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Piccolo, Vincenzo (author)In the treatment of industrial wastewater, the biological removal of aniline & nitrogen often occurs simultaneously within the hyper-saline water matrix. This study focuses on pioneering the research<br/>on combined aniline-nitrogen removal in a hyper-saline environment. The experimental approach assessed the cause of nitrite accumulation...master thesis 2023
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Calderon Franco, D. (author)Antibiotic resistance is one of the biggest threats to global health, food security, and development today, leading to a growing number of difficult-to-treat infections and an economic burden. It can affect anyone of any age and in any country. It is mainly accelerated by the misuse and abuse of antibiotics, poor hygiene, and a lack of...doctoral thesis 2023
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Snijders, Kevin (author)Curaçao's coral reefs are subjected to a deteriorating momentum risking the health and therefore sustainability of this vital ecosystem. Despite the dependency of the Island's prosperity on the condition of the ecosystem, research suggests that wastewater management is likely to be a significant contributor to this effect. Incorporating both...student report 2023
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Kosar, Sadiye (author), Isik, Onur (author), Cicekalan, Busra (author), Gulhan, Hazal (author), Cingoz, Seyma (author), Yoruk, Mustafa (author), Ozgun, Hale (author), van Loosdrecht, Mark C.M. (author), Ersahin, Mustafa Evren (author)Achieving a neutral/positive energy balance without compromising discharge standards is one of the main goals of wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) in terms of sustainability. Aerobic granular sludge (AGS) technology promises high treatment performance with low energy and footprint requirement. In this study, high-rate activated sludge (HRAS...journal article 2023
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Ochs, Pascal (author), Martin, Ben (author), Germain-Cripps, Eve (author), Stephenson, Tom (author), van Loosdrecht, Mark C.M. (author), Soares, Ana (author)Over the past twenty years, various commercial technologies have been deployed to remove ammonia (NH<sub>4</sub>–N) from anaerobic digestion (AD) liquors. In recent years many anaerobic digesters have been upgraded to include a pre-treatment, such as the thermal hydrolysis process (THP), to produce more biogas, increasing NH<sub>4</sub>–N...journal article 2023
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Li, Mengyu (author), Bai, Yahan (author), Zhuang, Wei (author), Liu, Jinle (author), Wang, Zhi (author), Rao, Yuan (author), Li, Mengran (author), Ying, Hanjie (author), Ouyang, Pingkai (author)A novel magnetic 2D/2D heterogeneous structure MXene@NiFe-LDH@Fe<sub>3</sub>O<sub>4</sub> was prepared for immobilization of laccase. In this work, two-dimensional MXene nanosheets with abundant surface functional groups were heterogeneously assembled with layered double hydroxide (LDH) by in situ co-precipitation method, and magnetic...journal article 2023
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Ziliani, Agustina (author), Bovio-Winkler, Patricia (author), Cabezas, Angela (author), Etchebehere, Claudia (author), Garcia, Hector A. (author), López-Vázquez, Carlos M. (author), Brdjanovic, Damir (author), van Loosdrecht, Mark C.M. (author), Rubio-Rincón, Francisco J. (author)Ca. Accumulibacter was the predominant microorganism (relative FISH bio-abundance of 67 ± 5%) in a lab-scale sequential batch reactor that accomplished enhanced biological phosphorus removal (EBPR) while using glucose and acetate as the carbon sources (1:1 COD-based ratio). Both organic compounds were completely anaerobically consumed. The...journal article 2023
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Pryce, David (author), Kapelan, Z. (author), Memon, Fayyaz A. (author)Limiting the introduction of excess nitrogen to natural water sources is a growing priority for water security and environmental health. This poses particular difficulties in urban environments where available land for potential solutions is limited. A promising option is the integrated fixed-film activated sludge (IFAS) process that requires...journal article 2023
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Ravi Anusuyadevi, P. (author), Prasanna Kumar, Darsi Jaya (author), Omkaara Jyothi, A.D.H.V. (author), Patwardhan, Neha S. (author), Janani, V. (author), Mol, J.M.C. (author)The maintenance of people’s lifestyle against global climate change, exhaustion of groundwater, depletion of minerals, and water scarcity has instigated the recycling and reuse of water from unlikely sources. This situation has motivated researchers to develop effective technologies for treating wastewater, enabling its reuse. Water security has...review 2023
