Stefano Freguia

Dioctyl phthalate enhances volatile fatty acids production from sludge anaerobic fermentation: Insights of electron transport and metabolic functions.

Feiyi Yuan, Yi Sun, Xiupeng Jiang, Tao Liu, Bo Kang, Stefano Freguia, Leiyu Feng, Yinguang Chen

Journal article  |  2023  |  Sci Total Environ

As one of the most widely used phthalate plasticizers, dioctyl phthalate (DOP) has been detected in wastewater and accumulates in ..

Electro-fermentation: Sustainable bioproductions steered by electricity.

Bernardino Virdis, Robert D Hoelzle, Angela Marchetti, Santiago T Boto, Miriam A Rosenbaum, Ramiro Blasco-Gómez, Sebastià Puig, Stefano Freguia, Marianna Villano

Journal article  |  2022  |  Biotechnol Adv

The market of biobased products obtainable via fermentation processes has steadily increased over the past few years, driven by th..

Urea hydrolysis and long-term storage of source-separated urine for reuse as fertiliser is insufficient for the removal of anthropogenic micropollutants.

Juliette Monetti, Ludwika Nieradzik, Stefano Freguia, Phil M Choi, Jake W O'Brien, Kevin V Thomas, Pablo Ledezma

Journal article  |  2022  |  Water Res

Human and animal source-separated urine, stored and allowed to naturally hydrolyse (the bio-catalysed transformation of urea to am..

Impact of source-separation of urine on treatment capacity, process design, and capital expenditure of a decentralised wastewater treatment plant.

Umakant Badeti, Jiaxi Jiang, Abdulaziz Almuntashiri, Nirenkumar Pathak, Ugyen Dorji, Federico Volpin, Stefano Freguia, Wei Lun Ang, Amit Chanan, Sanjay Kumarasingham, Ho Kyong Shon, Sherub Phuntsho

Journal article  |  2022  |  Chemosphere

In this study, the impact of urine diversion on the treatment capacity, treatment process, and capital costs of a decentralised wa..

Modelling and techno-economic assessment of (bio)electrochemical nitrogen removal and recovery from reject water at full WWTP scale

Veera Koskue, Veli-Pekka Pyrhonen, Stefano Freguia, Pablo Ledezma, Marika Kokko

Journal article  |  2022  |  JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT

At conventional wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs), reject waters originating from the dewatering of anaerobically digested sludg..

Electrochemical oxidation processes for PFAS removal from contaminated water and wastewater: fundamentals, gaps and opportunities towards practical implementation.

Mersabel Veciana, Jennifer Bräunig, Ali Farhat, Marie-Laure Pype, Stefano Freguia, Gilda Carvalho, Jürg Keller, Pablo Ledezma

Journal article  |  2022  |  J Hazard Mater

Electrochemical oxidation (EO) is emerging as one of the most promising methods for the degradation of recalcitrant per- and poly-..

Coke-oven wastewater treatment in a dual-chamber microbial fuel cell with thiocyanatedegrading biofilm enriched at the air cathode

K Yamada, T Fukushima, S Freguia

Journal article  |  2022  |  Water Science and Technology

Coke-oven wastewater is usually treated with the activated sludge process, which requires large amounts of electrical energy for a..

Wastewater fertigation in agriculture: Issues and opportunities for improved water management and circular economy.

Matia Mainardis, Daniele Cecconet, Alessandro Moretti, Arianna Callegari, Daniele Goi, Stefano Freguia, Andrea G Capodaglio

Journal article  |  2022  |  Environ Pollut

Water shortages are an issue of growing worldwide concern. Irrigated agriculture accounts for about 70% of total freshwater withdr..

Fate of pharmaceuticals and PFASs during the electrochemical generation of a nitrogen-rich nutrient product from real reject water

Veera Koskue, Juliette Monetti, Natascha Rossi, Ludwika Nieradzik, Stefano Freguia, Marika Kokko, Pablo Ledezma

Journal article  |  2022  |  JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL CHEMICAL ENGINEERING

Recycling vital macronutrients, such as nitrogen, from wastewaters back to fertiliser use is becoming essential to ensure sustaina..

A review of microscopic cell imaging and neural network recognition for synergistic cyanobacteria identification and enumeration.

Liam Vaughan, Arash Zamyadi, Suraj Ajjampur, Husein Almutaram, Stefano Freguia

Journal article  |  2022  |  Anal Sci

Real-time cyanobacteria/algal monitoring is a valuable tool for early detection of harmful algal blooms, water treatment efficacy ..