Advanced Biological, Physical, and Chemical Treatment of Waste Activated Sludge

This book includes new processes to capture organics in raw sewage using the AB process and treating waste activated sludge using biological, physical, mechanical, chemical methods to increase biogas production in the subsequent anaerobic digester.

Dr. Antoine Trzcinski received his PhD from the chemical engineering Department of Imperial College London in the United Kingdom. He developed a novel process for producing biogas from municipal solid waste and for the treatment of landfill leachate. As a senior Research fellow in the Nanyang Environment & Water Research Institute he continued working on solid waste treatment such as waste activated sludge and wastewater treatment in anaerobic membrane bioreactors. He developed novel combinations of pre-treatments of waste activated sludge that result in greater biogas production. He was granted three patents from this work in collaboration with the Public Utilities Board of Singapore. His research interests include fouling mitigation in membrane bioreactors, characterization of soluble microbial products, identification of bacterial and archaeal strains, pharmaceutical and antibiotics removal from wastewater, fate of nanoparticles in the environment and bioelectro stimulation of microbes to improve bioprocesses through interspecies electron transfer (IET). In 2016, He joined the University of Southern Queensland as lecturer and teaches Environmental engineering, Environmental Engineering Practice, Hydraulics, Solid and Liquid Waste Treatment and Applied Chemistry and Microbiology as well as continuing his research in these fields.

Chapter One: Conventional Waste Activated Sludge Process, Chapter Two: Biological Treatment of Sludge: Application of the AB Process to Municipal Wastewater, Chapter Three: Biological Treatment of Sludge: Application of the AB process to Industrial Wastewater, Chapter Four: Thermal/Biological Treatment of Sludge, Chapter Five: Thermal/Alkaline Treatment of Sludge, Chapter Six: Mechanical Treatment of Sludge, Chapter Seven: Chemical Treatment of Sludge, Chapter Eight: Physical Treatment of Sludge: Application of Utlrasound, Chapter Nine: Physico-chemical Treatment: Application of Alkaline and Ultrasonic Pre-treatment of Sewage Sludge, Chapter Ten: Physico-chemical Treatment: Application of Ozone and Ultrasonic Pre-treatment of Sewage Sludge, Chapter Eleven: Physico-chemical Treatment: Application of Ozone, Ultrasonic, and Alkaline Post-treatment of Sewage Sludge, Chapter Twelve: Physio-chemical Treatment: Application of Ozone, Ultrasonic and Alkaline Post-Treatment of Sewage Sludge