ABSTRACT
This introduction presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book provides a short overview of the development and characteristics of the aerobic granular sludge (AGS) wastewater treatment process. It compares the removal efficiency of viral and bacterial indicators in two full-scale AGS systems is determined and compared with two parallel, full-scale CAS systems. The book investigates removal degradation mechanisms of viral and bacterial pathogen surrogates in two laboratory-scale AGS reactors. It testa the effect of a high particulate substrate using synthetic faecal sludge in AGS laboratory-scale reactors on granulation, system performance, and ecology. The book investigates eukaryotic structures based on rRNA gene sequencing in two full-scale AGS systems. It shows the research's outlook and the concluding remarks from this thesis.
