skanska Aker Kvaerner, 2Monsal Ltd
(free)
As part of a significant investment in Advanced Digestion technology in AMP 4, Anglian Water has installed an Enhanced Enzymic […]
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Wojtech.Sargalski, Odd Egil Solheim, Carsten Fjordside
Cambi AS*
(free)
This paper describes how the Cambi Thermal Hydrolysis Process (THP) treats biodegradable organic waste and converts it to renewable energy […]
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Esteves S.1*, Monson K.2 , Guwy A.1 and Dinsdale R.1
1Sustainable Environment Research Centre (SERC), Faculty of Health, Sports and Science,
University of Glamorgan, Pontypridd, Wales, UK, CF37 1DL
2BWT(NI), Newtonwards, County Down, NI, BT22 2AP
(free)
This paper reviews the past and current status and trends on the deployment of anaerobic digestion (AD) for treating biodegradable […]
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Pearce, A.1, McEnroe, P.2 and Yates, A.2
1United Utilities, 2MWH
(free)
This paper gives information on United Utilities Mersey Valley Processing Centre, Advanced Control System covering: • A summary of the […]
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Ray Kearney, Kevin Bolin, and Brian Dooley
EnerTech Environmental, Inc.
(free)
The current trend in biosolids management in the United States is less Class B land application and more production of […]
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Jon McAteer, Veolia Water Solutions & Technologies
(free)
There have been various attempts to install and operate Green Energy plants throughout Europe with varying degrees of success. This […]
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Whipp, S., United Utilities, UK
(free)
The paper describes achievements in wastewater sludge treatment by United Utilities in response to the changing business, social and environmental […]
