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Waste activated sludge (WAS) conditioning is crucial for enhancing sludge dewaterability and effectively reducing the management cost. The feasibility of bio-enzymes with Fe2+-activated advanced oxidation processes (AOPs) for WAS conditioning was investigated in this study. Two representative bio-enzymes, α-amylase and neutral protease, and two typical AOPs, the Fenton system and Fe2+/Ca(ClO)2 system, were chosen. The medical dosages of AOPs were first optimized by single-factor experiments. On...

Abstract A new simulation-based strategy for optimal design of a renewable cooling and heating system that includes a desiccant wheel, a photovoltaic/thermal-solar air collector (PV/T-SAC) and a thermal storage unit using phase change material (PCM) is presented in this study. The strategy is formulated by integrating an integer-based genetic algorithm (IGA) with the response surface method (RSM), in order to tackle the system nonlinearity with manageable computational costs. The PV/T-SAC is us...

Liquid desiccant cooling (LDC) systems are being widely considered as a promising alternative for energy savings and the regeneration is one of the most significant processes of the LDC systems. This paper presents a direct contact membrane distillation (DCMD) regenerator for liquid desiccants regeneration of LDC systems and fresh water production simultaneously. The novelty of this study is to use the response surface method to establish models to predict the DCMD regeneration performance with ...