Research advances in deriving renewable energy from biomass in wastewater treatment plants

Abstract

Anaerobic digestion (AD) can be used to derive renewable energy from biomass in wastewater treatment plants, and the produced biogas represents a valuable end-product that can greatly offset operation costs.

Application of Pulsed Electric Energy for Lignocellulosic Biorefinery

“…Laboratory-and pilot-scale studies Fig. 7 The effects of FP treatment on sludge in a bench-and pilot-scale studies (Compiled from Zhang et al (2016)) confirm optimistic expectation for future industrial implementations of PEE techniques. There still exist certain limitations and negative effects that delay the delivery of efficient PEE-assisted techniques for industrial-scale applications in lignocellulosic biorefinery.…”

“…The payback period of setups was estimated as 3 years or less. Figure 7 compares the effects of FP pretreatment on sludge in bench-and pilot-scale studies (Zhang et al 2016). The impact of FP treatment on a digester performance at the bench-scale was rather noticeable and gave 2.5 times increase of CH 4 production as compared with untreated WAS.…”