Adam Masłoń

Adam Masłoń
Rzeszów University of Technology · Department of Environmental Engineering and Chemistry

PhD Eng

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Using post-fermentation leachate as fertilizer is a good alternative and solution to the problem of waste at wastewater treatment plants and contains the principles of sustainable development. Leachate from anaerobic treatment of sewage sludge contains valuable elements such as phosphorus, nitrogen and potassium, which can improve soil properties....
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Currently, one of the main goals is to make municipal wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) energy-neutral. However, advanced wastewater treatments and sewage sludge processing are still classified as highly energy-intensive. In this study, the energy self-sufficiency potential assessment of the WWTP located in Krosno (Poland) was evaluated. Moreover...
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The primary objective of this research was to assess the efficacy of a novel solution under conditions closely resembling those of real-world scenarios. Biological beds, or filters, hold significant potential for widespread implementation in individual households, particularly in areas with dispersed housing. The system’s aim was to improve the qua...
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Wastewater is an environment very rich in a number of microorganisms, including many pathogens. The conducted research aimed to determine the microbiological quality of the post-fermentation leachates from municipal treatment plants and the parameters of their hygienization. Thermal treatment of liquid from mechanical dewatering of sewage sludge fr...
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This paper presents a study under the dynamic conditions of marl and travertine materials and their thermal modifications (heated in a muffle furnace for 1 h: marl at 1000 °C, and travertine at 700 °C) and the material Polonite® in terms of phosphorus binding from municipal wastewater. The tests were carried out in filtration columns using hydrauli...
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The paper presents physicochemical studies of nine reactive materials for removing phosphorus from wastewater and water. The materials under analysis are raw forms of marl and travertine along with their thermally treated forms at temperatures of 500 °C, 650 °C, 700 °C (travertine), 700 °C, 900 °C, 1000 °C (marl) and the commercial material Polonit...
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Using Poland as an example, it was shown that 41.6% of the requests for intervention in 2016–2021 by Environmental Protection Inspections were related to odour nuisance. Further analysis of the statistical data confirmed that approximately 5.4% of wastewater treatment plants in the group of municipal facilities were subject to complaints. Detailed...
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The topical challenge for the Polish, European, and global fertilizer industry is to produce sufficient nutrients for growing plants using more energy-efficient and environmentally friendly methods. The appropriate course of action, in terms of the challenges posed, could be the production of liquid fertilizers, made from waste materials that exhib...
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The paper presents new reactive materials, namely marl and travertine, and their thermal modifications and the Polonite® material, analyzing their phosphorus removal from water and wastewater by sorption. Based on the experimental data, an analysis of the factors influencing the sorption capacity of the materials, such as the material dose, pH of t...
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Household wastewater is a problem, especially in areas with a dispersed settlement where there is no wastewater collection system or wastewater treatment plant. In this case, it is necessary to build a local or onsite wastewater treatment plant. This paper is an attempt to analyse the possibility of using recycled shredded ABS plastic (acrylonitril...
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Variability in the load of pollutants significantly influences the efficiency of activated sludge technology in municipal wastewater treatment plants, both in terms of flow systems and in sequencing batch reactors (SBR). Diversified inflow of wastewater to the treatment plant has a significant impact on the technological efficiency of sequencing ba...
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Due to non-renewable resources and the need to meet the world’s food needs, phosphorus is considered a strategic resource. As a component of agricultural fertilizers, phosphorus is the main factor causing the eutrophication process, which makes it necessary to the efficient removal of phosphorus from wastewater, will also enable the recovery of thi...
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Based on the assumptions of the circular economy model and sustainable development, we are currently looking for natural and ecological materials in terms of wastewater treatment of pollutants. This article presents the research of three mineral materials – lava rock (LR), lightweight sintered aggregate (LSA) and lightweight clay aggregates (LCA) u...
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The improvement of energy efficiency ensuring high nutrients removal is a great concern for many wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs). The energy balance of a WWTP can be improved through the application of highly efficient digestion or its intensification, e.g., through the introduction of the co-substrates with relatively high energy potential to...
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A rational way to treat and disposal sewage sludge is to use it as a substrate for biogas production in the anaerobic digestion process, doing so can lead to an improvement in the energy efficiency of the entire wastewater treatment plant, and even enable it to become energy self-sufficient. The article analyses the amount of energy consumption in...
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Air stripping is commonly used to remove the ammonia in multistage treatment systems for municipal landfill leachate (LFL). This paper proposes a novel approach combining the process of stripping with biological removal of ammonia, based on simultaneous nitrification and denitrification (SND) in a single hybrid sequencing batch reactor (HSBR). To a...