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Strubbe, Laurence (author), van Dijk, E.J.H. (author), Deenekamp, Pascalle J.M. (author), van Loosdrecht, Mark C.M. (author), Volcke, Eveline I.P. (author)In the pursuit of reducing carbon footprint and in view of increasing energy prices, energy efficiency is more important than ever before. Batch-wise operated aerobic granular sludge reactors consume up to 50% less energy compared to conventional activated sludge systems because pumping energy is reduced and mixing equipment is not needed....journal article 2023
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Izquierdo-Lara, Ray W. (author), Heijnen, Leo (author), Oude Munnink, Bas B. (author), Schapendonk, Claudia M.E. (author), Elsinga, Goffe (author), Langeveld, J.G. (author), Post, Johan (author), Prasad, Divyae K. (author), Medema, G.J. (author)Monitoring of SARS-CoV-2 in wastewater (WW) is a promising tool for epidemiological surveillance, correlating not only viral RNA levels with the infection dynamics within the population, but also to viral diversity. However, the complex mixture of viral lineages in WW samples makes tracking of specific variants or lineages circulating in the...journal article 2023
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Stikkers, Anastasia (author)This thesis provides knowledge on factors affecting the representativeness of wastewater-based epidemiology (WBE) for monitoring the SARS-CoV-2 virus. The application of WBE to monitor health parameters has become essential due to the COVID-19 outbreak in March 2020. WBE is a well-known method to track the SARS-CoV-2 virus in wastewater and is...master thesis 2022
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Kokubo Roche, Akemi (author)Water scarcity problems will continue to exacerbate in many parts of the world, urging society to mitigate or adapt. Consequently, unconventional water resources, such as municipal wastewater, are becoming more relevant. This thesis aims to measure and evaluate the social impacts of wastewater treatment (WWT) systems potentially stemming from...master thesis 2022
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Della Pietra, Diana (author)In our effort to control it, water in our cities has progressively been confined between lines, canalised or culverted underground, resulting in its gradual isolation and erasure from our sight and collective imagination. As freshwater availability and water-related hazards are brought to the forefront of sustainable development goals, the long...master thesis 2022
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Bonavita, Daniele (author)From 2018 to 2020, the city of Breda (NL) faced drought, with significant economic losses and water scarcity problems. The water board within which the city is located began to consider new possible water management practices, due to the unsustainability of the current ones. This study aims to investigate how a change of the current paradigm can...master thesis 2022
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van der Lugt, Mart (author)Since the start of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic, the monitoring of SARS-CoV-2 by way of viral RNA sequencing of wastewater has proven to be an efficient and effective way of estimating COVID-19 cases in population groups. A recently developed pipeline also enables us to estimate SARS-CoV-2 variant abundance using viral samples from wastewater. This...bachelor thesis 2022
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Nika, Ioanna (author)Lineage abundance estimation of SARS-CoV-2 in wastewater is a technique that aims to monitor the lineage prevalence in communities and help contain the COVID-19 pandemic. Lineages are collections of closely related mutants of a virus. It is suggested that the genome sequences of lineages differ across the globe due to random mutations or...bachelor thesis 2022
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Kalia, Yash (author)Monitoring of SARS-CoV-2 variants is crucial to efforts in combating the COVID-19 pandemic. Lineage level abundance estimates for SARS-CoV-2 can be obtained from viral material present in domestic wastewater. The abundance predictions can be made at different levels of granularity-individual lineage level(high granularity) or variant level(low...bachelor thesis 2022
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Muñoz Sierra, Julian (author)Industrial wastewaters generated in chemical industries are often characterized by extreme conditions, such as the presence of complex, recalcitrant, and toxic aromatic compounds, high temperature, and high salinity. The mentioned conditions predominantly occur when chemical industries reduce process water use or strive for closing water loops....doctoral thesis 2022
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Calderon Franco, D. (author), Orschler, Laura (author), Lackner, Susanne (author), Agrawal, Shelesh (author), Weissbrodt, D.G. (author)The severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) pandemia has been one of the most difficult challenges humankind has recently faced. Wastewater-based epidemiology has emerged as a tool for surveillance and mitigation of potential viral outbreaks, circumventing biases introduced by clinical patient testing. Due to the situation...journal article 2022