Life-cycle cost and environmental assessment of decentralized nitrogen recovery using ion exchange from source-separated urine through spatial modeling

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 51, Issue 21, 2017, Pages 12061-12071

  Kavvada, Olga ^a,b   Tarpeh, William A ^a,b   Horvath, Arpad ^a,b   Nelson, Kara L ^a,b  

^a Berkeley   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BODY FLUIDS; COSTS; EFFLUENT TREATMENT; EFFLUENTS; GAS EMISSIONS; GREENHOUSE GASES; ION EXCHANGE; LIFE CYCLE; NITROGEN FERTILIZERS; RESINS; WASTEWATER TREATMENT;

DECENTRALIZED APPROACH; ECONOMIC AND ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENTS; ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT; FERTILIZER PRODUCTION; LIFE CYCLE PERSPECTIVES; NITRIFICATION-DENITRIFICATION; NITROGEN CONCENTRATIONS; WASTEWATER EFFLUENTS;

SOURCE SEPARATION;

AMMONIA; AMMONIUM NITRATE; CARBON; NITROGEN; RESIN; SULFURIC ACID;

CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); COST ANALYSIS; ECONOMIC CONDITIONS; ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS; GREENHOUSE GAS; ION EXCHANGE; LIFE CYCLE ANALYSIS; NITROGEN; RESIN; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; URBAN AREA; URINE; WASTEWATER; WASTEWATER TREATMENT; WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANT;

ADSORPTION; ARTICLE; CARBON FOOTPRINT; CARBON SOURCE; DENITRIFICATION; ION EXCHANGE; LIFE CYCLE; NITRIFICATION; REDUCTION (CHEMISTRY); URBAN AREA; URINALYSIS; ANIMAL; CALIFORNIA; CITY; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; WASTE WATER;

CALIFORNIA; SAN FRANCISCO [CALIFORNIA]; UNITED STATES;

ANIMALS; CITIES; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; ION EXCHANGE; NITROGEN; SAN FRANCISCO; WASTE WATER;

EID: 85038810727     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.7b02244     Document Type: Article

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