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The effects of two powdered mineral materials (powdered ceramsite and powdered limestone) on aerobic granulation of sludge were evaluated. The experiment was conducted on a laboratory scale bioreactors treating wastewater for 89 days. Three granular sequencing batch reactors (GSBRs) were operated at the lowest optimal organic loading rate (OLR) of...
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Modern technologies designed to treat wastewater containing phosphorus compounds are based on the processes of adsorption and precipitation. In addition, more environmentally friendly and cheaper materials are being sought to ensure greater conformity with overarching assumptions of green chemistry and sustainable development. Against that backgrou...
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Increasing requirements of wastewater treatments and the development of wastewater treatment and sewage sludge systems cause a significant increase in the demand for electricity and heat. An alternative way to obtain cheap energy is to use biogas produced in the anaerobic digestion process from sewage sludge. The paper presents an analysis of sewag...
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Due to inappropriate agricultural treatments, soils often turn into wastelands. After years, the return to cultivation is very difficult or even impossible. It is a serious problem for agriculture, also in Poland. In order to improve soil quality and to restore its value in use, different fertilizers are commonly used. As an alternative for artific...
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Biological methods of removing phosphorus compounds from wastewater as applied currently at treatment plants may no longer be regarded as sufficient. They can therefore be augmented by physico-chemical methods raising the efficiency of the wastewater treatment system. Indeed, almost all large urban wastewater treatment plants practise precipitation...
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This study aimed to evaluate and compare the physical, chemical and biological properties of aerobic granular sludge from reactors with the addition of different powdered mineral materials. These properties have a significant impact on the efficiency of systems in which the biomass in granular form is used. Four identical granular sequencing batch...
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In wastewater treatment, aerobic granular sludge (AGS) technology is a relatively new alternative to the activated sludge method. The biogranulation of biomass ensues when appropriate environmental conditions in a reactor are ensured, and one of the factors determining this is the organic loading rate (OLR). As a literature review suggests, the opt...
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The management of sewage sludge at wastewater treatment plants is a very important technical, economic and environmental issue. One of the popular environment-friendly methods of processing sludge is methane fermentation – a complex biochemical process through which organic matter present undergoes biochemical decomposition in anaerobic conditions,...
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As the efficiency of biological wastewater treatment in activated sludge systems can be increased if powdered mineral materials are added, the work described here investigated the effect of powdered keramsite on activated sludge and wastewater treatment in a sequencing batch reactor on the laboratory scale. Specifically, experiments were carried ou...
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The high content of water in sludge results in its big volume and contributes to the high operating costs of wastewater treatment plants. Chemical conditioning is commonly used in order to improve mechanical dewatering in treatment plants. The cost of chemical reagents is significant, thus it is important to find effective and inexpensive condition...
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Urbanizacja, kanalizowanie nowych obszarów oraz wdrażanie wysokoefektywnych procesów oczyszczania ścieków są głównymi czynnikami wpływającymi na coroczny wzrost produkcji osadów ściekowych. Specyficzna charakterystyka osadów, w szczególności obecność szkodliwych substancji i organizmów patogennych, determinują konieczność odpowiedniego doboru final...
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The article discusses the possibility of recycling the biomass ashes in a sewage sludge management. In laboratory tests, ashes from straw and beech wood combustion were used. The effectiveness of sludge conditioning was investigated by the capillary suction time (CST) measurement. The influence of straw and beech wood ashes on sewage sludge dewater...
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Słoma jest jednym z podstawowych rodzajów biomasy pozyskiwanym z produkcji rolniczej. W wyniku ograniczenia hodowli i chowu zwierząt gospodarskich, nadwyżki słomy w 2011 r. szacowane były na około 8-10 mln ton. Obecnie krajowe nadwyżki słomy szacuje się na 9–12 mln Mg, co odpowiada około 6 mln ton węgla kamiennego. Nadmiar wyprodukowanej słomy możn...
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During biomass combustion, there are formed combustion products. Available data indicates that only 29.1 % of biomass ashes were recycled in Poland in 2013. Chemical composition and sorptive properties of ashes enable their application in the sewage sludge treatment. This paper analyses the impact of ashes from biomass-combustion power plant on sew...
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Aerobic Granular Sludge (AGS) technology becomes a very competitive method to activated sludge system. Its main advantages include: high energy efficiency and low investment costs. Despite this fact, intensive research on biogranulation optimization are still carried out, both at laboratory and technical scale. In order to intensify the AGS technol...
