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Elena Ficara

Università degli Studi di Milano

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Scholarly Papers (6)

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Piggery Wastewater Treatment with Algae-Bacteria Consortia: Pilot-Scale Validation and Techno-Economic Evaluation at Farm Level

Number of pages: 35 Posted: 17 Feb 2022
Simone Rossi, Andrea Pizzera, Micol Bellucci, Francesca Marazzi, Valeria Mezzanotte, Katia Parati and Elena Ficara
Università degli Studi di Milano, affiliation not provided to SSRN, affiliation not provided to SSRN, Università degli Studi di Milano, Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca, affiliation not provided to SSRN and Università degli Studi di Milano
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Swine wastewater treatment, Microalgal biomass production, Nutrient removal and recovery, Techno-economic assessment, Intensive pig farming

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Optimizing Algal Productivity and Nitrogen Recovery from Digestates by Adapting Solid Retention Time and Alkalinity

Number of pages: 39 Posted: 16 Feb 2022
Francesca Casagli, Fabrice Beline, Elena Ficara and Olivier BERNARD
affiliation not provided to SSRN, affiliation not provided to SSRN, Università degli Studi di Milano and affiliation not provided to SSRN
Downloads 102 (679,608)

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Nitrogen recovery, modelling, optimization, membranes, algae-bacteria

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Model predictive control of anaerobic co-digestion: experimental validation of a robust tube-based scheme

Number of pages: 50 Posted: 06 Jan 2026
Davide Carecci, Laurent Dewasme, Elena Ficara, Alain Vande Wouwer, Gianni Ferretti and Santiago García-Gen
affiliation not provided to SSRN, affiliation not provided to SSRN, Università degli Studi di Milano, affiliation not provided to SSRN, affiliation not provided to SSRN and affiliation not provided to SSRN
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Biomethane, anaerobic co-digestion, Robust Control, experimental validation, NMPC, EKF

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From by-products to resources: bioconversion of agricultural digestate, carbon dioxide and syngas into value-added microbial protein

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From by-products to resources: bioconversion of agricultural digestate, carbon dioxide and syngas into value-added microbial protein

Number of pages: 27 Posted: 22 Dec 2025
Francesca Di Benedetto, Andrea Turolla, Elena Ficara, Raul Muñoz and Sara Cantera
Polytechnic University of Milan, Polytechnic University of Milan, Università degli Studi di Milano, University of Valladolid and Wageningen University and Research (WUR)
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Carboxydotrophs, Carbon dioxide utilization, Digestate valorization, Hydrogen-oxidizing bacteria, Single-cell proteins, Syngas fermentation

From by-products to resources: bioconversion of agricultural digestate, carbon dioxide and syngas into value-added microbial protein

Number of pages: 30 Posted: 03 Mar 2026
Francesca Di Benedetto, Andrea Turolla, Elena Ficara, Raul Munoz and Sara Cantera
Polytechnic University of Milan, Polytechnic University of Milan, Università degli Studi di Milano, University of Valladolid and Wageningen University and Research (WUR)
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Carboxydotrophs, Carbon dioxide utilization, Digestate valorization, Hydrogen-oxidizing bacteria, Single-cell protein, Syngas fermentation

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Removal of Pharmaceutical Compounds from the Liquid Phase of Anaerobic Sludge in a Pilot-Scale Algae-Bacteria Pond

Number of pages: 18 Posted: 15 Aug 2023
Marco Mantovani, Simone Rossi, Elena Ficara, Elena Collina, Francesca Marazzi, Marina Lasagni and Valeria Mezzanotte
Università degli Studi di Milano, Università degli Studi di Milano, Università degli Studi di Milano, University of Milano-Bicocca, Università degli Studi di Milano, University of Milano-Bicocca and Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca
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microalgae, pharmaceutical compounds, remediation, emerging pollutants, wastewater, sludge centrate

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Anaerobic Valorization of Sewage Sludge Pretreated Through Hydrothermal Carbonization: Volatile Fatty Acids and Biomethane Production

Number of pages: 35 Posted: 11 Jun 2024
Matteo Grana, Giorgia Riboli, Valeria Tatangelo, Marco Mantovani, Isabella Gandolfi, Andrea Turolla and Elena Ficara
Polytechnic University of Milan, Polytechnic University of Milan, University of Milano-Bicocca, Università degli Studi di Milano, affiliation not provided to SSRN, Polytechnic University of Milan and Università degli Studi di Milano
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Acidogenic fermentation, Anaerobic digestion, Fermentative microbial community, resource recovery, Thermochemical processes