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Biological reactor
Concentration
ELAN
A-stage
IFAS
UASB

st
1 stage Sludge management
Sludge pre- AD
treatment

ELAN+
struvite
SCENA

FIGURE 3.5 PIONEER_STP layout.

3.7 CONCLUSIONS

This chapter has delved into the main environmental findings that have been reported
in the literature in the analysis of wastewater treatment technologies by life cycle
perspective methodologies. LCA has been shown to be a key environmental method-
ology to identify key hotspots in the analysis of wastewater treatment technologies
and provide extensive information to define criteria and establish priorities in the
selection of technologies for wastewater treatment.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
This research has been supported by the EU project (PIONEER_STP). The authors
belong to the Galician Competitive Research Group GRC 2013-032, program co-
funded by FEDER: Fondo Europeo de Desarrollo Regional, as well as to CRETUS
(AGRUP2015/02)

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