Table of Contents
Table of Contents
Preface
Chapter 1. The Maturity Index for Biologically Treated Urban Sewage Sludge
L. El Fels and M. Hafidi (Laboratory of Ecology and Environment (L2E) (Unit Associated with the CNRST, URAC32), Faculty of Science Semlalia, Cadi Ayyad University, Marrakesh, Morocco, and others)
Chapter 2. The Use of Municipal Solid Waste and Sewage Sludge Co-Compost as a Means of Nutrient Recycling
Mingchu Zhang and Boris Henriquez (Department of Agriculture and Horticulture, School of Natural Resources and Extension, University of Alaska Fairbanks, AK, USA, and others)
Chapter 3. Heavy Metals: The Main Factor Limiting the Agricultural Use of Sewage Sludge
Silvana Pompeia Val-Moraes, Cristiane Moretto and Eliana Gertrudes de Macedo Lemos (Faculdade de Ciências Agrárias e Veterinária FCAV, Univ. Estadual Paulista UNESP, Jaboticabal, Departamento de Tecnologia, Jaboticabal, São Paulo, Brazil)
Chapter 4. Sludges of a Recirculating Aquaculture System: Characteristics and Reutilization
Yemall Alexander Maigual Enriquez, Amanda Alves Domingos Maia, Tsunao Matsumoto, Leandro Cardoso de Morais (Institute of Science and Technology, São Paulo State University (UNESP) ‘‘Júlio de Mesquita Filho”, São Paulo, Brazil, and others)
Chapter 5. Drying of Sewage Sludge: Fundamental Aspects, Modeling and Challenges
Lyes Bennamoun and Jie Li (Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of New Brunswick, Canada, and others)
Chapter 6. Production of Renewable Solid Fuel from Sewage Sludge by Hydrothermal Carbonization
Eric Danso-Boateng, Gilbert Shama and Richard G. Holdich (Department of Chemical Engineering, Loughborough University, Loughborough, Leicestershire, UK)
Chapter 7. Anaerobic Digestion of Wastewater Produced from Hydrothermal Carbonisation of Sewage Sludge
Eric Danso-Boateng and Eleni Nyktari (Department of Chemical Engineering, Loughborough University, Leicestershire, UK)
Chapter 8. Sewage Sludge Gasification
Virginia Pérez López (Thermal Conversion Process Unit. Energy Department, CEDER – CIEMAT, Lubia (Soria) – Spain)
Chapter 9. Gasification of Sewage Sludge for Biofuel Production: The Effect of Thermochemical Pre-Processing
Chao Gai and Zhengang Liu (Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, PR China)
Chapter 10. Sewage Sludge Ash as a New Raw Material for the Synthesis of Zeolites
Jolanta Latosińska (Kielce University of Technology, Faculty of Environmental, Geomatic and Energy Engineering, Poland)
About the Editor
Index