Enhancing the removal of pharmaceuticals in biological wastewater treatment: Is MBBR the answer?

Fabio Polesel , Barth F. Smets , Benedek G. Plósz , Kai Bester
International Conference on Emerging Contaminants (EmCon2016) and Micropollutants (WiOW2016) in the Environment

2016
Microbial biodiversity enhances micropollutants biotransformation in Moving Bed Biofilm Reactors (MBBR) with controlled biofilm thickness

Fabio Polesel , Barth F. Smets , Benedek G. Plósz , Henrik Rasmus Andersen
International Conference on Emerging Contaminants (EmCon2016) and Micropollutants (WiOW2016) in the Environment

2016
Removal of micropollutants in Moving Bed Biofilm reactors (MBBRs):Microbial‐diversity‐and‐functional‐relationships

Barth F. Smets , Benedek G. Plósz , Elena Torresi , Magnus Christensson
Department of Environmental Engineering, Technical University of Denmark (DTU)

3
2017
Removal of primary and secondary trace organic substrates in aerobic and anaerobic sewer biofilm

Fabio Polesel , Benedek G. Plósz , Pedram Ramin , Elena Torresi
MEWE and biofilms IWA specialist conference

2016
Biodiversity positively associates with biofilm thickness in Moving Bed Biofilm Reactors (MBBRs) – implications on micropollutant removal and nitrification

Fabio Polesel , Barth F. Smets , Benedek G. Plósz , Henrik Rasmus Andersen
MEWE and biofilms IWA specialist conference

2016
Does reactor staging influence microbial structure and functions in biofilm systems? The case of pre-denitrifying MBBRs

Monica Escola Casas , Elena Torresi , Magnus Christensson , Jane Fowler
International Conference on Emerging Contaminants (EmCon2016) and Micropollutants (WiOW2016) in the Environment

2016
The influence of reactor staging on microbial structure and functions in pre-denitrifying MBBRs

Fabio Polesel , Barth F. Smets , Kai Bester , Monica Escola Casas
MEWE and biofilms IWA specialist conference 92 -93

2016
Improving the prediction of in-sewer transformation of illicit drug biomarkers by identifying a new modelling framework

Fabio Polesel , Benedek G. Plósz , Pedram Ramin , Elena Torresi
International Conference on Emerging Contaminants (EmCon2016) and Micropollutants (WiOW2016) in the Environment

2016
Sorption and diffusion of micropollutants on/in biofilms: experimental observations and a model-based interpretation

Fabio Polesel , Barth F. Smets , Benedek G. Plósz , Stefan Trapp
10th International Conference on Biofilm Reactors

2017
Moving bed biofilm reactors (MBBRs) for removal of pharmaceuticals in biological wastewater treatment

Fabio Polesel , Barth F. Smets , Benedek G. Plósz , Henrik Rasmus Andersen
NORDIWA Nordic Wastewater Conference 2017

1
2017
Can we enhance the biotransformation of pharmaceutical micropollutants by controlling biofilm thickness in MBBR

Fabio Polesel , Barth F. Smets , Benedek G. Plósz , Henrik Rasmus Andersen
IFAT - 2016

2016
Removal of pharmaceuticals in Moving Bed Biofilm Reactors – The impact of design and operating conditions

Fabio Polesel , Barth F. Smets , Benedek G. Plósz , Henrik Rasmus Andersen
IWA – Micropol2017 - 10th International conference on Micropollutants and ecohazards

2017
2019
Impact of carbon-dosing on micro-pollutants removal in MBBR post-denitrification systems

Benedek G. Plósz , Kai Bester , Monica Escola Casas , Elena Torresi
9th IWA Specialist Conference on Assessment and Control of Micropollutants and Hazardous Substances in Water

2015
Promoting the degradation of organic micropollutants in tertiary moving bed biofilm reactors by controlling growth and redox conditions.

Per Falås , Marinette Hagman , Magnus Christensson , Ellen Edefell
Journal of Hazardous Materials 414 125535 -125535

2021
Optimising nutrient removal of a hybrid five-stage Bardenpho and moving bed biofilm reactor process using response surface methodology

Elham Ashrafi , Arjomand Mehrabani Zeinabad , Seyed Mehdi Borghei , Elena Torresi
Journal of environmental chemical engineering 7 ( 1) 102861

11
2019
Removal of micropollutants during biological phosphorus removal: Impact of redox conditions in MBBR.

Elena Torresi , Kai Tang , Jie Deng , Christina Sund
Science of The Total Environment 663 496 -506

17
2019
Impact of external carbon dose on the removal of micropollutants using methanol and ethanol in post-denitrifying Moving Bed Biofilm Reactors.

Elena Torresi , Mònica Escolà Casas , Fabio Polesel , Benedek G. Plósz
Water Research 108 95 -105

46
2017
Removal of pharmaceuticals in pre-denitrifying MBBR - Influence of organic substrate availability in single- and three-stage configurations.

Fabio Polesel , Elena Torresi , Luca Loreggian , Mònica Escolà Casas
Water Research 123 408 -419

16
2017