Technologies to recover nutrients from waste streams: A critical review

Critical Reviews in Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 45, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 385-427

  Mehta, Chirag M ^a   Khunjar, Wendell O ^b   Nguyen, Vivi ^b   Tait, Stephan ^a   Batstone, Damien J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b Vice President Residuals Group Practice Leader   (United States)

Author keywords

Nitrogen; nutrient recovery technologies; phosphorus; potassium

Indexed keywords

ANAEROBIC DIGESTION; CRITICAL CURRENT DENSITY (SUPERCONDUCTIVITY); DIALYSIS MEMBRANES; EXTRACTION; GAS PERMEABLE MEMBRANES; LIQUEFIED GASES; NITROGEN; NITROGEN FERTILIZERS; PHOSPHORUS; POTASSIUM; PRECIPITATION (CHEMICAL); RECOVERY; WATER POLLUTION;

AGRICULTURE APPLICATIONS; APPROPRIATE TECHNOLOGIES; BARRIERS FOR ADOPTIONS; CHEMICAL PRECIPITATION; EXTRACTION TECHNOLOGY; NUTRIENT RECOVERY; PHYSICO-CHEMICAL MECHANISMS; THERMOCHEMICAL TREATMENTS;

NUTRIENTS;

NITROGEN; PHOSPHORUS; POTASSIUM; STRUVITE;

CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DISCHARGE; NITROGEN; NUTRIENT USE; POLLUTION CONTROL; POTASSIUM; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; WASTEWATER; WATER TREATMENT;

AGRICULTURE; AIR POLLUTION; ALGA; ANAEROBIC DIGESTION; BIOLEACHING; CRYSTALLIZATION; ELECTRODIALYSIS; EXTRACTION; NONHUMAN; NUTRIENT; PRECIPITATION; PROKARYOTE; REVIEW; SEPARATION TECHNIQUE; STREAM (RIVER); TECHNOLOGY; WASTE MANAGEMENT;

ALGAE; PROKARYOTA;

EID: 84920091917     PISSN: 10643389     EISSN: 15476537     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10643389.2013.866621     Document Type: Review

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