Towards a Renewable Future: Assessing Resource Recovery as a Viable Treatment Alternative – Innovative Approaches for Performing Extractive Nutrient Recovery

This report presents findings from research aimed at enhancing recovery of nutrient products from water resource recovery facilities (WRRFs). It provides insight into a strategy that can be used for boosting phosphorus recovery potential via crystallization in a two-stage anaerobic digestion configuration and demonstrates that electrodialysis can be a viable nutrient recovery technology and identifies key future research requirements. The findings of this research can provide a basis for utilities to communicate with regulatory agencies regarding the effluent permits development and regulation rationale changes to ensure larger scale and overall net benefits to water quality. Published by WE&RF. 50 pages. Online PDF. (2016)

Originally funded as WERF project NTRY1R12c.