Phosphorus recovery from human urine and anaerobically treated wastewater through pH adjustment and chemical precipitation

Environmental Technology

Volumn 32, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 693-698

  Kemacheevakul, Patiya ^a   Polprasert, Chongrak ^b   Shimizu, Yoshihisa ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b THAMMASAT UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

Author keywords

anaerobically treated wastewater; chemical precipitation; mineralogical structure; phosphorus recovery; urine

Indexed keywords

BODY FLUIDS; CALCIUM CARBONATE; CHEMICAL CONTAMINATION; EFFLUENTS; PH; PHOSPHORUS; POPULATION STATISTICS; PRECIPITATES; PRECIPITATION (CHEMICAL); SILICON COMPOUNDS; SODIUM CHLORIDE; WASTEWATER; WASTEWATER TREATMENT; X RAY DIFFRACTION; X RAY DIFFRACTION ANALYSIS;

CHEMICAL PRECIPITATION; MINERALOGICAL STRUCTURE; PHOSPHORUS RECOVERY; TREATED WASTEWATER; URINE;

RECOVERY;

PHOSPHORUS; STRUVITE;

ANOXIC CONDITIONS; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; MINERALOGY; PH; PHOSPHORUS; PRECIPITATION (CHEMISTRY); SOLUBILITY; STRUVITE; URINE; WASTE TREATMENT; WASTEWATER;

AGRICULTURAL LAND; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; PH MEASUREMENT; PRECIPITATION; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SEWAGE EFFLUENT; SOLUBILITY; URINALYSIS; URINARY EXCRETION; WASTE WATER; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

EID: 79959436605     PISSN: 09593330     EISSN: 1479487X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09593330.2010.510537     Document Type: Article

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