1. Asadi, A., Verma, A., Yang, K., & Mejabi, B. (2016). Wastewater treatment aeration process optimization: A data mining approach. Journal of Environmental Management, 203, 630–639. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvman.2016.07.047
2. Awaitey, A. (2021). Carbon footprint of Finnish wastewater treatment plants. Master's Programme in Water and Environmental Engineering (WAT). Aalto Univerity – School of Engineering. https://aaltodoc.aalto.fi/items/ef9c9429-deb3-45d5-9f10-974bf481d394
3. Burchart, D., Zawartka, P. (2023). Determinants of environmental assessment of Polish individual wastewater treatment plants in a life cycle perspective. Archives of Environmental Protection. 10.24425/aep.2019.128640.
4. Carbon Footprint Calculation Tool (CFCT). (2014). VA-teknik Södra. [software] Retrieved on October 3, 2024 from https://va-tekniksodra.se/2014/11/carbonfootprint-calculation-tool-for-wwtps-now-available-in-english/
5. Carbon Footprint Calculation Tool (CFCT). (2024). VA-teknik Södra. [software] Retrieved on November 3, 2024 from https://va-tekniksodra.se/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/Calculation-Tool-Carbon-Footprint-Wastewater-Treatment-Plants.xls
6. De Haas, D., & Andrews, J. (2022). Nitrous oxide emissions from wastewater treatment - Revisiting the IPCC 2019 refinement guidelines. Environmental Challenges, 8, 100557. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envc.2022.100557
7. Faragò, M., Damgaard, A., Rebsdorf, M., Nielsen, P. H., & Rygaard, M. (2022). Challenges in carbon footprint evaluations of state-of-the-art municipal wastewater resource recovery facilities. Journal of Environmental Management, 320, 115715. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvman.2022.115715
8. Fighir, D., Teodosiu, C., & Fiore, S. (2019). Environmental and Energy assessment of municipal wastewater treatment plants in Italy and Romania: a comparative study. Water, 11(8), 1611. https://doi.org/10.3390/w11081611
9. Foley, J., De Haas, D., Yuan, Z., & Lant, P. (2010). Nitrous oxide generation in full-scale biological nutrient removal wastewater treatment plants. Water Research, 44(3), 831–844. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.watres.2009.10.033
10. Huang, Y., Meng, F., Liu, S., Sun, S., & Smith, K. (2022). China’s enhanced urban wastewater treatment increases greenhouse gas emissions and regional inequality. Water Research, 230, 119536. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.watres.2022.119536
11. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. (2019). 2019 Refinement to the 2006 IPCC Guidelines for National Greenhouse Gas Inventories: Guidelines for wastewater treatment and discharge (Vol. 5, Chapter 6). https://www.ipccnggip.iges.or.jp/public/2019rf/index.html
12. Jiménez-Paute, R., Hidalgo, M., Guaya, D., & Martí-Herrero, J. (2025). Performance of a low-cost full-scale wastewater treatment system: Tubular digesters combined with granular filtration for domestic wastewater in the Ecuadorian Amazon. Journal of Water Process Engineering, 69, 106797. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jwpe.2024.106797
13. Lee, H. and Romero, J. eds. (2023). Climate Change 2014: Sixth Assessment Report (AR6). Contribution of Working Groups I, II and III to the Fifth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. IPCC, https://www.ipcc.ch/report/ar6/syr/
14. Lotfikatouli, S., Pan, Q., Wang, M., Russo, F. M., Gobler, C. J., & Mao, X. (2024). Effective nitrogen removal from onsite wastewater using a sequencing aerated biofilm reactor. Journal of Water Process Engineering, 60, 105132. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jwpe.2024.105132
15. Maktabifard, M., Awaitey, A., Merta, E., Haimi, H., Zaborowska, E., Mikola, A., & Mąkinia, J. (2021). Comprehensive evaluation of the carbon footprint components of wastewater treatment plants located in the Baltic Sea region. The Science of the Total Environment, 806, 150436. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.150436
