Nutrient Recovery from Wastewater: Opportunities, Challenges and Future Prospects
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Social Ecology and Sustainability".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (21 January 2022) | Viewed by 710
Special Issue Editors
Interests: nutrient removal and recovery; removal of micropollutants and microplastics and control of GHG emissions in municipal wastewater treatment
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals
Interests: advanced oxidation for water treatment processes; membrane technology; adsorption; nutrient recovery from wastewater and harnessing recycled waste for environmental applications
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
With the progressive development in recovery technologies, wastewater is not perceived as a burden anymore; rather, it is viewed as a source of energy and recycled nutrient. The main recoverable constituents of wastewater are carbon, nitrogen, and phosphorous. These constituents can be utilized within the wastewater treatment processes or extracted as recycled materials for other applications. While this concept is attractive from an environmental point of view and possibly from an economic standpoint, it does not easily apply without its challenges. For this concept to progress further, it is important to prove its worth, and this can be achieved by conducting in-depth investigations on energy and cost requirement associated with recovery techniques on large-scale applications. In addition, recovery technologies are still in the stage of development and they need more optimization to reach a level of readiness that matches the industrial requirements. Given the increasing importance of cutting down emissions from wastewater, it is also essential to determine the scale of the effect of nutrient recovery on GHG reduction. What would also contribute to promoting the nutrient recovery is testing the suitability of the recycled materials for various industrial applications.
We are excited to invite you to contribute to this Special Issue with your valuable research observations and assessment for nutrient recovery technologies. The aim of this issue is to serve as a platform for collating updates on the development of nutrient recovery in applied research. Such information is important and could revolutionize the wastewater treatment industry. The main themes of this issue revolve around the recovery of carbon, nitrogen, and phosphorous and aspects pertaining to these processes, such as recovery efficiency, pre-treatment techniques, energy, cost, emissions, end-product quality, and the impact on downstream processes in wastewater treatment plants.
Prof. Dr. Anna Mikola
Dr. Raed A Al-Juboori
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- nitrogen recovery
- phosphorous recovery
- carbon recovery
- pre-treatment techniques
- GHG emission
- energy requirement
- product quality
- economic analysis
- down-stream effects
