Integrated Wastewater Systems
Resource recovery provides a paradigm shift from viewing waste outputs from our society such as wastewater as undesired byproducts that require energy-intensive treatment or expensive disposal to considering them as a product with valuable resources.
Significance:
This project will develop an innovative decision framework that integrates methods and tools from multiple disciplines, including reverse logistics, life cycle environmental impacts and cost analysis, and economic valuation, for designing the integrated wastewater system.
Current Objectives:
Completed Objectives:
Products and Publications:
Contact Us:
For inquiries on this project, contact Nancy Diaz-Elsayed: nancyd1<at>usf.edu
This project will develop an innovative decision framework that integrates methods and tools from multiple disciplines, including reverse logistics, life cycle environmental impacts and cost analysis, and economic valuation, for designing the integrated wastewater system.
Current Objectives:
- Investigate the influence of scale in a review of sustainability assessments for resource recovery systems
- Conduct a location-allocation analysis for the expansion of a wastewater treatment and reclamation system in Hillsborough County
- Evaluate the influence of climate, population density, and location on thermal energy recovery systems
Completed Objectives:
- Review the technologies implemented for small- to large-scale resource recovery systems, and identify benefits, challenges, and opportunities at each scale of implementation.
- Evaluate the sustainability of water reclamation by end use application for the City of Lakeland
Products and Publications:
- Diaz-Elsayed, N., Rezaei, N., Ndiaye, A., & Zhang, Q. (2020): Trends in the environmental and economic sustainability of wastewater-based resource recovery systems: A review. Journal of Cleaner Production, 121598.
- Diaz-Elsayed, N., Rezaei, N., Guo, T., Mohebbi, S., & Zhang, Q. (2019) "Wastewater-based resource recovery technologies across scale: A review." Resources, Conservation & Recycling, 145, 94-112.
- Rezaei, N., Diaz-Elsayed, N., Mohebbi, S., Xie, X., & Zhang, Q. (2019) "A multi-criteria sustainability assessment of water reuse applications: A case study in Lakeland, Florida." Environmental Science: Water Research & Technology, 5, 102-118.
- Diaz-Elsayed, N. & Zhang, Q. (2018) “Process characterization for the design and operation of sustainable systems” American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) Manufacturing Science and Engineering Conference (MSEC), College Station, CA, June 18-22, 2018. (poster)
- Rezaei, N., Sierra-Altamiranda, A., Diaz-Elsayed, N., Charkhgard, H., & Zhang, Q. (2018) “A multi-objective optimization model for water system management: site and technology selection, capacity allocation, and degree of decentralization. Case study: Hillsborough County.” 2018 WateReuse California Annual Conference, Monterey, CA, March 25-28, 2018. (poster)
- Zhang, Q., Mohebbi, S., & Rezaei, N. (2017) “Integrated Water/Wastewater Systems from the Perspective of Reverse Logistics Network Case Study: City of Lakeland, FL”, Association of Environmental Engineering and Science Professors (AEESP) 2017 conference, Ann Arbor, MI, June 20-22, 2017. (presentation & poster).
- Mohebbi, S. & Zhang, Q. (2016) “Optimizing Reverse Logistics Network for Integrated Water/Wastewater Systems: Economic, Social, and Environmental Aspects.” Logistics and Supply Chain Track at IIE national conference, Anaheim, CA, May 21-24. (presentation)
Contact Us:
For inquiries on this project, contact Nancy Diaz-Elsayed: nancyd1<at>usf.edu