The Digest’s 2025 Multi-Slide Guide to High-Performance Anaerobic Membrane Bioreactors for Waste to Energy

This presentation by Lance Schideman from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, focuses on a cloth filter anaerobic membrane bioreactor (CFAnMBR) for municipal wastewater treatment. The CFAnMBR technology achieves high flux with low cleaning energy, resolving major limitations of mainstream anaerobic digestion. The system results in net energy production, eliminating aeration needs but requires optimization of coagulant use and resolution of dissolved methane in the effluent. Alternative ammonia management methods were explored to address the high chemical and energy inputs of NH3 electrolysis.