Probabilistic evaluation of integrating resource recovery into wastewater treatment to improve environmental sustainability

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 112, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 1630-1635

  Wang, Xu ^a   McCarty, Perry L ^b   Liu, Junxin ^a   Ren, Nan Qi ^c   Lee, Duu Jong ^d   Yu, Han Qing ^e   Qian, Yi ^f   Qu, Jiuhui ^a  

^a RESEARCH CENTER FOR ECO ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES   (China)

^b Stanford University   (United States)

^c HARBIN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^d NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

^e UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

^f TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Net environment benefit; Paradigm shift; Resource recovery; Sustainability assessment; Wastewater treatment

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIOENERGY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DEVELOPED COUNTRY; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; EFFLUENT STANDARD; ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; URBAN AREA; WASTE WATER MANAGEMENT; WASTE WATER RECYCLING; WATER SUPPLY; PROBABILITY; WASTE WATER; WATER MANAGEMENT;

WASTE WATER;

PROBABILITY; WASTE WATER; WATER PURIFICATION;

EID: 84922551872     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1410715112     Document Type: Article

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