Projects

Papers

THERMAL HYDROLYSIS (teCH4+) (8 papers)

• 2023 Casos prácticos de digestión avanzada de lodos de edar mediante tecnología de hidrólisis térmica
• 2021 Comparative analysis of the thermal hydrolysis integration within WWTPs as a pre-, inter- or post-treatment for anaerobic digestion of sludge
• 2018 La EDAR autosuficiente: hoja de ruta
• 2016 Second generation THP optimizes energy integration
• 2016 Energy optimization of thermal hydrolysis processes to ensure energy self-sufficiency
• 2016 Digestión anaerobia de lodos de depuradora: ¿biogás o biosólido?
• 2016 Optimum energy integration of thermal hydrolysis through pinch analysis
• 2015 Hidrólisis térmica de segunda generación. Proceso tH4+

Thermal Hydrolysis (University of Valladolid) (19 papers)

• Sludge minimisation technologies
• Continuous thermal hydrolysis and energy integration in sludge anaerobic digestion plants
• Hydrothermal multivariable approach. Full-scale feasibility study
• Turning up the heat
• Increasing the performance of anaerobic digestion: Pilot scale experimental study for thermal hydrolysis of mixed sludge
• Application of simplified models for anaerobic biodegradability tests. Evaluation of pre-treatment processes
• Enhancement of the conventional anaerobic digestion of sludge: comparison of four different strategies
• Assessment of the influence of thermal pre-treatment time on the macromolecular composition and anaerobic biodegradability of sewage sludge
• Continuous thermal hydrolysis and anaerobic digestion of sludge. Energy integration study
• Influence of thermal pretreatment on the biochemical methane potential of wheat straw
• Thermal pretreatment and hydraulic retention time in continuous digesters fed with sewage sludge: Assessment using the ADM1
• Thermal steam explosion pretreatment to enhance anaerobic biodegradability of the solid fraction of pig manure
• Grease waste and sewage sludge co-digestion enhancement by thermal hydrolysis: batch and fed-batch assays
• Biomethane potential of wheat straw: Influence of particle size, water impregnation and thermal hydrolysis
• Thermal hydrolysis integration in the anaerobic digestion process of different solid wastes: Energy and economic feasibility study
• Effect of thermal hydrolysis and ultrasounds pretreatments on foaming in anaerobic digesters
• Evaluation of thermal steam-explosion key operation factors to optimize biogas production from biological sludge
• Energy feasibility study of sludge pretreatments: A review
• From pre-treatment toward inter-treatment. Getting some clues from sewage sludge biomethanation

Others Pre-treatments (6 papers)

• Ultrasound pre-treatment for anaerobic digestion improvement
• Full-stream and part-stream ultrasound treatment effect on sludge anaerobic digestion
• ADM1 calibration using BMP tests for modeling the effect of autohydrolysis pretreatment on the performance of continuous sludge digesters
• Biochemical methane potential of microalgae biomass after lipid extraction
• Review of solid state fermentation for lignocellulolytic enzyme production: challenges for environmental applications
• Review of lignocellulolytic enzyme activity analyses and scale-down to microplate-based assays

Anaerobic processes (20 papers)

• Low temperature treatment of municipal sewage in anaerobic fluidized bed reactors
• Anaerobic Treatment of Cheese-Production Wastewater using a UASB Reactor
• Effects of biofilm growth, gas and liquid velocities on the expansion of an anaerobic fluidized bed reactor (AFBR)
• Evaluation of methanogenic kinetics in an anaerobic fluidized bed reactor (AFBR)
• Anaerobic treatment of polythylene terephthalate (PET) wastewater from lab to full scale
• Use of activated carbon and natural zeolite as support materials, in an anaerobic fluidised bed reactor, for vinasse treatment
• Combined anaerobic/aerobic (UASB + UBAF) system for organic matter and nitrogen removal from a high strength industrial wastewater
• Automated equipment for anaerobic sludge parameters determination
• Automated manometric method to assess anaerobic toxicity of chemicals
• Present and perspectives of anaerobic treatment of domestic sewage
• Modeling of the anaerobic digestion of sewage sludge: Evaluation of several reactor configurations
• Initial rates technique as a procedure to predict the anaerobic digester operation
• Biochemical methane potential of microalgae: Influence of substrate to inoculum ratio, biomass concentration and pretreatment
• Long-term hydrolytic capacity evaluation of a thermophilic anaerobic digester treating sewage sludge
• Anaerobic co-digestion of sewage sludge and grease trap: Assessment of enzyme addition
• Anaerobic digestion modeling of the maincomponents of organic fraction of municipal solidwaste
• anaerobic degradation of sewage sludge
• organic fraction municipal solid waste and biological sludge
• Long-term operation of a pilot scale anaerobic membrane bioreactor (AnMBR) for the treatment of municipal wastewater under psychrophilic conditions
• A novel configuration for an anaerobic submerged membrane bioreactor (AnSMBR). Long-term treatment of municipal wastewater under psychrophilic conditions

Microaerobic (20 papers)

• Combining the biological nitrogen and sulfur cycles in anaerobic conditions
• Simultaneous organic nitrogen and sulfate removal in an anaerobic GAC fluidised bed reactor
• New process for simultaneous removal of nitrogen and sulphur under anaerobic conditions
• Sulfide removal by moderate oxygenation of anaerobic sludge environments
• Control of sulphide during anaerobic treatment of S-containing wastewaters by adding limited amounts of oxygen or nitrate
• Hydrogen sulphide removal in the anaerobic digestion of sludge by micro-aerobic processes: pilot plant experience
• Performance evaluation of oxygen, air and nitrate for the microaerobic removal of hydrogen sulphide in biogas from sludge digestion
• Effect of oxygen dosing point and mixing on the microaerobic removal of hydrogen sulphide in sludge digesters
• Determination of the optimal rate for the microaerobic treatment of several H2S concentrations in biogas from sludge digesters
• Effect of microaerobic conditions on the degradation kinetics of cellulose
• sulfide from biogas
• The role of the headspace in hydrogen sulfide removal during microaerobic digestion of sludge
• Molecular analysis of the biomass of a fluidized bed reactor treating synthetic vinasse at anaerobic and micro-aerobic conditions
• The potential of oxygen to improve the stability of anaerobic reactors during unbalanced conditions: Results from a pilot-scale digester treating sewage sludge
• Microaerobic desulphurisation unit: A new biological system for the removal of H2S from biogas
• The headspace of microaerobic reactors: Sulphide-oxidising population and the impact of cleaning on the efficiency of biogas desulphurisation
• Microaerobic control of biogas sulphide content during sewage sludge digestion by using biogas production and hydrogen sulphide concentration
• Microaerobic digestion of sewage sludge on an industrial-pilot scale: The efficiency of biogas desulphurisation under different configurations and the impact of O2 on the microbial communities
• Where does the removal of H2S from biogas occur in microaerobic reactors?
• Economic analysis of microaerobic removal of H2S from biogas in full-scale sludge digesters