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Having problems with our terms and abbreviations? Use Ctrl+F to search our list of glossary items below. Contact us if you find a sludge abbreviation or glossary term you think it would be useful to add.

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Waste activated sludge   WAS

Waste sludge stream from the activated sludge process
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Wedge wire

Type of screen formed from a metal wire lattice
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Wet air oxidation WAO

Oxidative thermochemical treatment at high temperatures in the presence of water using air as the source of oxygen
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Wet oxidation WO

Oxidative thermochemical treatment at high temperatures in the presence of water
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Wet torrefaction

An alternative term for 'hydrothermal carbonisation'
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Wind box

The space beneath an incinerator bed where heated air is introduced
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Windrows

Piles of composting material, periodically mechanically turned, for degrading sludge under ambient conditions
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