Assessing METland^® Design and Performance Through LCA: Techno-Environmental Study With Multifunctional Unit Perspective.

ABSTRACT: Conventional wastewater treatment technologies are costly and energy demanding; such issues are especially remarkable when small communities have to clean up their pollutants. In response to these requirements, a new variety of nature-based solution, so-called METland^®, has been recently develop by using concepts from Microbial Electrochemical Technologies (MET) to outperform classical constructed wetland regarding wastewater treatment. Thus, the current study evaluates two operation modes (aerobic and aerobic-anoxic) of a full-scale METland^®, including a Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) conducted under a Net Environmental Balance perspective. Moreover, a combined technical and environmental analysis using a Net Eutrophication Balance (NEuB) focus concluded that the downfl

SUBMITTER: Penacoba-Antona L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8226170 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature