{"title":"Solar-enhanced biological wastewater treatment","authors":"Wenbin Wang, Yue Huang, Peng Wang","doi":"10.1038/s41893-025-01587-9","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Biological wastewater treatment is a key process for industrial and municipal wastewater remediation; however, treatment performance declines notably under low-temperature environmental conditions (≤15 °C). Now, researchers report a solar–thermal conversion strategy that sustains the bacterial micro-niche at a high temperature (>30 °C) by efficiently converting solar energy into thermal energy.","PeriodicalId":19056,"journal":{"name":"Nature Sustainability","volume":"8 9","pages":"990-991"},"PeriodicalIF":27.1000,"publicationDate":"2025-07-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Nature Sustainability","FirstCategoryId":"93","ListUrlMain":"https://www.nature.com/articles/s41893-025-01587-9","RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q1","JCRName":"ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
Biological wastewater treatment is a key process for industrial and municipal wastewater remediation; however, treatment performance declines notably under low-temperature environmental conditions (≤15 °C). Now, researchers report a solar–thermal conversion strategy that sustains the bacterial micro-niche at a high temperature (>30 °C) by efficiently converting solar energy into thermal energy.
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Nature Sustainability aims to facilitate cross-disciplinary dialogues and bring together research fields that contribute to understanding how we organize our lives in a finite world and the impacts of our actions.
Nature Sustainability will not only publish fundamental research but also significant investigations into policies and solutions for ensuring human well-being now and in the future.Its ultimate goal is to address the greatest challenges of our time.