Sustainability strategies in municipal wastewater treatment

Derco, Ján (avtor), Gul’ašová, Patrícia (avtor), Legan, Maša (avtor), Zakhar, Ronald (avtor), Žgajnar Gotvajn, Andreja (avtor)

The European Parliament adopted a legislative resolution of 10 April 2024 on the proposal for a directive of the European Parliament and of the Council concerning urban wastewater treatment. The reduction in pollution in discharged treated wastewater in the parameters of BOD5, total nitrogen, and total phosphorus was emphasized. Based on these results, it stated that the impacts on the quality of lakes, rivers, and seas in the EU are visible and tangible. At the same time, it was emphasized that the sector of urban wastewater removal and treatment is responsible for 0.8% of total electricity consumption and about 0.86% of all greenhouse gas emissions in the entire EU. Almost a third of these emissions could be prevented by improving the treatment process, better use of sewage sludge, and increasing energy efficiency, as well as a higher rate of use of renewable resource technologies. It is also necessary to integrate treatment processes into the circular economy. Sludge management and water reuse are suboptimal as too many valuable resources are still being wasted. This article focuses on sustainable municipal wastewater treatment, innovative and new wastewater treatment processes and technologies (combined and hybrid processes, ANAMMOX, etc.) and their use in practice with the aim of increasing environmental and energy efficiency and reducing the carbon footprint. The research is focused on the possibilities of increasing the efficiency of energy processing of sludge, reuse of nitrogen and phosphorus, sludge, and reuse of treated wastewater.

• Jezik: Angleški jezik
• Ključne besede: efficiency, emerging pollutants, energy savings, greenhouse emissions, innovative and novel processes, macronutrients, microalgae, micropollutants, municipal wastewater treatment, sludge management, sustainability
• Vrsta gradiva: Članek v reviji
• Tipologija: 1.02 - Pregledni znanstveni članek
• Organizacija: FKKT - Fakulteta za kemijo in kemijsko tehnologijo
• Status publikacije: Objavljeno
• Različica publikacije: Objavljena publikacija
• Leto izida: 2024
• Št. strani: 40 str.
• Številčenje: Vol. 16, iss. 20, art. 9038
• PID: 20.500.12556/RUL-164326
• UDK: 628.31
• ISSN pri članku: 2071-1050
• DOI: 10.3390/su16209038
• COBISS.SI-ID: 212299779
• Datum objave v RUL: 22.10.2024

Gradivo je del revije

• Naslov: Sustainability
• Skrajšan naslov: Sustainability
• Založnik: MDPI
• ISSN: 2071-1050
• COBISS.SI-ID: 5324897

Licence

• Licenca: CC BY 4.0, Creative Commons Priznanje avtorstva 4.0 Mednarodna
• Povezava: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/deed.sl
• Opis: To je standardna licenca Creative Commons, ki daje uporabnikom največ možnosti za nadaljnjo uporabo dela, pri čemer morajo navesti avtorja.

Sekundarni jezik

• Jezik: Slovenski jezik
• Ključne besede: učinkovitost, nova onesnaževala, varčevanje z energijo, emisije toplogrednih plinov, inovativni in sodobni procesi, makrohranila, mikroalge, mikroonesnaževala, čiščenje komunalne odpadne vode, obdelava odpadnega blata, trajnost

Projekti

• Financer: ARIS - Javna agencija za znanstvenoraziskovalno in inovacijsko dejavnost Republike Slovenije
• Številka projekta: P2-0191
• Naslov: Kemijsko inženirstvo

• Financer: ARIS - Javna agencija za znanstvenoraziskovalno in inovacijsko dejavnost Republike Slovenije
• Številka projekta: I0-0022
• Naslov: Mreža raziskovalnih infrastrukturnih centrov Univerze v Ljubljani (MRIC UL)