Wastewater
Digital Twins and AI in Water Treatment: What They Actually Do and Where They're Headed
The Stadtwerke Trier wastewater plant in Germany deployed Xylem Vue's AI-powered digital twin and cut aeration energy consumption by 20%, saving approximately 200,000 kWh per year while maintaining full compliance with effluent limits[4]. That ...
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Read article →Thermal hydrolysis on the edge of thermophilic anaerobic digestion: a pilot-scale operation experience | Environmental Science: Water Research & Technology | The Royal Society of Chemistry
This approach allows a 40–60% reduction in digester volume, improves sludge dewaterability, and supports energy-efficient operation, offering a scalable solution for wastewater treatment plants facing capacity, cost, and environmental constraints.
added Aug 29, 2026
Read article →Data Analysis, Integration, and Interpretation for Endemic Pathogens - Increasing the Utility of Wastewater-based Disease Surveillance for Public Health Action - NCBI Bookshelf
Groups therefore sought approaches ... in the measurements. Normalization is a process of adjusting the measured wastewater concentrations to account for some of the underlying variables that impact inter- and intra-sewershed comparisons....
added Aug 27, 2026
Read article →Membrane aerated biological reactors (MABRs) to enhance the biological treatment process at a WWTP - ScienceDirect
Microbial analysis also confirmed the stable biofilm-mediated nitrification–denitrification under carbon-limited conditions. Overall, the study provides quantitative insight into the energy–performance–environment nexus of hybrid MABR systems and establishes a framework for low-carbon operation and …
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Read article →Supercritical Water Oxidation as an Innovative Technology for PFAS Destruction - PMC
Each of the three SCWO systems achieved greater than 99% destruction efficiency of ΣPFAS from dilute AFFF, including 99% destruction of PFOS and PFOA in the liquid phase. The effluent concentrations were still higher than the EPA’s drinking water health advisory limit (i.e., 0.070 μg/L) ...
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Read article →Phosphorus recovery as struvite from digested sludge – experience from the full scale - ScienceDirect
The struvite plant started as a pilot plant in 2013, and is now a fully functional full scale plant that recovers 5% of the incoming phosphorus to the WWTP. The struvite process improves dewaterability.
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Read article →Full-scale aerobic granular sludge for municipal wastewater treatment – granule formation, microbial succession, and process performance - Environmental Science: Water Research & Technology (RSC Publishing) DOI:10.1039/D2EW00653G
Aerobic granular sludge (AGS) is ... small footprint, and low energy usage.1,2 For example, full-scale AGS plants have been reported to have 25–75% reduced footprints and 20–50% reduced energy usage compared to similarly loaded conventional activated sludge (CAS) plants.2,3 ...
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Read article →Toward Mainstream Anammox by Integrating Sidestream Treatment | Environmental Science & Technology
Deammonification (partial nitritation-anammox) process is a favorable and innovative process, for treatment of nitrogen-rich wastewater due to decreased oxygen and carbon requirements at very high nitrogen loadings.
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Read article →DESIGN MANUAL: ODOR AND CORROSION CONTROL IN SANITARY SEWERAGE SYSTEMS AND TREATMENT PLANTS | Science Inventory | US EPA
Yet there are wastewater treatment facilities that are free from this stigma and techniques to prevent odor nuisances are available to those committed to construct odor-free treatment works. A major cause of odors in wastewater treatment systems is hydrogen sulfide (H2S), a gas detectable in ...
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