Recovery of nitrogen and phosphorus from human urine using membrane and precipitation process
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596-602
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Journal of Environmental Management, Volume 247
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The nitrogen (N) and phosphorus (P) contents in human urine have been recovered using struvite precipitation and N-stripping techniques. Struvite precipitation technique recovers mainly phosphorus whereas N-stripping technique only recovers nitrogen. In this study, we developed an NPharvest technique which recovered both nitrogen and phosphorus separately in the same process, enabling their use independently. The technique used Ca(OH)2 to increase the pH of urine converting ammonium into NH3 gas and simultaneously precipitating P with Ca. The NH3 gas is passed through a gas permeable hydrophobic membrane (GPHM) and reacts with H2SO4 forming ammonium sulfate. Our result showed that more than 98% (w/w) of N and P can be harvested from urine in 8 h at 30 °C. The harvested ammonium sulfate contained 19% (w/w) N, and the sediment contained 1–2% (w/w) P. The extraction of N and P from 1 m3 of urine could give a profit of 1.5 €.Description
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Pradhan , S K , Mikola , A , Heinonen-Tanski , H & Vahala , R 2019 , ' Recovery of nitrogen and phosphorus from human urine using membrane and precipitation process ' , Journal of Environmental Management , vol. 247 , pp. 596-602 . https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvman.2019.06.046