How Does Scale of Implementation Impact the Environmental Sustainability of Wastewater Treatment Integrated with Resource Recovery?

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 50, Issue 13, 2016, Pages 6680-6689

  Cornejo, Pablo K ^a   Zhang, Qiong ^a   Mihelcic, James R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON FOOTPRINT; ECONOMICS; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; ENVIRONMENTAL TECHNOLOGY; EUTROPHICATION; LIFE CYCLE; NATURAL RESOURCES; NUTRIENTS; RECLAMATION; RECOVERY; WASTEWATER RECLAMATION; WASTEWATER TREATMENT; WATER CONSERVATION; WATER RECYCLING; WATER TREATMENT;

ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY; EUTROPHICATION POTENTIALS; LIFE CYCLE ASSESSMENT (LCA); RESOURCE CONSUMPTION; SUSTAINABILITY INDICATORS; TECHNOLOGY SELECTION; WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANTS; WATER RECLAMATION FACILITIES;

SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT;

CENTRALIZATION; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; EUTROPHICATION; LIFE CYCLE ANALYSIS; RECYCLING; RESOURCE MANAGEMENT; RESOURCE USE; SUSTAINABILITY; WASTE TREATMENT; WASTEWATER;

ARTICLE; CARBON FOOTPRINT; CENTRALIZATION; ENERGY; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY; EUTROPHICATION; LIFE CYCLE ASSESSMENT; NUTRIENT; RECYCLING; RESOURCE MANAGEMENT; SEPTIC TANK; WASTE WATER MANAGEMENT; WASTE WATER TREATMENT PLANT; SEWAGE; WASTE WATER; WATER MANAGEMENT;

WASTE WATER;

EUTROPHICATION; RECYCLING; WASTE DISPOSAL, FLUID; WASTE WATER; WATER PURIFICATION;

EID: 84978842899     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.5b05055     Document Type: Article

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