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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
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Fu, Mingyan (author), Heijman, Sebastiaan (author), van der Hoek, J.P. (author)Organic micropollutants (OMPs) that occur in the aquatic environment are an emerging concern. Adsorption by granular zeolites and regenerating exhausted zeolites by gaseous ozone is an innovative and advanced treatment technology for removing OMPs from wastewater treatment plant (WWTP) effluent. In this study, WWTP effluent spiked with eleven...journal article 2022
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Duque, Natalia (author), Bach, Peter M. (author), Scholten, L. (author), Fappiano, F. (author), Maurer, Max (author)Future climatic, demographic, technological, urban and socio-economic challenges call for more flexible and sustainable wastewater infrastructure systems. Exploratory modelling can help to investigate the consequences of these developments on the infrastructure. In order to explore large numbers of adaptation strategies, we need to re-balance...journal article 2022
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Bashiri, Reihaneh (author), Allen, Ben (author), Shamurad, Burhan (author), Pabst, M. (author), Curtis, Thomas P. (author), Ofiţeru, Irina D. (author)Poor lipid degradation limits low-temperature anaerobic treatment of domestic wastewater even when psychrophiles are used. We combined metagenomics and metaproteomics to find lipolytic bacteria and their potential, and actual, cold-adapted extracellular lipases in anaerobic membrane bioreactors treating domestic wastewater at 4 and 15 °C. Of...journal article 2022
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Miłobedzka, Aleksandra (author), Ferreira, Catarina (author), Vaz-Moreira, Ivone (author), Calderon Franco, D. (author), Gorecki, Adrian (author), Purkrtova, Sabina (author), Bartacek, Jan (author), Dziewit, Lukasz (author), Weissbrodt, D.G. (author)Antibiotic resistance (AR) is a global problem requiring international cooperation and coordinated action. Global monitoring must rely on methods available and comparable across nations to quantify AR occurrence and identify sources and reservoirs, as well as paths of AR dissemination. Numerous analytical tools that are gaining relevance in...review 2022
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Yang, Jixiang (author), van Lier, J.B. (author), Li, Jian (author), Guo, Jinsong (author), Fang, Fang (author)Conventional sewage treatment applying activated sludge processes is energy-intensive and requires great financial input, hampering widespread implementation. The introduction of anaerobic membrane bioreactors (AnMBR) followed by an algal reactor growing species of commercial interest, may present an alternative, contributing to the envisaged...review 2022
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Szabo Corbacho, M. (author), Pacheco-Ruiz, Santiago (author), Míguez, Diana (author), Hooijmans, Christine Maria (author), Brdjanovic, Damir (author), Garcia, Hector A. (author), van Lier, J.B. (author)This study evaluated the effects of sludge retention time (SRT) on the membrane filtration performance of an anaerobic membrane bioreactor (AnMBR) fed lipid-rich synthetic dairy wastewater. The membrane filtration performance was evaluated in two AnMBR systems operated at two different SRTs, i.e., 20 and 40 days. For the AnMBR operated at 40...journal article 2022
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Tsalidis, G.A. (author), Tourkodimitri, K. Panteleaki (author), Mitko, K. (author), Gzyl, G. (author), Skalny, A. (author), Posada Duque, J.A. (author), Xevgenos, Dimitris (author)Although the energy transition results in decreased use of coal for power production, hard coal extraction will continue due to its importance in steel production and coal mine wastewater will continue generating after mines closure. The coal mining sector produces wastewater which results in environmental burdens and often contains valuable...journal article 2022
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Calderon Franco, D. (author), Sarelse, R.G. (author), Christou, S. (author), Pronk, M. (author), van Loosdrecht, Mark C.M. (author), Abeel, T.E.P.M.F. (author), Weissbrodt, D.G. (author)In the One Health context, wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) are central to safeguarding water resources. Nonetheless, many questions remain about their effectiveness in preventing antimicrobial resistance (AMR) dissemination. Most surveillance studies monitor the levels and removal of selected antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs) and mobile...journal article 2022
