Resource Recovery from Wastewater by Biological Technologies: Opportunities, Challenges, and Prospects

Limits in resource availability are driving a change in current societal production systems, changing the focus from residues treatment, such as wastewater treatment, toward resource recovery. Biotechnological processes offer an economic and versatile way to concentrate and transform resources from waste/wastewater into valuable products, which is a prerequisite for the technological development of a cradle-to-cradle bio-based economy. This review identifies emerging technologies that enable resource recovery across the wastewater treatment cycle. As such, bioenergy in the form of biohydrogen (by photo and dark fermentation processes) and biogas (during anaerobic digestion processes) have been classic targets,…

• CR
  Cooperative Research Centre for Water Sensitive Cities
• UO
  University of Queensland
• CR
  Cooperative Research Centres, Australian Government Department of Industry
• MD
  Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad

  Awards: CTQ2014-54563-C3, CTQ2014-54563-C3-1-R, CTQ2014-54563-C3-1