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Resource Recovery

In recent decades, the wastewater sector has moved away from the idea of wastewater treatment plants as waste disposal facilities, instead envisioning these plants as water resource recovery facilities (WRRFs). WRRFs can produce clean water, recover nutrients (such as phosphorus and nitrogen), and potentially reduce fossil fuel consumption through the production and use of renewable energy.

For more information, contact Jeff Moeller.

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Biological Nutrient Removal (BNR)
Biosolids
Energy Optimization
Nutrients
Project 5091

Developing a Framework for Quantifying Energy Optimization Reporting

$441,825
Completed

Project Highlights

Energy projects within the water sector are often discretionary and initiated based on projected annual energy savings metrics. The water sector lacks standard energy savings estimation procedures, as well as measurement and verification approaches and procedures that adhere to the...

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Principal Investigator
Nancy
Andrews
Research Manager
Mr. Ashwin Dhanasekar

Recent Updates

Project 5141
Data-Driven Process Control for Maximizing ...

Reporting Period: October 2021 - March 2022. Project work to date has focused on completing the...

Project Update
08/05/2022
Project 5141
Data-Driven Process Control for Maximizing ...

Reporting Period: April – October 2023

Project Update
12/12/2023
Project 5141
Data-Driven Process Control for Maximizing ...

Reporting Period: April – October 2022

Project Update
02/28/2023
Project 5271
Balancing Carbon Management, Energy Management, Energy...

Reporting Period: June 2024 – November 2024

Project Update
02/04/2025
Project 5220
Sewer Methane Methods for Everyone

Reporting Period: April 1, 2024 - June 1, 2024

Project Update
09/04/2024
Project 5266
Determining the Role of Spectral Imaging as an Early Warning System for...
Project Update
07/16/2025
Project 4914
Utility Responses to Cyanobacterial/Cyanotoxin Events: Case Studies and...

Reporting Period: December 2021 – April 2022. The research team interviewed individual participating utilities remotely, using...

Project Update
08/19/2022
Project 4914
Utility Responses to Cyanobacterial/Cyanotoxin Events; Case Studies and...

Reporting Period: December 2020 – March 2021. During this project period, the planned in-person World Café...

Project Update
05/28/2021
Project 4914
Utility Responses to Cyanobacterial/Cyanotoxin Events: Case Studies and...

Reporting Period: June 1, 2019 – September 1, 2020. During this period, the team created an...

Project Update
03/19/2021
Project 5189
Quantifying the Impact of Artificial Intelligence/Machine...

Reporting Period: Month January 2025 – April 2025

Project Update
05/23/2025

Resources

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News

Interview with Dr. William Tarpeh

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By Julia Dinmore, The Water Research Foundation
12/12/2023

Turning Waste into Gold with Dr. William Tarpeh A rare few people end up in the career they decided for themselves as children. More often, the question “What do you...

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