0 Garden: Design for the circular organic waste treatment in the high-rise residential building

Currently, the waste processing is always far from residents’ sight because most waste is transported to the centralised factories isolated from the urban context. As a result, Many residents are not aware of the importance of separating and recycling organic waste at the source. This is also same for many high-rise green façade projects, a new...

Highly selective recovery of medium chain carboxylates from co-fermented organic wastes using anion exchange with carbon dioxide expanded methanol desorption

The aim of this work was to recover a mixture of carboxylates ranging from 2 to 7 carbon atoms using a strong anion exchange resin, followed by desorption with CO₂-expanded methanol. Medium chain carboxylates hexanoate and heptanoate adsorbed better than acetate, and the corresponding medium chain carboxylic acids desorbed easier...

Evaluating the biomethane potential from the anaerobic co-digestion of palm oil mill effluent, food waste, and sewage sludge in Malaysia

The ever-increasing organic waste generation in Malaysia is a significant contributor to greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. However, organic wastes can be utilized to produce biogas by anaerobic digestion, which is a promising option for both energy and material recovery from organic wastes with high moisture content. Therefore, this study was...

Scaling-up microbial community-based polyhydroxyalkanoate production: status and challenges

Conversion of organic waste and wastewater to polyhydroxyalkanoates (PHAs) offers a potential to recover valuable resources from organic waste. Microbial community-based PHA production systems have been successfully applied in the last decade at lab- and pilot-scales, with a total of 19 pilot installations reported in the scientific...

Property Rights for Decentralised Organic Waste Processing

The increase in consumption of resources has led to more waste being generated, which then needs to be managed at the end of their life-cycle as waste. Current practices of waste management are not efficient as they lead to a release of emissions and a loss of value that is present in the resource, which is discarded as waste. New legislation...

Comparative Life Cycle Assessment of Different Organic Municipal Waste Treatments: A Case Study of the ReStore Project in the Amsterdam Neighbourhood

Within the Netherlands, approximately 8.5 million tonnes of solid waste are produced annually. Being the capital city with the most populated district in the Netherlands, higher municipal solid waste accumulation in Amsterdam is in existence. A substantial portion of the municipal waste in Amsterdam is categorized as organic waste, with a...

Impact of nanoscale magnetite and zero valent iron on the batch-wise anaerobic co-digestion of food waste and waste-activated sludge

As a potential approach for enhanced energy generation fromanaerobic digestion, iron-based conductive nanoparticles have been proposed to enhance the methane production yield and rate. In this study, the impact of two different types of iron nanoparticles, namely the nano-zero-valent-iron particles (NZVIs) and magnetite (Fe₃O<sub>4...

Techno-economic assessment of microbial electrosynthesis from CO₂ and/or organics: An interdisciplinary roadmap towards future research and application

Microbial electrosynthesis (MES) allows carbon-waste and renewable electricity valorization into industrially-relevant chemicals. MES has received much attention in laboratory-scale research, although a techno-economic-driven roadmap towards validation and large-scale demonstration of the technology is lacking. In this work, two main...

The design of a sustainable, hygienic and low-effort bin to collect and store organic waste in high-rise buildings: The Binbang Frisbox

The assignment is commissioned by BinBang, a company with the mission to save as much waste as possible from the incinerator. BigBang’s focus is on improving the waste separation approach of municipalities, consumers and companies, through their products, and basically by coaching the citizens. In high rise areas (HRAs) in the Netherlands,...

The Homecomposter

For the urban dwellers who are unfamiliar with vermicomposting and who are dissatisfied with the current sustainable waste solutions our product is a composting solution that provides a simple, charming and appealing product unlike any other vermicompost or urban waste processing system. To achieve this we have assembled the proper worms, a...

Public bodies' role as a driving force for sustainable behaviour change

In a resource scarcity context, public bodies have a fundamental role to promote sustainable consumption patterns. In Catalonia water scarcity and organic waste management are two fields in which the public bodies put in practice their instruments in order to change the citizens’ consumption patterns and to reduce the related environmental...

Wastewater treatment at AVR Rozenburg

Document(en) uit de collectie Chemische Procestechnologie

The production of hydrogen from domestic organic waste by means of biological conversion

Biological research ems-dollard estuary

This book, written primarily for decision-makers in the various government agencies concerned with the management of the estuary, describes the Ems-Dollard ecosystem and the forces operating on the ecosystem. The book contains the results of the BOEDE project, a multi-disciplinary investigation into the structure and function of an estuarine...