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How decentralized treatment can contribute to the symbiosis between environmental protection and resource recovery

Sofía Estévez, Sara González‐García, Gumersindo Feijóo, Marı́a Teresa Moreira

The Science of The Total Environment · 2021

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Summary

Challenges associated with the sustainability of the water cycle pose new opportunities for resource recovery and greater environmental protection. While centralized wastewater treatment plants must evolve in their design and operation to adapt to a scenario of increasing demand for water, resources and energy, the decentralized approach emerges as an option to be considered in small communities or developing residential areas where bioenergy production can be improved through the recovery of organic matter in segregated streams or where the investment in the sewer network for connection to a centralized facility may be technologically or economically unfeasible. The main objective of this work is to evaluate the environmental and economic profile of a hybrid-decentralized configuration fo

Subject
Other / interdisciplinary
Source type
Peer-reviewed study
System type
Other
DOI
10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.151485
Catalogue ID
SNmp2b2w55-k4ne42
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