The lifespan of cats with non-obstructive kidney stones is shortened compared with healthy cats indicating a need to reduce stone formation and minimize chronic kidney disease. The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of increasing dietary polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFA) on urine characteristics. Domestic-short-hair cats (n = 12; mean age 5.6 years) were randomized into two g...

Fluidized bed is commonly used for struvite (MgNH4PO4·6H2O) recovery from wastewater. However, effective methods are lacking to describe the properties of the millimeter-scale struvite pellets in the fluidized bed, with the consequence of not predicting and optimizing the granulation process effectively. In this work, swine wastewater was used as the medium for struvite recovery by using fluidi...

Ammonium, phosphorus, and potassium from wastewater treatment with a coexisting ion of calcium may be recovered simultaneously through struvite struvite-(K) crystallization. This paper presents the quantitative assessment impact ions on kinetics crystallization those crystals. Initial solutions containing dose levels Ca2+ pH 9 were set up for experiments in stirred laboratory at ambient tempera...

Livestock wastewater contains a large amount of nutrients that are available for recovery. In this study, a proof of concept process based on Forward Osmosis (FO) was proposed and investigated for in-situ formation of struvite from digested swine wastewater. This FO system took advantage of a drawback reverse solute flux (RSF) and used the reversed-fluxed Mg for struvite precipitation, thereby ...

Because of increased concern about surface water eutrophication from nutrient-enriched agricultural runoff, many swine producers are encouraged to decrease application rates of waste-based P. Precipitation and subsequent removal of magnesium ammonium phosphate (MgNH(4)PO(4) x 6H(2)O), commonly known as struvite, is a promising mechanism for N and P removal from anaerobic swine lagoon effluent. ...

A seven-year-old un-castrated male Shih Tzu dog was presented with signs of in appetence and dysuria for ten days. Abdominal ultrasonography noticed multiple mucosal projections, isoechoic a mildly thickened bladder wall sledge the urinary bladder. Urine analysis revealed pH 8.5, specific gravity 1.050, struvite crystals microbial culture yielded Staphycolocci Pseudomonas. Present communication...

Urolithiasis is defined as the formation of urolith or crystal in urinary tract caused by supersaturation urine. This study was conducted at PDHB drh Cucu Kartini S, dkk, Jakarta clinic. The data were taken from urinalysis test results 23 dogs which suffered crystaluria and stone examination 11 post cystotomy. Most affected breeds Shihtzu, Pug, Mini Pom, Corgi, Miniature Schnauzer, Golden Retri...