Department of Civil Engineering, Chung Yuan Christian University, Taoyuan, 32023, Taiwan; Center for Environmental Risk Management, Chung Yuan Christian University, Taoyuan, 32023, Taiwan.
Department of Environmental Engineering, Chung Yuan Christian University, Taoyuan, 32023, Taiwan; Center for Environmental Risk Management, Chung Yuan Christian University, Taoyuan, 32023, Taiwan.
J Environ Manage. 2024 Aug;366:121855. doi: 10.1016/j.jenvman.2024.121855. Epub 2024 Jul 17.
Anaerobic membrane bioreactor (AnMBR) offer promise in municipal wastewater treatment, with potential benefits including high-quality effluent, energy recovery, sludge reduction, and mitigating greenhouse gas emissions. However, AnMBR face hurdles like membrane fouling, low energy recovery, etc. In light of net-zero carbon target and circular economy strategy, this work sought to evaluate novel AnMBR configurations, focusing on performance, fouling mitigation, net-energy generation, and nutrients-enhancing integrated configurations, such as forward osmosis (FO), membrane distillation (MD), bioelectrochemical systems (BES), membrane photobioreactor (MPBR), and partial nitrification-anammox (PN/A). In addition, we highlight the essential role of AnMBR in advancing the circular economy and propose ideas for the water-energy-climate nexus. While AnMBR has made significant progress, challenges, such as fouling and cost-effectiveness persist. Overall, the use of novel configurations and energy recovery strategies can further improve the sustainability and efficiency of AnMBR systems, making them a promising technology for future sustainable municipal wastewater treatment.
厌氧膜生物反应器（AnMBR）在城市污水处理方面具有广阔的应用前景，其潜在优势包括高质量的出水、能源回收、减少污泥产生和减少温室气体排放等。然而，AnMBR 也面临着一些挑战，如膜污染、能源回收效率低等。针对净零碳目标和循环经济战略，本研究旨在评估新型 AnMBR 配置，重点关注性能、污染缓解、净能源生成以及强化营养物去除的集成配置，如正向渗透（FO）、膜蒸馏（MD）、生物电化学系统（BES）、膜光生物反应器（MPBR）和部分硝化-厌氧氨氧化（PN/A）。此外，我们还强调了 AnMBR 在推进循环经济方面的重要作用，并提出了水-能源-气候关系的一些思路。尽管 AnMBR 已经取得了显著的进展，但仍存在一些挑战，如污染和成本效益等问题。总体而言，新型配置和能源回收策略的应用可以进一步提高 AnMBR 系统的可持续性和效率，使其成为未来可持续城市污水处理的一项有前途的技术。
