Reference number : GC-2017-Q1-02056, amendment number : , agreement type : G, recipient legal name : Chang, Sheng (University of Guelph), recipient country : CA, recipient province : nan, recipient city : Ontario, recipient postal code : nan, program name english : Discovery Grants Program - Individual, program name french : Programme de subventions à la découverte - individuelles, program purpose english : Reducing carbon footprints of wastewater treatment plants (WWTP) has become one of the main drivers for the innovation of wastewater treatment technology due to the growing concern on climate change. The anaerobic digestion (AD) process plays an important role in energy recovery and waste sludge stabilisation. Built upon our present research findings, this program aims to develop an advanced sludge anaerobic digestion technology that is characterised by a two-stage AD coupled with an intermediate thermal hydrolysis (TH) treatment, named as an AD-iTH process. The novelty of the AD-iTH technology can be ascribed to the intermediate TH process that is designed to treat the non-readily biodegradable sludge (nrbSludge). As demonstrated by our preliminary study, the AD-iTH is of potential to greatly enhance the VSS destruction, biogas production, and pathogen reduction. This program will focus on the TH treatment of nrbSludge, the AD-iTH process optimisation, the mechanisms of AD-iTH process, and the heavy metal bioavailability and fate mechanism in the AD-iTH system. The development and applications of the AD-iTH will bring significant economic and environmental benefits to the Canadian WWTPs through reducing waste sludge production, improving energy recovery, and reducing the solid management cost. In addition, this research program will provide excellent HQP training opportunities and generate frontier knowledge on the advanced AD technology. Therefore, the outcomes of this program will exert significant impact on the AD technology advancement and the practical applications of AD for energy recovery and emission reduction., program purpose french : Reducing carbon footprints of wastewater treatment plants (WWTP) has become one of the main drivers for the innovation of wastewater treatment technology due to the growing concern on climate change. The anaerobic digestion (AD) process plays an important role in energy recovery and waste sludge stabilisation. Built upon our present research findings, this program aims to develop an advanced sludge anaerobic digestion technology that is characterised by a two-stage AD coupled with an intermediate thermal hydrolysis (TH) treatment, named as an AD-iTH process. The novelty of the AD-iTH technology can be ascribed to the intermediate TH process that is designed to treat the non-readily biodegradable sludge (nrbSludge). As demonstrated by our preliminary study, the AD-iTH is of potential to greatly enhance the VSS destruction, biogas production, and pathogen reduction. This program will focus on the TH treatment of nrbSludge, the AD-iTH process optimisation, the mechanisms of AD-iTH process, and the heavy metal bioavailability and fate mechanism in the AD-iTH system. The development and applications of the AD-iTH will bring significant economic and environmental benefits to the Canadian WWTPs through reducing waste sludge production, improving energy recovery, and reducing the solid management cost. In addition, this research program will provide excellent HQP training opportunities and generate frontier knowledge on the advanced AD technology. Therefore, the outcomes of this program will exert significant impact on the AD technology advancement and the practical applications of AD for energy recovery and emission reduction., agreement title english : Development of the advanced anaerobic digestion technology for the energy recovery and emission reduction, agreement title french : Development of the advanced anaerobic digestion technology for the energy recovery and emission reduction, agreement number : RGPIN, agreement value : 105000.0, agreement start date : 2017-05-10, agreement end date : nan, description english : nan, description french : nan, expected results english : nan, expected results french : nan, additional information english : Grant or Award spanning more than one fiscal year. (2017-2018 to 2022-2023), additional information french : Subvention ou bourse octroyée s'appliquant à plus d'un exercice financier. (2017-2018 à 2022-2023), owner organization : nserc-crsng, owner organization title : Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada | Conseil de recherches en sciences naturelles et en génie du Canada