P-recovery in a pilot-scale struvite crystallisation reactor for source separated urine systems using seawater and magnesium chloride as magnesium sources.


Journal

The Science of the total environment
ISSN: 1879-1026
Titre abrégé: Sci Total Environ
Pays: Netherlands
ID NLM: 0330500

Informations de publication

Date de publication:
01 Jul 2019
Historique:
received: 21 01 2019
revised: 18 03 2019
accepted: 31 03 2019
pubmed: 8 4 2019
medline: 12 7 2019
entrez: 8 4 2019
Statut: ppublish

Résumé

Practical recovery of a non-renewable nutrient, such as phosphorus (P), is essential to support modern agriculture in the near future. The high P content of urine, makes it an attractive source for practicing the recovery of this crucial nutrient. This paper presents the experimental results at pilot-plant scale of struvite crystallisation from a source-separated urine stream using two different magnesium sources, namely magnesium chloride and seawater. The latter was chosen as sustainable option to perform P-recovery in coastal areas. Real seawater was used to assess in a more realistic way its efficiency to precipitate P as struvite, since its composition (with noticeable concentration of ions such as Ca

Identifiants

pubmed: 30954828
pii: S0048-9697(19)31501-3
doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2019.03.485
pii:
doi:

Substances chimiques

Water Pollutants, Chemical 0
Magnesium Chloride 02F3473H9O
Phosphorus 27YLU75U4W
Struvite AW3EJL1462

Types de publication

Journal Article

Langues

eng

Sous-ensembles de citation

IM

Pagination

88-96

Informations de copyright

Copyright © 2019 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

Auteurs

D Aguado (D)

CALAGUA - Unidad Mixta UV-UPV, Institut Universitari d'Investigació d'Enginyeria de l'Aigua i Medi Ambient - IIAMA, Universitat Politècnica de València, Camí de Vera s/n, 46022 Valencia, Spain. Electronic address: daaggar@hma.upv.es.

R Barat (R)

CALAGUA - Unidad Mixta UV-UPV, Institut Universitari d'Investigació d'Enginyeria de l'Aigua i Medi Ambient - IIAMA, Universitat Politècnica de València, Camí de Vera s/n, 46022 Valencia, Spain.

A Bouzas (A)

CALAGUA - Unidad Mixta UV-UPV, Departament d'Enginyeria Química, Universitat de València, Avinguda de la Universitat s/n, 46100 Burjassot, Valencia, Spain.

A Seco (A)

CALAGUA - Unidad Mixta UV-UPV, Departament d'Enginyeria Química, Universitat de València, Avinguda de la Universitat s/n, 46100 Burjassot, Valencia, Spain.

J Ferrer (J)

CALAGUA - Unidad Mixta UV-UPV, Institut Universitari d'Investigació d'Enginyeria de l'Aigua i Medi Ambient - IIAMA, Universitat Politècnica de València, Camí de Vera s/n, 46022 Valencia, Spain.

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