Higher aerobic digestion rates and improved levels of waste activated sludge stabilization were sought through a physico-chemical pretreatment step that modified the substrate of the conventional ...

A study was undertaken to develop low-temperature, operating, and performance guidelines for aerobic digestion of waste-activated sludge. With high-rate activated sludge as feed, various modes of ...

The death of a sewage plant maintenance worker in 2004 set the stage for a multimillion dollar project to build two egg-shaped sewage “digesters” at Spokane’s wastewater treatment plant on Aubrey L.

The Navy has established aggressive targets for reducing energy consumption and increasing renewable energy production. To help achieve the goals laid out in the Navy's energy program, the NAS ...

Everything old is new again, at least at the Phoenixville Wastewater Treatment Plant. There, a "new" technology whose actual discovery dates back to before World War I is getting ready to ...

Few people get as excited about wastewater as Thomas Fudge. He has good reason: He and his colleagues believe they have figured out how to turn sludge into gold. Wastewater from places like breweries ...

APPLETON, Wis. (WBAY) - Appleton’s anaerobic digesters have been taken offline due to an issue with a processing chemical, according to the city. Anaerobic digesters are part of the wastewater ...

The municipality has invested millions to pressure cook sewage sludge, in hopes of cutting its climate pollution.

Bacteria are evolving resistance to antibiotics at an alarming rate, fueled by decades of overuse of the drugs in medicine and agriculture. Now researchers have developed a method that could slow the ...