Screening of waste materials as adjuvants for drying sewage sludge based on environmental, technical and economic criteria

Gomes, Luciano A.; Santos, Andreia F.; Pinheiro, Carolina T.; Góis, José C.; Quina, Margarida J.

doi:10.1016/j.jclepro.2020.120927

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“…Authors Year Method Application/Development Deepa and Ganesan [48] 2018 Entropy Selection of agricultural crops de Araujo et al [49] 2019 Entropy Price analysis of agricultural products Deepa et al [50] 2019 CRITIC Ranking of agricultural data Lu et al [51] 2019 Entropy Selection of agricultural machinery Sadeghi Ravesh [52] 2019 Entropy Desertification and remediation plans for degraded land in agriculture Gomes et al [53] 2020 CRITIC Application of sewage sludge in agriculture Sabzevari et al [54] 2020 Entropy Choice of vegetable growing Khodaei et al [55] 2021 Entropy Strawberry storage Nedeljković et al [56] 2021 CRITIC Selection of harvesting machine Wichapa et al [57] 2021 CRITIC Agricultural waste management Polcyn [58] 2021 CRITIC Eco-efficiency and human capital on farms Polcyn et al [59] 2021 CRITIC The relationship between education and production on farms Dabkiene et al [60] 2021 Entropy Evaluation of farm and orchard efficiency Mitra et al [61] 2022 CRITIC Evaluation of crude fiber Lu et al [42] 2022 CRITIC Entropy Selection of agricultural machinery Puška et al [62] 2022b CRITIC Selection of pear varieties Kaghazchi et al [63] 2022 Entropy Irrigation systems…”

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Evaluation of Agricultural Machinery Using Multi-Criteria Analysis Methods

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To achieve the highest possible agricultural production, it is necessary to procure the appropriate agricultural machinery. A tractor is the most useful machine in agriculture that performs various functions. Therefore, the selection of a tractor is one of the key decisions in the agriculture-production process. This study aims to evaluate heavy tractors for agricultural production in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Since this is a selection between different tractors, which are evaluated using several criteria, the methods of multi-criteria analysis (MCDA) were used in this study. Five different methods were used to determine the weight of the criteria, of which a modified standard-deviation method is a new method used in practice, while the tractor ranking was performed using the CRADIS (compromise ranking of alternatives from distance to ideal solution) method. The results showed that the best-ranked tractor is A4, while the most deviations from the ranking occur when the entropy method is used. The contribution of this study is in the systematization of the methods for the objective determination of the criteria weights and the development of new methods to facilitate decision-making in agriculture and other industries.

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Evaluation of Agricultural Machinery Using Multi-Criteria Analysis Methods

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“…Romdhana et al compared four heat drying processes on hepatitis A virus control in sewage sludge; the agitated conductive process (120°C), fry-drying process (vacuum, oil temperature: 95°C) and drum drying process (112°C-137°C) exhibited complete inactivation of hepatitis A virus within 20 min, 10 min, and 10 s, respectively, and solar drying showed a much lower efficiency (Romdhana et al, 2009). High temperature plays a determining role in the inactivation of pathogenic microorganisms (Romdhana et al, 2009;Naidoo et al, 2019;Espinosa et al, 2020;Gomes et al, 2020), and the efficiency is highly dependent on the heat transfer rate. Thin-layer drying with rapid heat transfer required much less time to achieve sludge drying and sanitation (Romdhana et al, 2009).…”

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Inactivation and risk control of pathogenic microorganisms in municipal sludge treatment: A review

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Front. Environ. Sci. Eng.

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The rapid global spread of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has promoted concern over human pathogens and their significant threats to public health security. The monitoring and control of human pathogens in public sanitation and health facilities are of great importance. Excessive sludge is an inevitable byproduct of sewage that contains human and animal feces in wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs). It is an important sink of different pollutants and pathogens, and the proper treatment and disposal of sludge are important to minimize potential risks to the environment and public health. However, there is a lack of comprehensive analysis of the diversity, exposure risks, assessment methods and inactivation techniques of pathogenic microorganisms in sludge. Based on this consideration, this review summarizes the control performance of pathogenic microorganisms such as enterovirus, Salmonella spp., and Escherichia coli by different sludge treatment technologies, including composting, anaerobic digestion, aerobic digestion, and microwave irradiation, and the mechanisms of pathogenic microorganism inactivation in sludge treatment processes are discussed. Additionally, this study reviews the diversity, detection methods, and exposure risks of pathogenic microorganisms in sludge. This review advances the quantitative assessment of pathogenic microorganism risks involved in sludge reuse and is practically valuable to optimize the treatment and disposal of sludge for pathogenic microorganism control.

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“…When sludge is dried, approximately 80% of the moisture can be removed and this can be helped with an additive and by controlling the temperature. MCDA was used to select the best combinations of these options using TOPSIS and MOORA with weights selected using CRITIC [17,102]. The selection of areas suitable for land-spreading of sludge was demonstrated in Spain by [103] who used a PROMETHEE type MCDA method, with 12 criteria, built into a GIS system.…”

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Uptake and Dissemination of Multi-Criteria Decision Support Methods in Civil Engineering—Lessons from the Literature

Bruen

2021

Applied Sciences

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The SCOPUS and Wed of Science bibliometric databases were searched for papers related to the use of multi-criteria methods in civil engineering related disciplines. The results were analyzed for information on the reported geographical distribution of usage, the methods used, the application areas with most usage and the software tools used. There was a wide geographical distribution of usage with all northern hemisphere continents well represented. However, of the very many methods available, a small number seemed to dominate usage, with the Analytic Hierarchy Process being the most frequently used. The application areas represented in the documents found was not widely spread and mainly seemed to be focused on issues such as sustainability, environment, risk, safety and to some extent project management, with less usage on other areas. This may be due to individual engineer’s choices in relation to if and how to disseminate the results of their work and to their choice of keywords and titles that determine if their publications are selected in bibliographic searches and thus more visible to a wider readership. A comparison with more topic focused searches, relating to Bridge Design, Earthquake Engineering, Cladding, Sewage Treatment, Foundation design, Truss design, Water Supply, Building Energy, Route selection and Transport mode showed very different results. Analysis of the papers in this area indicated that the full range of supporting software available for multi-criteria decision analysis (many listed in this paper) may not be fully appreciated by potential users.

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Screening of waste materials as adjuvants for drying sewage sludge based on environmental, technical and economic criteria

Cited by 23 publications

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Evaluation of Agricultural Machinery Using Multi-Criteria Analysis Methods

Evaluation of Agricultural Machinery Using Multi-Criteria Analysis Methods

Inactivation and risk control of pathogenic microorganisms in municipal sludge treatment: A review

Uptake and Dissemination of Multi-Criteria Decision Support Methods in Civil Engineering—Lessons from the Literature

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