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Andreas N. Angelakis, Giovanni De Feo, Pietro Laureano and Anastasia Zourou
The aim of this study is to present water and wastewater technologies used during the Minoan (ca. 3200?1100 BC) and Etruscan (ca. 800?100 BC) civilizations. The basic technologies considered are: water harvesting and distribution systems, cisterns, groun...
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Jorge Cardoso-Gonçalves and José Tentúgal-Valente
Optimizing the management of hydraulic infrastructures that support water supply, wastewater, and stormwater drainage can increase the efficiency of these systems. A framework for operational management of urban water systems allows for robust management...
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Karolina Migdal, Krzysztof Józwiakowski, Wojciech Czekala, Paulina Sliz, Jorge Manuel Rodrigues Tavares and Adelaide Almeida
The objective of this study was to model the operation of a vertical-flow constructed wetland (VF-CW) for domestic wastewater, using Monte-Carlo simulations and selected probability distributions of various random variables. The analysis was based on col...
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Tharaa M. Al-Zghoul, Zakaria Al-Qodah and Ahmad Al-Jamrah
The combination of the chemical coagulation-assisted electrocoagulation (CC-EC) process with a solar photovoltaic energy source has attracted increasing attention for the efficient removal of chemical oxygen demand (COD) from pharmaceutical wastewater. I...
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Wojciech Halicki and Michal Halicki
Natural Treatment Systems for Wastewater (NTSW) show great potential for economic, socially acceptable and environmentally friendly wastewater treatment, along with the renewal of water for its safe reuse. This article presents the reduction in nitrogen ...
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Emily S. Bailey and Mark D. Sobsey
As treated wastewater is increasingly used for agricultural purposes; questions remain about the microbiological quality of produce irrigated by these waters. This study conducted a quantitative microbial risk assessment (QMRA) using microbial data colle...
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Catarina Jorge, Maria do Céu Almeida and Dídia Covas
This paper presents and discusses the application of a novel energy balance scheme for assessing energy efficiency in wastewater systems. The energy balance is demonstrated with a Portuguese real-life case study, using mathematical modelling to estimate ...
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Alae Elabed, Redouan El khalfaouy, Saad Ibnsouda, Régine Basseguy, Soumya Elabed and Benjamin Erable
Effective and eco-friendly technologies are required for the treatment of tannery wastewater as its biological toxicity and large volume leads toground water pollution. Hydrophobic (unmodified carbon felt) and hydrophilic modified carbon felt with Linde ...
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Olga N. Tsolcha, Athanasia G. Tekerlekopoulou, Christos S. Akratos, George Aggelis, Savvas Genitsaris, Maria Moustaka-Gouni and Dimitrios V. Vayenas
The use of cyanobacteria in biological wastewater treatment technologies can greatly reduce operation costs by combining wastewater bioremediation and production of lipid suitable as biodiesel feedstock. In this work, an attached growth system was employ...
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José de Anda, Alberto López-López, Edgardo Villegas-García and Karla Valdivia-Aviña
This paper describes the preliminary monitoring results of an onsite pilot wastewater treatment plant consisting of a septic tank, an anaerobic up-flow filter, and a horizontal subsurface flow wetland system planted with Agapanthus africanus. The system ...
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Pedro N. Carvalho, Carlos A. Arias and Hans Brix
Constructed wetlands (CWs) are currently regarded as established eco-technologies to treat water pollution. Although considered near-natural systems, they are totally engineered solutions for which research has been actively developed over the past decad...
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Kyna Borel, Vaishali Swaminathan, Cherish Vance, Galen Roberts, Raghavan Srinivasan, Raghupathy Karthikeyan
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In the United States, pathogens are the leading cause for rivers and streams to exceed water quality standards. The Spatially Explicit Load Enrichment Calculation Tool (SELECT) was developed to estimate bacterially contaminated water bodies based on spat...
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Mukta Sapkota, Meenakshi Arora, Hector Malano, Magnus Moglia, Ashok Sharma, Biju George and Francis Pamminger
This paper presents a critical review of the physical impacts of decentralized water supply systems on existing centralized water infrastructures. This paper highlights the combination of centralized and decentralized systems, which is referred to as hyb...
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Jorge Curiel-Esparza, Marco A. Cuenca-Ruiz, Manuel Martin-Utrillas and Julian Canto-Perello
This paper presents an application of the Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP) by integrating a Delphi process for selecting the best sustainable disinfection technique for wastewater reuse projects. The proposed methodology provides project managers a too...
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Rajinikanth Rajagopal, Noori M. Cata Saady, Michel Torrijos, Joseph V. Thanikal and Yung-Tse Hung
This review article compiles the various advances made since 2008 in sustainable high-rate anaerobic technologies with emphasis on their performance enhancement when treating agro-food industrial wastewater. The review explores the generation and charact...
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Dominique Appling, Mussie Y. Habteselassie, David Radcliffe and James K. Bradshaw
On-site wastewater treatment systems (OWTS) work by first storing the wastewater in a septic tank before releasing it to soils for treatment that is generally effective and sustainable. However, it is not clear how the abundance of E. coli changes during...
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Md Sazadul Hasan, Joshua Trapp and Mengistu Geza
Population growth and the associated increase in the use of Onsite Wastewater Treatment Systems (OWTS) in the Black Hills have been a reason for interest in nitrate contamination within the public water supply over the past few years. The main concern fo...
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Yun Zhang, Feng Liu, Yidong Lin, Lei Sun, Xinru Guo, Shuai Yang and Jinlong He
This paper studies the effects of planting plants and coupled microbial fuel cells (MFCs) on the decontamination capacity and purification mechanism of constructed wetlands (CWs). Four systems were set, namely CW-without plants (A1), CW-with plants (A2),...
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Nicoleta-Oana Nicula, Eduard-Marius Lungulescu, Ioannis A. Ieropoulos, Gimi A. Rimbu and Ortansa Csutak
The presence of nutrients in aquaculture water bodies causes serious problems for aquatic ecosystems, requiring the development of technical solutions to reduce their amounts. This work identifies some bacterial strains that are able to reduce nutrient q...
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