title: Insight into biological phosphate recovery from sewage.
abstract: The world's increasing population means that more food production is required. A more sustainable supply of fertilizers mainly consisting of phosphate is needed. Due to the rising consumption of scarce resources and limited natural supply of phosphate, the recovery of phosphate and their re-use has potentially high market value. Sewage has high potential to recover a large amount of phosphate in a circular economy approach. This paper focuses on utilization of biological process integrated with various subsequent processes to concentrate and recycle phosphate which are derived from liquid and sludge phases. The phosphate accumulation and recovery are discussed in terms of mechanism and governing parameters, recovery efficiency, application at plant-scale and economy.
authors.affiliation: Centre for Technology in Water and Wastewater, School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Technology Sydney, Sydney, NWS 2007, Australia.
authors.forename: Yuanyao
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Ye
authors.affiliation: Centre for Technology in Water and Wastewater, School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Technology Sydney, Sydney, NWS 2007, Australia; Department of Environmental and Municipal Engineering, Tianjin Chengjian University, Jinjing Road 26, Tianjin 300384, China. Electronic address: ngohuuhao121@gmail.com.
authors.forename: Huu Hao
authors.initials: HH
authors.lastname: Ngo
authors.affiliation: Centre for Technology in Water and Wastewater, School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Technology Sydney, Sydney, NWS 2007, Australia.
authors.forename: Wenshan
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Guo
authors.affiliation: Centre for Technology in Water and Wastewater, School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Technology Sydney, Sydney, NWS 2007, Australia.
authors.forename: Yiwen
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Liu
authors.affiliation: Department of Environmental and Municipal Engineering, Tianjin Chengjian University, Jinjing Road 26, Tianjin 300384, China.
authors.forename: Xinbo
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Zhang
authors.affiliation: Department of Environmental and Municipal Engineering, Tianjin Chengjian University, Jinjing Road 26, Tianjin 300384, China.
authors.forename: Jianbo
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Guo
authors.affiliation: State Key Laboratory of Pollution Control and Resources Reuse, College of Environmental Science and Engineering, Tongji University, Shanghai 200092, China.
authors.forename: Bing-Jie
authors.initials: BJ
authors.lastname: Ni
authors.affiliation: Department of Environmental Energy and Engineering, Kyonggi University, 442-760, Republic of Korea.
authors.forename: Soon Woong
authors.initials: SW
authors.lastname: Chang
authors.affiliation: Department of Environmental Energy and Engineering, Kyonggi University, 442-760, Republic of Korea.
authors.forename: Dinh Duc
authors.initials: DD
authors.lastname: Nguyen
mesh_terms: D005308:Fertilizers; D010710:Phosphates; D059027:Recycling / Q000379:methods*; D012722:Sewage / Q000737:chemistry*
chemical_list: D005308:Fertilizers; D010710:Phosphates; D012722:Sewage
keywords: Anaerobic digester supernatant; Biological process; Phosphate recovery; Sewage; Sewage sludge