Phosphorus recovery from covered digester effluent with a continuous-flow struvite crystallizer

Applied Engineering in Agriculture

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 153-161

  Westerman, Philip W ^a   Bowers, Keith E ^b   Zering, Kelly D ^c  

^a North Carolina State University   (United States)

^b Multiform Harvest Inc   (United States)

^c NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Phosphorus removal; Struvite; Swine digester effluent

Indexed keywords

ANAEROBIC DIGESTER; ANNUAL COST; CHEMICAL COSTS; CONTINUOUS-FLOW; DIRECT PUMPING; FORMED MATERIALS; MAGNESIUM AMMONIUM PHOSPHATES; ORTHOPHOSPHATE PHOSPHORUS; PHOSPHORUS RECOVERY; PHOSPHORUS REMOVAL; SCALE SYSTEM; STANDARD DEVIATION; STRUVITE; STRUVITES; SWINE MANURE; TEST PERFORMANCE; THEORETICAL VALUES; TOTAL PHOSPHORUS; TP REMOVAL;

AMMONIUM COMPOUNDS; CALCIUM; CALCIUM ALLOYS; CALCIUM COMPOUNDS; CRYSTALLIZERS; MAGNESIUM; MANURES; REDUCTION;

PHOSPHORUS;

SUIDAE;

EID: 77949303962     PISSN: 08838542     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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