Enhanced anaerobic degradability of highly polluted pesticides-bearing wastewater under thermophilic conditions.This work presents a sustainable and cost-competitive solution for hardly biodegradable pesticides-bearing wastewater treatment in an anaerobic expanded granular sludge bed (EGSB) reactor at mesophilic (35°C) and thermophilic (55°C).  The reactor was operated in continuous mode during 160days, achieving an average COD removal of 33 and 44% under mesophilic and thermophilic conditions, respectively.  Around 96% of pesticides identified in raw wastewater were not detected in both mesophilic and thermophilic effluents. 
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Enhanced anaerobic degradability of highly polluted pesticides-bearing wastewater under thermophilic conditions.This work presents a sustainable and cost-competitive solution for hardly biodegradable pesticides-bearing wastewater treatment in an anaerobic expanded granular sludge bed (EGSB) reactor at mesophilic (35°C) and thermophilic (55°C).  The reactor was operated in continuous mode during 160days, achieving an average COD removal of 33 and 44% under mesophilic and thermophilic conditions, respectively.  Around 96% of pesticides identified in raw wastewater were not detected in both mesophilic and thermophilic effluents. 
THERM
Enhanced anaerobic degradability of highly polluted pesticides-bearing wastewater under thermophilic conditions.This work presents a sustainable and cost-competitive solution for hardly biodegradable pesticides-bearing wastewater treatment in an anaerobic expanded granular sludge bed (EGSB) reactor at mesophilic (35°C) and thermophilic (55°C).  The reactor was operated in continuous mode during 160days, achieving an average COD removal of 33 and 44% under mesophilic and thermophilic conditions, respectively.  Around 96% of pesticides identified in raw wastewater were not detected in both mesophilic and thermophilic effluents. 
THERM
Enhanced anaerobic degradability of highly polluted pesticides-bearing wastewater under thermophilic conditions.This work presents a sustainable and cost-competitive solution for hardly biodegradable pesticides-bearing wastewater treatment in an anaerobic expanded granular sludge bed (EGSB) reactor at mesophilic (35°C) and thermophilic (55°C).  The reactor was operated in continuous mode during 160days, achieving an average COD removal of 33 and 44% under mesophilic and thermophilic conditions, respectively.  Around 96% of pesticides identified in raw wastewater were not detected in both mesophilic and thermophilic effluents. 
THERM