Research progress and perspective on sludge anaerobic digestion technology: A bibliometric analysis
2024
Denglong Lu | Yang Song | Zhaoguang Yang | Haipu Li
Rational disposal of sludge is an ongoing concern. This work is the first attempt for in-depth statistical analysis of anaerobic digestion (AD) research in recent three decades (1986–2022) using both quantitative and qualitative approaches in bibliometrics to investigate the research progress, trends and hot spots. All publications in the Web of Science Core Collection database from 1986 to April 4, 2022 were analyzed. Results showed that the research on AD started in 1999 and the number of papers significantly increased since 2012. The research about the disposal of sewage sludge mainly focuses on energy recovery (e.g. methane and short chain volatile organic acids) by AD. Besides, different pretreatment technologies were studied in this study to eliminate the negative effects on the disposal of sludge caused by hydrolysis (rate-limiting step of AD), water content (increasing the costs) and heavy metal (toxic to the environment) of sludge. Of those, the treatment technologies related to direct interspecies electron transfer were worth further studied in the future. Towards that end, iron conductive material, iron-based advanced oxidation and biological treatment were concluded as the prospective technologies and worth to further study. HIGHLIGHTS Sustainable pretreatment is vital to anaerobic digestion (AD) for optimum environmental benefits.; The pretreatment enhancing direct interspecies electron transfer during AD is essential.; The sustainable iron-based advanced oxidation process pretreatment is prospective in AD.; Sludge co-digested with food waste is a win-win treatment.;
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