16. Massara, T. M., Malamis S., Guisasola A., Baeza J. A., Noutsopoulos C., Katsou E. (2017). A review on nitrous oxide (N2O) emissions during biological nutrient removal from municipal wastewater and sludge reject water. Science of The Total Environment, Volumes 596–597, 2017, Pages 106-123, ISSN 0048-9697, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2017.03.191
17. Nejad, A. (2020). Carbon Footprints for wastewater treatment plants Master thesis within environmental science. University of Gothenburg - Department of Biological And Environmental Sciences. https://cms.it.gu.se/infoglueDeliverWorking/digitalAssets/1779/1779974_master-thesis-romeyseh-aryan-nejad_final-version.pdf
18. Pachauri, R.K and Meyer, L. A. eds. (2014). Climate Change 2014: Fifth Assessment Report (AR5). Contribution of Working Groups I, II and III to the Fifth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. IPCC https://www.ipcc.ch/report/ar5/syr/
19. Pachauri, R.K and Reisinger, A. eds. (2007). Climate Change 2007: Fourth Assessment Report (AR4). Contribution of Working Groups I, II and III to the Fifth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. IPCC, https://www.ipcc.ch/report/ar4/syr/
20. Saidan, M., Khasawneh, H. J., Aboelnga, H., Meric, S., Kalavrouziotis, I., Jasem, A. S. H. et al. (2019). Baseline carbon emission assessment in water utilities in Jordan using ECAM tool. Journal of Water Supply Research and Technology—AQUA, 68(6), 460–473. https://doi.org/10.2166/aqua.2019.040
21. Smith, K., Guo, S., Zhu, Q., Dong, X., & Liu, S. (2019). An evaluation of the environmental benefit and energy footprint of China’s stricter wastewater standards: Can benefit be increased? Journal of Cleaner Production, 219, 723–733. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2019.01.204
22. Song, C., Zhu, J., Willis, J. L., Moore, D. P., Zondlo, M. A., & Ren, Z. J. (2024). Oversimplification and misestimation of nitrous oxide emissions from wastewater treatment plants. Nature Sustainability, 7(10), 1348–1358. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41893-024-01420-9
23. Szaja A, Bartkowska I. Implementation of solidified carbon dioxide to anaerobic co-digestion of municipal sewage sludge and orange peel waste. Archives of Environmental Protection. 2024;50:72–79. doi:10.24425/aep.2024.149433
24. Tian, Y., Liu, S., Guo, Z., Wu, N., Liang, J., Zhao, R. et al. (2022). Insight into Greenhouse Gases Emissions and Energy Consumption of Different Full-Scale Wastewater Treatment Plants via ECAM Tool. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 19(20), 13387. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph192013387
25. Water and Wastewater Companies for Climate Mitigation (WaCCliM). (2024). Energy Performance and Carbon Emissions Assessment and Monitoring Tool (ECAM). [software]. https://climatesmartwater.org/ecam/
26. Wei, R., Hu, Y., Yu, K., Zhang, L., Liu, G., Hu, C. et al. (2024). Assessing the determinants of scale effects on carbon efficiency in China’s wastewater treatment plants using causal machine learning. Resources Conservation and Recycling, 203, 107432. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.resconrec.2024.107432
27. WRI, WBCSD. (2014). World Resources Institute and World Business Council for Sustainable Development, Greenhouse Gas Protocol. A Corporate Accounting and Reporting Standard REVISED EDITION. https://ghgprotocol.org/sites/default/files/standards/ghg-protocol-revised.pdf
28. Zhang, X., Ma, G., Chen, T., Yan, C., Chen, Y., Wang, Q. et al. (2024). Towards carbon-neutral biotechnologies for rural wastewater: A review of current treatment processes and future perspectives. Journal of Water Process Engineering, 58, 104773. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jwpe.2024.104773

Abstracting & Indexing

Archives of Environmental Protection is covered by the following services:

AGRICOLA (National Agricultural Library)

Arianta

Baidu

BazTech

BIOSIS Citation Index

CABI

CAS

DOAJ

EBSCO

Engineering Village

GeoRef

Google Scholar

Index Copernicus

Journal Citation Reports™

Journal TOCs

KESLI-NDSL

Naviga

ProQuest

SCOPUS

Reaxys

Ulrich's Periodicals Directory

WorldCat

Web of Science