Sustainable Sludge Valorisation Technology for Closed-Loop Resource Recovery

人类排泄物是人类生存的必然结果。可持续和有效地处置废弃污泥对于一个有弹性、强健和可持续的社会是绝对必要的，特别是那些渴望循环经济的社会。拟议的研究旨在开发一种坚固、碳中性和成本效益高的工艺来处理污泥，并从其中回收有价值的材料和干净的水。开发的工艺可以改装成废水工业现有的基础设施，也可以作为一个独立的工艺。根据该提案开发的创新技术还可以帮助降低Spetic水池和其他污水收集基础设施不完善的农村地区污泥的合理成本。

Human waste is an unavoidable consequence of the human existence. The sustainable and efficient disposal of waste sludge is an absolute neccessity for a resilient, robust and sustainable society, especially those that aspire to a circular economy. The proposed research is to develop a robust, carbon-neutral and cost effective process to treat sludge and to recover valuable materials and clean water from it. The process developed can be retrofitted into existing infrustruture of the wastewater industry or serve as a stand-alone process. The innovative technology developed from the proposal can also help reduce logitical costs of sludge from spetic tanks and other rural areas where wastewater collection infrustructure is not well established.