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Feasibility of struvite recovery process for fertilizer industry: A study of financial and economic analysis

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In this article, a feasibility analysis of the struvite recovery process for a full-scale fertilizer production industry with a 500m 3 /day capacity is presented, and the experimental conditions and chemical combinations that will allow the receiving environment discharge standard for ammonium nitrogen are optimized by taking into account a large number of economic and operating parameters.
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This article is published in Journal of Cleaner Production.The article was published on 2017-05-20. It has received 81 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Struvite.

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A comprehensive review on microbial fuel cell technologies: Processes, utilization, and advanced developments in electrodes and membranes

TL;DR: In this paper, the development and advancements of electrode and membrane materials for increasing the microbial fuel cell performances in recent years have been discussed and reviewed and discussed the different categories of electrode (anode and cathode) materials with various structural, dimensional, compositions and integrations.
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Transformation of Biomass Waste into Sustainable Organic Fertilizers

TL;DR: In this paper, the sustainable transformation of various types of biomass waste such as animal manure, sewage sludge, municipal solid waste, and food waste, into organic fertilizers and their impact on waste minimization and agricultural enhancement is discussed.
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New frontiers from removal to recycling of nitrogen and phosphorus from wastewater in the Circular Economy.

TL;DR: This paper reviews state-of-the-art of nutrient recovery, focusing on frontier technological advances and economic and environmental innovation perspectives.
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Anaerobic digestion of cheese whey: Energetic and nutritional potential for the dairy sector in developing countries

TL;DR: The energetic, agricultural and economic potentials, evidence that AD process is a feasible alternative for cheese whey treatment is found.
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New insights into the interaction between heavy metals and struvite: Struvite as platform for heterogeneous nucleation of heavy metal hydroxide

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors revealed the association of kinds of heavy metals, as possible substances in the wastewater, with the struvite and showed that the presence of struvites can enhance the heavy metal precipitation rate under all pH values.
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Potential phosphorus recovery by struvite formation.

TL;DR: A mass balance was conducted at full scale across the whole sewage treatment plant in order to identify a stream to conduct bench-scale struvite crystallisation studies, and the most suitable stream was identified as the centrifuge liquors.
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Struvite precipitation in anaerobic swine lagoon liquid: effect of pH and Mg:P ratio and determination of rate constant.

TL;DR: The results indicate that induced struvite formation is a technically feasible method to remove N and P from swine lagoon liquid and it may allow swine producers to recover nutrients for off-farm sale.
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Production of slow release crystal fertilizer from wastewaters through struvite crystallization – A review

TL;DR: In this paper, a review of the studies conducted on the removal and recovery of phosphorus and nitrogen from wastewaters through struvite crystallization is presented, which deals with the principles and concept of struvites nucleation, crystal growth and the factors that affect on the struvitsite quality.
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An economic evaluation of phosphorus recovery as struvite from digester supernatant

TL;DR: If struvite were to be recovered from wastewater treatment plants worldwide, 0.63 million tons of phosphorus (as P(2)O(5)) could be harvested annually, reducing phosphate rock mining by 1.6%.
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Low-cost struvite production using source-separated urine in Nepal

TL;DR: Calculations showed that collecting the struvite and calcium phosphate precipitated spontaneously due to urea hydrolysis could increase the overall phosphate recovery by at least 40% and could be important to optimize the process.
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