Toward Resource Recovery from Wastewater: Extraction of Phosphorus from Digested Sludge Using a Hybrid Forward Osmosis-Membrane Distillation Process

Environmental Science and Technology Letters

Volumn 1, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 191-195

  Xie, Ming ^a   Nghiem, Long D ^a   Price, William E ^a   Elimelech, Menachem ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG   (Australia)

^b Yale University   (United States)

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EID: 84969157685     PISSN: None     EISSN: 23288930     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ez400189z     Document Type: Article

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