Knowledge Area: Operations Optimization
Our Objective
WERF will demonstrate that our subscriber wastewater facilities
can achieve at least a 20% improvement in wastewater or solids treatment
operations through economically and environmentally responsible process
optimizations for energy, cost, and/or environmental footprint in a
carbon-constrained world. WERF will provide guidance and tools as a
decision support system.
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 Guide Offers Best Practices Resources
This energy guide, provided by Focus on Energy in Wisconsin, offers resources on how water/wastewater management and staff can reduce energy.
 | Tool to Evaluate the Cost and Benefit of Biosolids Management Options
This tool, prepared under No. 04CTS2, assesses the benefits and costs of biosolids management options such as energy recovery, climate change and carbon accounting.
| A Long History of Research to Optimize Operations
Through the years, WERF researchers have started and mostly completed more than two dozen projects to optimize both solids and wastewater treatment processes. See this list of related projects.
| An Overview of Energy Recovery from Sludge
Download this fact sheet to take a technical look at energy recovery from sludge. Domestic wastewater commonly contains organic matter, nutrients, and minerals suspended in a water medium. These products of wastes are potentially valuable resources, both as energy and as reusable compounds.
| Wastewater Sludge to Renewable Energy
The view of municipal sewage has shifted from a waste to be treated and disposed of, to a resource that can be processed for recovery of energy, nutrients, and other constituents. Sewage contains 10 times the energy needed to treat it, and it is technically feasible to
recover energy from sludge. Download a fact sheet on this subject.
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