A Performance Measurement Tool Leading Wastewater Treatment Plants toward Economic Efficiency and Sustainability

Guerrini, Andrea; Romano, Giulia; Ferretti, Simone; Fibbi, Donatella; Daddi, Daniele

doi:10.3390/su8121250

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“…As can be seen in Table 4, the four plants had their highest consumption in 2015, as indicated by WF Blue . Torremenga WWTP had its highest WF Blue value in 2015 (1.37 m 3 •month −1 /m 3 on average, as shown in Table 4). On average, Torremenga is the plant with the most water consumption despite being the smallest (933 PE).…”

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“…To this purpose, WFD challenges water resource managers to work on the evaluation and sustainable management of the water cycle, in which wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) have a crucial role [1]. Sustainability assessment of WWTPs through indicators such as those collected in the environmental footprint family [2] is vital to identify the impact of WWTPs on the environment and to improve the process towards cleaner, and more sustainable production [3]. Footprint assessment methods clearly and easily identify, describe and quantify the complexity of water-related impact associated with wastewater management [4].…”

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Wastewater Treatment Plant Assessment by Quantifying the Carbon and Water Footprint

Gómez-Llanos

Matías-Sánchez

Durán‐Barroso

2020

Water

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In the context of efficient and sustainable management of the elements of the urban water cycle as an aim of the Water Framework Directive (WFD), the evaluation of indicators such as the water footprint (WF) and the carbon footprint (CF) in a wastewater treatment plant (WWTP) provides a quantification of the environmental impact, both negative and positive, which implies its exploitation. In this study, in addition to WF and CF quantification, a joint evaluation of both indicators was conducted. Consumption is indicated by the blue water footprint (WFBlue) and emissions by CF. Both are related to the operational grey water footprint (∆WFG,mef) in two ratios, WFR and CFR. In this way, the water consumed and gases emitted are measured according to the reduction range of the pollutant load of the discharge. The results for four WWTPs show operational scenarios for better management in accordance with the WFD.

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Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Wastewater Treatment Plant Assessment by Quantifying the Carbon and Water Footprint

Gómez-Llanos

Matías-Sánchez

Durán‐Barroso

2020

Water

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“…Energy efficiency evaluation is critical to implement target strategies for energy reduction [8,9]. Several studies have been conducted for energy efficiency analysis, such as specific energy consumption, life cycle assessment and so on [10][11][12][13][14][15].…”

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Energy efficiency evaluation for wastewater treatment plant

Li¹,

ZhiHong²,

Wang³

2018

Desalination and Water Treatment

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Wastewater treatment plant (WWTP) is one of the energy-intensive industries. Energy efficiency evaluation is critical to energy-saving and emission-reduction. The energy efficiency was closely associated with the influent loads, organic, nutrient and other factors. It is difficult to identify the complex relationships between energy efficiency and wastewater. This article presents grey fixed weight clustering for evaluating the energy efficiency of WWTP. An overall energy efficiency index for WWTP is calculated from the individual energy use device indices. The weights of each devices were according with the energy end use consumption breakdown. The application of this method enabled the identification of device-specific measure to increase the energy use efficiency. In addition, a new grey correlation degree method was used to analyze the relationship between energy efficiency and the influence factors. The results of this study allow wastewater managers to better develop sewage-treatment strategies for wastewater treatment plants.

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“…Due to the increasing attention paid to sanitation issues globally, many related projects have emerged in countries around the world. At the same time, research is being done to evaluate these projects(Cha et al, 2017;Nakagiri et al, 2017;Guerrini et al, 2016). In addition, bridging the water infrastructure gap has become a major policy concern(Ducrot and Bourblanc, 2017).…”

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Trends in global research on sanitation: a 30-year perspective from 1990 to 2019

Huang

Zhou

2021

Environ. Rev.

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In the past three decades, the field of sanitation has attracted much academic attention, and a large volume of relevant research results have emerged. In order to explore the characteristics and trends of global sanitation research literature, this paper presents a bibliometric analysis of 9559 articles published between 1990–2019 and extracted from the Web of Science Core Collection database. With the rapid increase in the number of related publications, both the breadth and depth of sanitation studies have increased significantly in the 21st century. In terms of multiple criteria, the comprehensive research strength of developed countries is greater than that of developing countries. The field is highly interdisciplinary, meaning that collaborations between research institutions are increasing. Keyword clustering analysis shows that the main research topics in the domain of sanitation are: (a) drinking water; (b) sustainability; (c) biofilm; (d) epidemiology; and (e) WaSH (i.e. Water, Sanitation and Hygiene). Meanwhile, keyword bursts analysis showed that the new research hotspots and frontiers mainly concentrated on: (a) sustainable development of sanitation services adapting to climate change; (b) main determinants affecting child malnutrition; (c) research based on global and multinational data; and (d) evaluations on various aspects of performance. This paper provides a better understanding of sanitation research trends that have emerged over the past 30 years, and can serve as a reference for future research.

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A Performance Measurement Tool Leading Wastewater Treatment Plants toward Economic Efficiency and Sustainability

Cited by 23 publications

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Wastewater Treatment Plant Assessment by Quantifying the Carbon and Water Footprint

Wastewater Treatment Plant Assessment by Quantifying the Carbon and Water Footprint

Energy efficiency evaluation for wastewater treatment plant

Trends in global research on sanitation: a 30-year perspective from 1990 to 2019

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