Business models and economic approaches for nutrient recovery from wastewater and fecal sludge

Wastewater: Economic Asset in an Urbanizing World

Volumn , Issue , 2015, Pages 247-268

  Otoo, Miriam ^a   Drechsel, Pay ^a   Hanjra, Munir A ^b  

^a INTERNATIONAL WATER MANAGEMENT INSTITUTE   (Sri Lanka)

^b INTERNATIONAL WATER MANAGEMENT INSTITUTE   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Composting; Cost recovery; Fecal sludge; Nitrogen; Nutrient recovery; Phosphorus; Private sector; Struvite; Value proposition

Indexed keywords

COMMERCE; COMPOSTING; COSTS; DEPRECIATION; FERTILIZERS; NITROGEN; PHOSPHORUS; RECOVERY; SANITATION; SLUDGE DISPOSAL; WASTE DISPOSAL; WASTEWATER DISPOSAL; WASTEWATER TREATMENT;

COST RECOVERY; FECAL SLUDGE; NUTRIENT RECOVERY; PRIVATE SECTORS; STRUVITES; VALUE PROPOSITION;

NUTRIENTS;

EID: 84943327834     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-94-017-9545-6_13     Document Type: Chapter

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