Source Separation and Decentralization for Wastewater Management

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Source Separation and Decentralization for Wastewater Management
Editor(s): Tove A. Larsen, Kai M. Udert and Judit Lienert
Publication Date: 15 Jan 2013 • ISBN: 9781843393481
Pages: 520 • Hardback

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Is sewer-based wastewater treatment really the optimal technical solution in urban water management? This paradigm is increasingly being questioned. Growing water scarcity and the insight that water will be an important limiting factor for the quality of urban life are main drivers for new approaches in wastewater management. Source Separation and Decentralization for Wastewater Management sets up a comprehensive view of the resources involved in urban water management. It explores the potential of source separation and decentralization to provide viable alternatives to sewer-based urban water management.

During the 1990s, several research groups started working on source-separating technologies for wastewater treatment. Source separation was not new, but had only been propagated as a cheap and environmentally friendly technology for the poor. The novelty was the discussion whether source separation could be a sustainable alternative to existing end-of-pipe systems, even in urban areas and industrialized countries.

Since then, sustainable resource management and many different source-separating technologies have been investigated. The theoretical framework and also possible technologies have now developed to a more mature state. At the same time, many interesting technologies to process combined or concentrated wastewaters have evolved, which are equally suited for the treatment of source-separated domestic wastewater.

The book presents a comprehensive view of the state of the art of source separation and decentralization. It discusses the technical possibilities and practical experience with source separation in different countries around the world. The area is in rapid development, but many of the fundamental insights presented in this book will stay valid.

Source Separation and Decentralization for Wastewater Management is intended for all professionals and researchers interested in wastewater management, whether or not they are familiar with source separation.

Contributors
Prof. M. Bruce Beck, Warnell School of Forest Resources, University of Georgia
Prof. Markus Boller, Eawag
Dr. Dana Cordell, Institute for Sustainable Futures, University of Technology
Prof. Jan Willem Erisman, Biomass, Coal and Environmental research, Energy Research Centre of the Netherlands
Dr. Barbara Evans, Senior Lecturer University of Leeds
Prof. Malin Falkenmark, Stockholm International Water Institute, SIWA
Dr. Eran Friedler, Faculty of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Israel Institute of Technology
Prof. Ted Gardner, CSIRO, Land and Water
Dr. Bruce Jefferson, Center for Water Science, Cranfield University
Prof. Håkan Jönsson, Department of Energy and Technology, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
Prof. Isik Kabdasli, İstanbul Technical University
Prof. Jürg Keller, Advanced Water Management Centre, The University of Queensland
Prof. Klaus Kümmerer, Faculty for Sustainability, Leuphana University Lüneburg
Tove A. Larsen, Eawag, SWW
Prof. Greg Leslie, University of New South Wales
Judit Lienert, Eawag, Siam
Prof. Jörg Londong, Department Urban Water Management and Sanitation, Bauhaus Universität Weimar
Dr. Christoph Lüthi, Eawag
Dr. Max Maurer, Eawag
Prof. Gustaf Olsson, IEA Industrial Electrical Engineering and Automation, Lund University
Prof. Ralf Otterpohl, Technical University  Hamburg-Harburg
Dr. Bert Palsma, STOWA
Prof. Bruce Rittmann, The Biodesign Institute, Arizona State University
Prof. Hansruedi Siegrist, Eawag
Prof. Thor-Axel Stenström, Stockholm Environment Institute
Prof. George Tchobanoglous, University of California, Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering
Elizabeth Tilley, Eawag
Prof. Bernhard Truffer, Eawag
Kai M. Udert, Eawag, ENG
Prof. Willy Verstraete, Ghent University
Dr. Björn Vinneras, Department of Energy and Technology, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
Prof. Urs von Gunten, Eawag
Prof. Peter Wilderer, Institute for Advanced Studies on Sustainability
Dr. Grietje Zeeman, Sub-department of Environmental Technology, Wageningen University

Table of Contents

Part 1:  The advantages of source separation and decentralization: Energy, Nutrients (N and P), Water scarcity, Micropollutants, Costs of infrastructure, Decentralization in industrialized countries, Sanitation in developing countries.

Part 2:  The challenges of source separation and decentralization: Implementation in cities, Hygiene, Recycling of nutrients to agriculture, Potential of control and monitoring, Acceptance, Market success.

Part 3:  Potential technologies for source separation: Conceptualizing sanitation systems, Wastewater composition, Treatment of the solid fraction, Aerobic elimination of organics and pathogens, Advanced nitrogen removal, Anaerobic treatment, Electrochemical systems, Transfer into the gas phase, Transfer into the solid phase, Membrane processes, Advanced oxidation, Up-concentration of combined wastewater as an alternative to source separation.

Part 4:  The international experience: Practical experience with source separation and decentralization in Sweden, Germany, Switzerland, Australia, The Netherlands, and in Developing countries.

Part 5:  The paradigm shift. Why question the prevailing paradigm of wastewater management? How to spur innovation?