Boosting the Transition to Circular Economy in the Water Sector: Insights from EU Demonstration Case Studies

Boosting 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