• A review of micropollutant sources, discharge regulations and their fates with biological wastewater treatment 

      Rummelhoff, Erik Kristoffer Sørum (Master thesis, 2022)
      Due to increased human activities in chemical production, use of pharmaceuticals and plastics, municipal wastewater is being contaminated when these byproducts are discharged into the wastewater streams. Recently, ...
    • Anaerobic degradation of industrial carbon capture reclaimer MEA waste 

      Wang, Shuai (Doctoral dissertations at TUC;2014:5, Doctoral thesis; Peer reviewed, 2014-04-04)
      Global warming and its impacts are serious and challenging international problems (Vitousek, 1994). Increasing fossil fuel consumption results in rising atmospheric greenhouse gas levels which enhances global warming ...
    • Biofilm in Moving Bed Biofilm Process for Wastewater Treatment 

      Wang, Shuai; Parajuli, Sudeep; Sivalingam, Vasan; Bakke, Rune (Chapter, 2019)
      A brief introduction of the long history of biofilm-based wastewater treatment is given together with basics of biofilm behavior and mechanisms in removal and transformation of pollutants. Moving bed biofilm reactor (MBBR) ...
    • Chemical equilibrium model to investigate scaling in moving bed biofilm reactors (MBBR) 

      Sivalingam, Vasan; Ibrahim, Osama M.; Kukankov, Sergey; Omodara, Babafemi; Janka, Eshetu; Wang, Shuai; Dinamarca, Carlos; Haugen, Hildegunn Hegna; Bakke, Rune (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)
      Moving bed biofilm reactor (MBBR) is a robust, flexible and compact technology for treatment of medium to high strength wastewater. However, while treating with high concentration of ammonium, phosphorus and metal ions, ...
    • Detoxifying CO2 Capture Reclaimer Waste by Anaerobic Digestion 

      Wang, Shuai; Hovland, Jon; Brooks, Steven (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2013-10-13)
      The decrease in toxicity of carbon capture reclaimer monoethanolamine (MEA) waste (MEAw) during anaerobic degradation of such waste together with easily degradable organics was investigated. Samples were collected from a ...
    • Effect of Intermittent Aeration in a Hybrid Vertical Anaerobic Biofilm Reactor (HyVAB) for Reject Water Treatment 

      Sivalingam, Vasan; Dinamarca, Carlos; Wakjera, Eshetu Janka; Kukankov, Sergey; Wang, Shuai; Bakke, Rune (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)
      Water from anaerobic sludge dewatering (reject water that is recycled to the inlet main process treatment) from the Knarrdalstrand municipal wastewater treatment plant in Porsgrunn, Norway, contains 2.4 g/L of total chemical ...
    • Efficiency of the anaerobic digestion of amine wastes 

      Wang, Shuai; Hovland, Jon; Bakke, Rune (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2013-08-04)
      Laboratory-scale anaerobic degradation of monoethanolamine waste (MEAw) with co-substrate organics was conducted at roomtemperature and organic loading rates from 0.19 to 5.03 kg COD/m3 day for 486 days in a hybrid digester. ...
    • Modeling and simulation of lab-scale anaerobic co-digestion of MEA waste 

      Wang, Shuai; Hovland, Jon; Bakke, Rune (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2014)
      Anaerobic digestion model No.1 (ADM1) was applied and expanded in this study to model and simulate anaerobic digestion (AD) of an industrial carbon capture reclaimer MEA (monoethanolamine) waste (MEAw) together with easily ...
    • Modeling temperature effects in anaerobic digestion of domestic wastewater 

      Lohani, Sunil Prasad; Wang, Shuai; Bergland, Wenche Hennie; Khanal, Sanjay Nath; Bakke, Rune (Journal article, 2018)
      A combination of septic tank (ST) and up-flow anaerobic sludge blanket (UASB) as treatment for domestic wastewater was modeled with the anaerobic digestion model 1 (ADM1). The model was used to visualize the influence of ...
    • Treatment of Metformin-Containing Wastewater by a Hybrid Vertical Anaerobic Biofilm-Reactor (HyVAB) 

      Wakjera, Eshetu Janka; Carvajal Rodriguez, Diego Armando; Wang, Shuai; Bakke, Rune; Saldias Dinamarca, Carlos Antonio (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)
      Several series of batch and continuous experiments were performed to investigate the removal of metformin and other contaminants from two wastewaters: wastewater I (WWI) containing 4 mg/L metformin and wastewater II (WWII) ...