Boosting the Transition to Circular Economy in the Water Sector: Insights from EU Demonstration Case Studies
Current Developments in Biotechnology and Bioengineering
- 1st Edition - June 1, 2025
- Editors: Giorgio Mannina, Ashok Pandey
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 3 0 2 5 7 - 2
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 3 0 2 5 8 - 9
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Request a sales quoteBoosting the Transition to Circular Economy in the Water Sector: Insights from EU Demonstration Case Studies, Current Developments in Biotechnology and Bioengineering provides a holistic overview of the current status of recent progress in resource recovery from wastewater treatment, including fundamental aspects and development of processes, as well as the needs of further research and industrialization. The book gives special emphasis and discussion on green technologies for resource recovery from wastewater and bottlenecks with regard to their applications. From a future green bioprocess standpoint, biogas production and waste minimization, opportunities, future perspectives, and research needs are also discussed.
The book presents insights gained recent EU projects reporting solutions, technologies, tools and strategies to overcome the existing barriers hampering the circular economy transition process. The book combines practical and theoretical knowledge of circular economy of water sector thus being useful for both researchers, professionals and actors making local decisions.
- Covers aspects of resource recovery technologies and research gaps in wastewater treatment
- Focuses on different membrane bioreactor (MBR) configurations and systems/hybrid systems for treating wastewater
- Provides state-of-the-art technologies, advantages, and challenges, along with strategies to overcome limitations in the implementation of watersmart solutions
- Includes technology to manage sewage sludge and foster solutions for recovering in a circular economy context
2. Resource recovery from waste activated sludge by polyhydroxyalkanoate (PHA) production
3. Reducing the sewage sludge production by applying Oxic Settling Anaerobic (OSA) and intermittent aeration process
4. Slow-release fertilizers by biochar and zeolite enriched by treated wastewater for nutrient recovery
5. Water reuse for greening urban areas: insights gained from the Czech Republic demonstration case study
6. Fuel production from sewage sludge: insights from Ghana demonstration case study
7. Circularity and Efficiency Assessment of Resource Recovery Solutions
8. Transition to circular economy: the case study of Corleone
9. Roadmap development and application for wider uptake of water smart solutions
10. Governance assessment tool and business models for industrial symbiosis solutions: an Italian case study
11. Assessing water smartness and sustainability in the case study of Corleone
12. Scenario analysis towards the implementation of a roadmap for transitioning to circular economy
- No. of pages: 300
- Language: English
- Edition: 1
- Published: June 1, 2025
- Imprint: Elsevier
- Paperback ISBN: 9780443302572
- eBook ISBN: 9780443302589
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Giorgio Mannina
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Ashok Pandey
Professor Ashok Pandey is currently Executive Director, Centre for Energy and Environmental Sustainability-India, Lucknow. He is HSBS National Innovation Chair (Biotechnology) and is/has been Visiting/Distinguished Professor in many countries. His major research and technological development interests are industrial & environmental biotechnology and energy biosciences, focusing on biomass to biofuels & chemicals, waste to wealth & energy, etc.