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This paper shows the influence of biomass ashes on sewage sludge dewatering. Laboratory tests were carried out for selected biomass ashes: from combustion of straw and willow tree for dosages of ashes in a range of 5÷30 g·dm–3. The results confirmed the different effectiveness of ashes on sewage sludge dewatering, depending on the sort of biomass a...
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Sewage sludge management in Poland is a relatively new field of waste management called “in statu nascendi”, the standards of which have not been recognized yet. It also requires the implementation of new solutions in the field of sewage sludge. So far, the most popular method of sewage sludge utilization has been landfill disposal. In line with th...
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The wastewater treatment produces a huge amount of excess sludge which has to be removed in line with ecological and legal requirements. Raw sewage sludge is characterized by the high moisture content, over 90 % and the microbiological activity. The high content of water in sewage sludge results in its big volume and generates significant problems...
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Wzrost zapotrzebowania na energię wiąże się ze spalaniem paliw i tym samym wytwarzaniem coraz większej ilości ubocznych produktów spalania (UPS), w tym popiołów lotnych. Rocznie w Polsce powstaje około 4,2 mln ton popiołu, z czego tylko niewielką część poddaje się procesowi recyklingu (zwłaszcza w sektorze budowlanym). Ograniczenia dotyczące komerc...
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In compliance with the requirements of the EU climate and energy package (3 × 20 %), the biomass consumption in energetic industry is systematically growing. As a consequence, a large amount of ashes is produced which requires the management in line with law and ecology. Stringent requirements concerning the chemical composition of ashes prevent th...
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Wastewater treatment plants can be classified as energy-intensive facilities, as they account for up to 35 percent of municipal energy consumption. Pumps and aeration systems consume a significant portion of energy within the wastewater plants in particular. The cost of energy consumption for wastewater treatment processes reaches up to 40% of the...
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Osady ściekowe, traktowane jako mineralno-organiczna faza wyodrębniona ze ścieków, ze względu na swoje właściwości nawozowe, mogą być z powodzeniem stosowane jako środek kondycjonujący glebę. Wzrost ilości produkowanych osadów ściekowych wymusza konieczność poszukiwania nowych rozwiązań dotyczących ich zagospodarowania, korzystnych pod względem eko...
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This paper presents the results of analyses of the monitoring selected energetic willow plantations (30 ha) located in Podkarpackie Province (Poland), which have been fertilised using a prototype trailer for land-applying municipal sludge. The fertilisation of the willow plantation is undertaken using this prototype for the subsurface application o...
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W pracy przedstawiono analizę zmienności ładunków zanieczyszczeń dopływających do Miejskiej Oczyszczalni Ścieków w Stalowej Woli. Oczyszczalnia funkcjonuje od 1993 roku, a w latach 2006 - 2009 została przeprowadzona jej gruntowna modernizacja. Proces technologiczny opiera się na dwustopniowym, mechaniczno-biologicznym oczyszczaniu ścieków, z przeró...
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The conditions have been examined under which selected groups of microorganisms might be applied to prevent or significantly reduce the generation of odour from the processing and storage of the wastewater sludge. A series of experiments were conducted on a semi-industrial scale, using effective microorganisms (EM) activated in molasses solutions....
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The aim of the study was to verify the effectiveness of decrease of odour production during sludge stabilization with selected groups of microorganisms in conditions similar to those occurring on sludge storage pads. The experiments were carried out on a laboratory scale; the biopreparation EM-bio was used. It was found that in anaerobic conditions...
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The tests on wastewater sludge processing with bio-preparation and structural material were car-ried out on a laboratory scale in three series. In each series, secondary sludge was used after aerobic stabilization and dewatering. Bio-preparation, called EM-bio, was applied. Wooden chips, sand and compost made of waste were used as a structural mate...
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The example of an innovative method for the removal of ammonium nitrogen from dewatered digested sludge, landfill leachates and ammonia-rich industrial wastewaters is provided. The proc-ess called DEAMOX, is based on anaerobic oxidation of ammonium (Anammox) and on autotro-phic denitrification of sulphur, and is an alternative method of conventiona...
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Conversions of nitrogen through Anammox processes in aquatic ecosystems can occur in deeper levels of water and in bottom sediments, participating significantly in the full cycle of nitrogen cir-culation. This paper shows the present condition of knowledge in this field, based on the analysis of the available literature.
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This study is a review of the new methods of ammonium nitrogen removal from liquids which ori-ginate from dewatering of digested sludge based on the rule of deammonification in biofilm systems.

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