Utilization of sewage sludge in EU application of old and new methods—A review
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...Traditional methods of disposal (land application, incineration, and landfilling) pose significant threats to environmental quality and human health [1]....
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...Managing sewage sludge is one of the most challenging and urgent problems facing an increasingly urban global population [1]....
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...Over the last decades, a great variety of extraction schemes, both simple and sequential have been developed and, although some methods have been widely used [12,13] none has been unreservedly accepted by the scientific community....
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...Multiple hearth and fluidized bed furnaces are the most popular and the latter is becoming widely applied [24]....
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...Analysis has shown that about 78–98% of Cd, Cr, Cu, Ni, Pb and Zn present in the sewage sludge are retained in the ash, whereas up to 98% of the Hg may be released into the atmosphere with the flue gas [24]....
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...The whole process is occurring in two distinctive regimes [24]:...
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