Ion-exchange softening of human urine to control precipitation

Environmental Progress and Sustainable Energy

Volumn 33, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 564-571

  Boyer, Treavor H ^a   Taylor, Kyle ^a   Reed, Alesandra ^a   Smith, Daniel ^a  

^a J Crayton Pruitt Family Department of Biomedical Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

calcium; ion exchange; magnesium; phosphate; polymeric resin

Indexed keywords

BODY FLUIDS; CALCIUM; EXPERIMENTS; HYDROLYSIS; ION EXCHANGE RESINS; IONS; MAGNESIUM; MINERALS; PHOSPHATES; PLUMBING; PRECIPITATION (CHEMICAL); SOURCE SEPARATION;

CATION EXCHANGE RESINS; ION EXCHANGE REACTIONS; MAINTENANCE REQUIREMENT; NUTRIENT RECOVERY; POLYMERIC RESIN; PRECIPITATION REACTION; SELECTIVE REMOVAL; SYNTHETIC URINE;

ION EXCHANGE;

EID: 84899093682     PISSN: 19447442     EISSN: 19447450     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ep.11825     Document Type: Article

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