Recovery of Nutrients From Wastewaters Using Microalgae

Maximizing recovery of energy and nutrients from urban wastewaters

Historically, UWWs (urban wastewaters) that contain high levels of organic carbon, N (nitrogen), and P (phosphorous) have been considered an environmental burden and have been treated at the expense of significant energy input. With the advent of new pollution abatement technologies, UWWs are now being regarded as a renewable resource from which, useful chemicals and energy could be harvested. ...

Advanced Treatment of Meat Processing Wastewaters Using Microalgae

Introduction: Effluents of Meat processing are one of the untreated wastewaters containing high volumes of polluted components even after the primary and secondary treatments. The high cost of using the advanced treatment methods of the wastewaters has led the industry owners to release them in the nature without effective removal of nitrogen and phosphorus. In this study, an economic advanced ...

Removal of pharmaceuticals from industrial wastewaters by microalgae culture

Recovery of Metals from Sludges and Wastewaters

This report presents information on the state-of-the-art of metals recovery technologies to assist in identifying waste-management options for metalbearing sludges and wastewaters that may be regulated under the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA). Only a few of the technologies addressed In this report (e.g., electrowinnlng, high-temperature metals recovery (HTMR]) are directly appli...

Efficiency of Microalgae Scenedesmus in the Removal of Nitrogen from Municipal Wastewaters

Background: Due to the high content of nitrogen in the municipal wastewaters, this study evaluated the efficiency of Scenedesmus as an important microalgae in the removal of nitrate from wastewaters and its application as an appropriate culture medium. As algae have high resistance to temperature and pH changes, they can absorb low concentrations of nutrients and need simple low-cost technolog...