Added-value from innovative value chains by establishing nutrient cycles via struvite

Phosphorus recovery as struvite from farm, municipal and industrial waste: Feedstock suitability, methods and pre-treatments

“…This also creates suitable conditions for struvite formation. In a recent study by Maab et al (2014), production of struvite in a wastewater treatment plant and its application as fertilizer, added value to the process for both operator and end users.…”

Fuzzy multi-footprint optimisation (FMFO) for synthesis of a sustainable value chain: Malaysian sago industry

“…As reported in previous works (De Souza and D'Agosto, 2013;Graef et al, 2014;;Maaß et al, 2014;Oguttu et al, 2014;Ponte et al, 2014;Sawhney et al, 2015), the concept of value chain has been extended to various industries. However, none of the existing research literature focuses on development of a sustainable value chain for the sago industry.…”

“…This concept has been widely applied in various industries, such as, meat and food processing (Graef et al, 2014;Sosnicki and Newman, 2010), aquaculture (Macfadyen et al, 2012;Ndanga et al, 2013;Ponte et al, 2014), cement production (De Souza and D'Agosto, 2013), poultry farming (Khaleda, 2013;Oguttu et al, 2014), wastewater treatment (Maaß et al, 2014), solar power generation (Olson, 2014;Sawhney et al, 2015), etc. Due to the growing global concern for sustainable development, the concept of the value chain has been further extended in recent research works towards the development of sustainable value chains (O'Rourke, 2014).…”

Cold-Chain Systems in China and Value-Chain Analysis

“…Besides, a conceptual model for the scrap tire reverse supply chain was proposed and the value-chain analysis method was applied to the scrap tire reverse supply chain (de Souza & D'Agosto, 2013). It was also shown that establishing nutrient cycles may solve the problem of efficient management of nutrients and lead to innovative added-value chains with a higher added-value (Maaß, Grundmann, & Und Polach, 2014). The material flow and value-chain analysis method was used to quantitatively analyze the value flow of iron resources in China (Yan & Wang, 2014).…”