articleThe Science of The Total EnvironmentJul 23, 2016HYBRID OA

Phosphorus recovery from municipal wastewater: An integrated comparative technological, environmental and economic assessment of P recovery technologies

LELukas EgleHRHelmut RechbergerJKJörg KrampeMZMatthias Zessner

TU Wien

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Abstract

Phosphorus (P) is an essential and limited resource. Municipal wastewater is a promising source of P via reuse and could be used to replace P derived from phosphate rocks. The agricultural use of sewage sludge is restricted by legislation or is not practiced in several European countries due to environmental risks posed by organic micropollutants and pathogens. Several technologies have been developed in recent years to recover wastewater P. However, these technologies target different P-containing flows in wastewater treatment plants (effluent, digester supernatant, sewage sludge, and sewage sludge ash), use diverse engineering approaches and differ greatly with respect to P recycling rate, potential of…

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Keywords
  • Sewage treatment
  • Effluent
  • Wastewater
  • Environmental science
  • Sewage sludge
  • Sewage
  • Resource recovery
  • Reuse
UN Sustainable Development Goals
  • Clean water and sanitation
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