Publications by authors named "Runfeng Liao"

Article Synopsis
  • Scientists made special materials from fruit peels and vegetable waste to help treat dirty water from landfills more effectively.
  • These materials helped remove more harmful chemicals and produced a lot more methane gas, which can be used for energy.
  • The new materials also helped good bacteria grow better, which is important for breaking down waste and reducing greenhouse gases.
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In this study, an anaerobic moving bed biofilm reactor (AnMBBR) was developed for simultaneous methanogenesis and denitrification (SMD) to treat high-strength landfill leachate for the first time. A novel strategy using biosurfactant to ameliorate the inhibition of landfill leachate on the SMD performance was proposed and the underlying mechanisms were explored comprehensively. With the help of rhamnolipids, the chemical oxygen demand (COD) removal efficiency of landfill leachate was improved from 86.

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Different mass ratio iron (Fe)-loaded biochars (FeBCs) were prepared from food waste and used in the three-dimensional biofilm-electrode systems (3D-BES) as particular electrodes for landfill leachate treatment. Compared to the unmodified biochar (BC), specific surface area of Fe-loaded biochars (FeBC-3 with a Fe: biochar of 0.2:1) increased from 63.

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An integrated process of electrochemical pre-treatment with carrier-based membrane bioreactor (MBR) was constructed for fresh leachate from waste transfer stations with high organic and NH-N content. Results showed that within a hydraulic retention time 40 h, the removal efficiencies of chemical oxygen demand (COD), NH-N, suspended solids (SS) and total phosphorus (TP) were over 98.5%, 91.

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The municipal solid waste (MSW) with high water content can be pre-treated by the mechanical dewatering technology to significantly decrease the leachate generation in sequential landfill treatment or to improve the efficiency for solid waste incineration, which has attracted great concerns recently. However, the generated mechanical dewatering wastewater (MDW) containing high organics and nitrogenous content has been one of the big challenges for the sustainable treatment of MSW. In this study, a pilot-scale integrated system composed of physiochemical pretreatment, anaerobic sequencing batch reactor (ASBR), partial nitrification SBR (PN-SBR), denitrification SBR (DN-SBR), and UV/O advanced oxidation process, with a capacity of 1.

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Biochar prepared from pineapple peel was facially combined with polyurethane sponges for the first time to form homogeneous biocompatible biocarriers, which can enhance denitrification performance in an anoxic MBBR. The experiments showed that a higher NO-N removal efficiency (96.24 ± 1.

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