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Piaggio, A.L. (author), Soares, Lais A. (author), Balakrishnan, Malini (author), Guleria, Tavishi (author), de Kreuk, M.K. (author), Lindeboom, R.E.F. (author)The Barapullah drain crosses through New Delhi, India, and transports millions of cubic meters of stormwater, municipal sewage and industrial sewage to the Yamuna River. Seasonal variations and ambiguous annual discharges cause 20-fold fluctuations in hydraulic flows, pollutants type and concentration. Furthermore, New Delhi is among the most...journal article 2022
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Panasiuk, Oleksandr (author), Hedström, Annelie (author), Langeveld, J.G. (author), Viklander, Maria (author)Infiltration and inflow (I/I) into sanitary sewers causes numerous negative effects on the whole wastewater management system and ultimately, on the receiving waters. Consequently, a number of methods have been developed to analyse the performance of sewer systems with respect to I/I, including: distributed temperature sensing (DTS), closed...journal article 2022
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Lam, K.L. (author), Solon, Kimberly (author), Jia, Mingsheng (author), Volcke, Eveline I. P. (author), van der Hoek, J.P. (author)Recovering phosphorus from wastewater in more concentrated forms has potential to sustainably recirculate phosphorus from cities to agriculture. The environmental sustainability of wastewater-based phosphorus recovery processes or wastewater-derived phosphorus products can be evaluated using life cycle assessment (LCA). Many LCA studies used a...journal article 2022
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Elhami, Vahideh (author), van de Beek, Noor (author), Wang, Liangshin (author), Picken, S.J. (author), Tamis, J. (author), Sousa, João A.B. (author), Hempenius, Mark A. (author), Schuur, Boelo (author)(3-hydroxybutyrate-co-3-hydroxyvalerate) (PHBV) obtained from waste/wastewater using a mixed microbial culture (MMC) usually varies in its properties due to daily variation in the waste/wastewater composition applied as feedstock. In the current study, the average molecular weight (MW) of PHBV was purposely reduced from about 1 MDa to about...journal article 2022
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Kim, Nam Kyeun (author), Lin, Richard (author), Bhattacharyya, Debes (author), van Loosdrecht, Mark C.M. (author), Lin, Y. (author)Eco-friendly flame retardants are greatly required to meet the expectations of low-toxicity, environmental compatibility and sustainability. Extracellular polymeric substances (EPS), the biopolymers recovered from excess granular wastewater sludge, have been successfully incorporated into poly(vinyl alcohol) (PVA) by a solution casting method...journal article 2022
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Park, Ji Won (author), Kim, S. (author), Noh, Jin Hyung (author), Bae, Young Ho (author), Lee, Jae Woo (author), Maeng, Sung Kyu (author)From 2022, industrial wastewater discharge regulations in South Korea will replace chemical oxygen demand (COD<sub>Mn</sub>) with total organic carbon (TOC). A shift from COD<sub>Mn</sub> to TOC is a pioneering change in protecting water bodies from organic contaminants. However, several industries are struggling to meet these TOC...journal article 2022
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Kim, E. (author), Park, Ji Won (author), Noh, Jin Hyung (author), Bae, Young Ho (author), Maeng, Sung Kyu (author)Since 2021, national standards of South Korea for industrial wastewater discharge to surface water have changed from chemical oxygen demand to total organic carbon for the organic matter. Conventional organic matter parameters (e.g., biochemical oxygen demand, chemical oxygen demand and total organic carbon) are limited means of understanding...journal article 2022
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Kosar, Sadiye (author), Isik, Onur (author), Cicekalan, Busra (author), Gulhan, Hazal (author), Sagir Kurt, Ece (author), Atli, Ezgi (author), Basa, Safak (author), Ozgun, Hale (author), van Loosdrecht, Mark C.M. (author)Aerobic granules contain microorganisms that are responsible for carbon, nitrogen, and phosphorus removal in aerobic granular sludge (AGS) process in which aerobic/anoxic/anaerobic layers (from surface to core) occur in a single granule. Optimizing the aerobic granular sludge (AGS) process for granulation and efficient nutrient removal can be...journal article 2022