Waste activated sludge (WAS) is the most yielding byproduct in municipal wastewater treatment plants (MWTPs), and its disposal poses secondary pollution that severely threatens the environment.

"Can we recover something potentially of higher value than biogas?" he asked. He and his team looked at short-chain volatile fatty acids (VFA), a common intermediate compound for many materials, ...

Volatile fatty acid separation from biowaste. Cattle manure is anaerobically digested in a bioreactor, and the resulting broth is processed with redox-mediated electrodialysis. The volatile fatty ...

Sterol regulatory element-binding proteins (SREBPs) play a crucial role in lipid biosynthesis. In a recent study, researchers identified a novel cleavage enzyme of SREBP-1c, a key player in fatty acid ...

Many sewage treatment plants are equipped to process waste using anaerobic digestion, in which the sewage sludge is held in an oxygen-free chamber to ferment and break down. As part of that ...