Technologies for the wastewater circular economy – A review

Soo, A; Kim, J; Shon, HK

Technologies for the wastewater circular economy – A review

Soo, A Kim, J Shon, HK

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Citation:: Desalination and Water Treatment, 2024, 317
Issue Date:: 2024-01-01

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dc.contributor.author	Soo, A
dc.contributor.author	Kim, J
dc.contributor.author	Shon, HK
dc.date.accessioned	2025-01-07T03:11:53Z
dc.date.available	2025-01-07T03:11:53Z
dc.date.issued	2024-01-01
dc.identifier.citation	Desalination and Water Treatment, 2024, 317
dc.identifier.issn	1944-3994
dc.identifier.issn	1944-3986
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10453/183071
dc.description.abstract	Throughout the years, experiments with membrane, electrochemical, biological and thermal technologies have been explored to recover resources from a range of wastewaters such as municipal, industrial, urine and sewage sludge. However, multiple resource recoveries at the commercial and pilot scale are still lacking, instead, focusing on specialising on the recovery of a narrow set of products. Herein, a divergence of resource recovery across municipal and industrial wastewater streams – nutrients and energy for municipal; heavy metals and water recovery for industrial streams; with material recovery seen across both – was observed through literature review. This review aims to provide a perspective for academic and professionals alike on the current technologies available and their emerging trends – and aims to tie in these technologies to wastewater circular economics. Consequently, high sludge and wastewater transportation costs may pressure wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) to adopt value-adding, resource recovery technologies onsite – transforming centralised and decentralised WWTPs into wastewater resources recovery facilities.
dc.language	English
dc.publisher	ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC
dc.relation	http://purl.org/au-research/grants/arc/IH210100001
dc.relation.ispartof	Desalination and Water Treatment
dc.relation.isbasedon	10.1016/j.dwt.2024.100205
dc.rights	info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
dc.subject	0904 Chemical Engineering, 0905 Civil Engineering, 0907 Environmental Engineering
dc.subject.classification	4004 Chemical engineering
dc.subject.classification	4005 Civil engineering
dc.subject.classification	4011 Environmental engineering
dc.title	Technologies for the wastewater circular economy – A review
dc.type	Journal Article
utslib.citation.volume	317
utslib.for	0904 Chemical Engineering
utslib.for	0905 Civil Engineering
utslib.for	0907 Environmental Engineering
pubs.organisational-group	University of Technology Sydney
pubs.organisational-group	University of Technology Sydney/Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology
pubs.organisational-group	University of Technology Sydney/Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology/School of Civil and Environmental Engineering
pubs.organisational-group	University of Technology Sydney/UTS Groups
pubs.organisational-group	University of Technology Sydney/UTS Groups/Centre for Technology in Water and Wastewater (CTWW)
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dc.rights.license	This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0). To view a copy of this license, visit https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.date.updated	2025-01-07T03:11:50Z
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pubs.volume	317

Abstract:

Throughout the years, experiments with membrane, electrochemical, biological and thermal technologies have been explored to recover resources from a range of wastewaters such as municipal, industrial, urine and sewage sludge. However, multiple resource recoveries at the commercial and pilot scale are still lacking, instead, focusing on specialising on the recovery of a narrow set of products. Herein, a divergence of resource recovery across municipal and industrial wastewater streams – nutrients and energy for municipal; heavy metals and water recovery for industrial streams; with material recovery seen across both – was observed through literature review. This review aims to provide a perspective for academic and professionals alike on the current technologies available and their emerging trends – and aims to tie in these technologies to wastewater circular economics. Consequently, high sludge and wastewater transportation costs may pressure wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) to adopt value-adding, resource recovery technologies onsite – transforming centralised and decentralised WWTPs into wastewater resources recovery facilities.

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