Circularity and Efficiency Assessment of Resource Recovery Solutions for The Water Treatment Sector

A. Bhambhani

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Circularity and Efficiency Assessment of Resource Recovery Solutions for The Water Treatment Sector

A. Bhambhani

Sanitary Engineering

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This thesis presents a collection of novel methods for the circularity and efficiency assessment of resource recovery solutions related to the water treatment sector. The resource recovery solutions pertain to the drinking water and wastewater treatment plants and include the recovery of nutrients, cellulose, treated wastewater, energy, sewage sludge, and calcite from drinking water softeners. The thesis also contains a new water-food-energy nexus framework which is used to compare the conventional centralized approach to wastewater treatment with a decentralized source separation one.

Original language	English
Qualification	Doctor of Philosophy
Awarding Institution	Delft University of Technology
Supervisors/Advisors	van der Hoek, J.P., Promotor Kapelan, Z., Promotor
Thesis sponsors	European Union's Horizon 2020 - Research and Innovation Framework Programme under grant agreement No 869283
Award date	20 Mar 2025
Print ISBNs	978-90-835161-6-5
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.4233/uuid:e0b1f6b1-040a-496c-9b01-6d2ff91ed9de
Publication status	Published - 2025

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Circularity
Sustainability
Water treatment
Resource recovery
Water-food-energy nexus

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Circularity and efficiency assessment of resource recovery solutions
Bhambhani, A. & Kapelan, Z., 2025, Boosting the Transition to Circular Economy in the Water Sector: Insights from EU Demonstration Case Studies: Current Developments in Biotechnology and Bioengineering. Elsevier, p. 133-156 24 p.
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