Sustainable Sludge Valorisation Technology for Closed-Loop Resource Recovery

人类的排泄物是人类生存不可避免的结果。废渣的可持续和高效处理对于一个有弹性、强大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。拟议的研究是开发一种强大的、碳中和的、成本有效的工艺来处理污泥，并从中回收有价值的物质和清洁的水。所开发的工艺可以改造到废水工业的现有基础设施中，或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减少污水收集基础设施不完善的特殊池和其他农村地区污泥的物流成本。

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.