Insight into biological phosphate recovery from sewage

Yuanyao Ye; Huu Hao Ngo; Wenshan Guo; Yiwen Liu; Xinbo Zhang; Jianbo Guo; Bing-Jie Ni; Soon Woong Chang; Dinh Duc Nguyen

doi:10.1016/j.biortech.2016.07.003

Insight into biological phosphate recovery from sewage

Bioresour Technol. 2016 Oct:218:874-81. doi: 10.1016/j.biortech.2016.07.003. Epub 2016 Jul 12.

Authors

Yuanyao Ye¹, Huu Hao Ngo², Wenshan Guo¹, Yiwen Liu¹, Xinbo Zhang³, Jianbo Guo³, Bing-Jie Ni⁴, Soon Woong Chang⁵, Dinh Duc Nguyen⁵

Affiliations

¹ Centre for Technology in Water and Wastewater, School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of Technology Sydney, Sydney, NWS 2007, Australia.
² 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.
³ Department of Environmental and Municipal Engineering, Tianjin Chengjian University, Jinjing Road 26, Tianjin 300384, China.
⁴ State Key Laboratory of Pollution Control and Resources Reuse, College of Environmental Science and Engineering, Tongji University, Shanghai 200092, China.
⁵ Department of Environmental Energy and Engineering, Kyonggi University, 442-760, Republic of Korea.

PMID: 27434305
DOI: 10.1016/j.biortech.2016.07.003

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.

Keywords: Anaerobic digester supernatant; Biological process; Phosphate recovery; Sewage; Sewage sludge.

MeSH terms

Fertilizers*
Phosphates*
Recycling / methods*
Sewage / chemistry*

Substances

Fertilizers
Phosphates
Sewage