Macro-nutrients recovery from liquid waste as a sustainable resource for production of recovered mineral fertilizer: Uncovering alternative options to sustain global food security cost-effectively

Śniatała, Bogna; Kurniawan, Tonni Agustiono; Sobotka, Dominika; Mąkinia, Jacek; Othman, Mohd Hafiz Dzarfan

doi:10.1016/j.scitotenv.2022.159283

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“…They are also environmentally friendly as their exchangeable ions (Ca 2+ , Na + , and K + ) are relatively benign. [19] Natural porous minerals like zeolites, [123,169] diatomite, [170] and palygorskite [171] have frequently been reported for nutrient recovery, [172] among which natural zeolites garner the most interest due to their high cation-exchange capacity and their molecular sieving properties. [173] Clay minerals like halloysite, kaolinite, bentonite, montmorillonite, muscovite, illite, attapulgite, and modified natural and synthetic clays have also demonstrated their potential for the removal of critical metals.…”

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“…Synthetic ion-exchange resins (IERs) have shown great potential in resource recovery, especially for resource extraction and preconcentration, in part due to their commercial availability and their versatility to extract different charged species in water. [123,124] There are various types of mature IER sorbents available in the market with distinct surface properties suitable for different targets. [125] For example, Du et al [126] used modified-Dowex M4195 resin to remove both phosphate and nitrate from water.…”

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Material Design Strategies for Recovery of Critical Resources from Water

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Population growth, urbanization, and decarbonization efforts are collectively straining the supply of limited resources that are necessary to produce batteries, electronics, chemicals, fertilizers, and other important products. Securing the supply chains of these critical resources via the development of separation technologies for their recovery represents a major global challenge to ensure stability and security. Surface water, groundwater, and wastewater are emerging as potential new sources to bolster these supply chains. Recently, a variety of material‐based technologies have been developed and employed for separations and resource recovery in water. Judicious selection and design of these materials to tune their properties for targeting specific solutes is central to realizing the potential of water as a source for critical resources. Here, the materials that are developed for membranes, sorbents, catalysts, electrodes, and interfacial solar steam generators that demonstrate promise for applications in critical resource recovery are reviewed. In addition, a critical perspective is offered on the grand challenges and key research directions that need to be addressed to improve their practical viability.

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“…SDG 2 aims to end hunger, achieve food security, and to improve nutrition, in addition to promoting sustainable agriculture. A 2023 paper reviewing nutrient recovery for sustainable food security observes that nutrient management is broadly related to 16 of the 17 SDGs (Śniatała et al, 2023).…”

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Biochar integrated reactive filtration of wastewater for P removal and recovery, micropollutant catalytic oxidation, and negative CO₂e: Process operation and mechanism

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et al. 2023

Water Environment Research

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Biochar (BC) use in water treatment is a promising approach that can simultaneously help address societal needs of clean water, food security, and climate change mitigation. However, novel BC water treatment technology approaches require operational testing in field pilot‐scale scenarios to advance their technology readiness assessment. Therefore, the objective of this study is to evaluate the system performance of BC integrated into hydrous ferric oxide reactive filtration (Fe‐BC‐RF) with and without catalytic ozonation (CatOx) process in laboratory and field pilot‐scale scenarios. For this investigation, Fe‐BC‐RF and Fe‐CatOx‐BC‐RF pilot‐scale trials were conducted on synthetic lake water variants and at three municipal water resource recovery facilities (WRRFs) at process flows of 0.05 and 0.6 L/s, respectively. Three native and two iron‐modified BCs were used in these studies. The commercially available reactive filtration process (Fe‐RF without BC) had 96%–98% total phosphorus (TP) removal from 0.075‐ and 0.22‐mg/L TP, as orthophosphate process influent in these trials. With BC integration, phosphorus removal yielded 94%–98% with the same process‐influent conditions. In WRRF field pilot‐scale studies, the Fe‐CatOx‐BC‐RF process removed 84%–99% of influent total phosphorus concentrations that varied from 0.12 to 8.1 mg/L. Nutrient analysis on BC showed that the recovered BC used in the pilot‐scale studies had an increase in TP from its native concentration, with the Fe‐amended BC showing better P recovery at 110% than its unmodified state, which was 16%. Lastly, the field WRRF Fe‐CatOx‐BC‐RF process studies showed successful destructive removals at >90% for more than 20 detected micropollutants, thus addressing a critical human health and environmental water quality concern. The research demonstrated that integration of BC into Fe‐CatOx‐RF for micropollutant removal, disinfection, and nutrient recovery is an encouraging tertiary water treatment technology that can address sustainable phosphorus recycling needs and the potential for carbon‐negative operation.Practitioner Points A pilot‐scale hydrous ferric oxide reactive sand filtration process integrating biochar injection typically yields >90% total phosphorus removal to ultralow levels. Biochar, modified with iron, recovers phosphorus from wastewater, creating a P/N nutrient upcycled soil amendment. Addition of ozone to the process stream enables biochar‐iron‐ozone catalytic oxidation demonstrating typically excellent (>90%) micropollutant destructive removals for the compounds tested. A companion paper to this work explores life cycle assessment (LCA) and techno‐economic analysis (TEA) to explore biochar water treatment integrated reactive filtration impacts, costs, and readiness. Biochar use can aid in long‐term carbon sequestration by reducing the carbon footprint of advanced water treatment in a dose‐dependent manner, including enabling an overall carbon‐negative process.

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“…The latter options generate closed loops in which resources derived from waste (such as materials and energy) remain in the economy for as long as possible so that GHG emissions (related to the supply of virgin materials or energy generation) can be partially or totally avoided. The sustainable recycling of spent lithium-ion batteries (Du et al, 2022), recovery of precious metals and nutrients from wastewater (Ghomi et al, 2020;Sniatala et al, 2023); extraction of chemicals from organic residues (Espro et al, 2021), and biofuel production (Malode et al, 2021) are instances of the ongoing research conducted to enhance the circularity of WM systems.…”

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Boosting the circularity of waste management: pretreated mature landfill leachate enhances the anaerobic digestion of market waste

2023

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Adequate waste management is essential not only to ensure healthy living conditions but also to mitigate climate change. Accordingly, the research on developing strategies to boost the circularity of waste management systems is ongoing. In this context, two waste streams are concurrently managed to recover energy and materials in the present study. Specifically, real leachate collected from a full-scale mature landfill site was preliminarily treated through active filtration to remove inhibitory substances partially and then tested, at the laboratory scale, as a nutrient solution for semi-continuous anaerobic digestion of a carbonaceous substrate represented by market waste. The results demonstrate that, at an organic loading rate of 1.0 gVS∙L-1∙d-1, the process was impossible without using the nutrient solution, while the nitrogen present in the pretreated leachate could balance the carbon content of the market waste and provide the system with the necessary buffering capacity, ensuring process stability. The average methane yield (approximately 0.29 NL∙gVS-1) was satisfactory and consistent with the literature. Despite the increases in both the organic loading rate (up to 1.5 gVS∙L-1∙d-1) and volume of added pretreated leachate (up to 100% of the dilution medium), the process remained stable with a slightly lower methane yield of 0.21 NL∙gVS-1, thanks to nitrogen supplementation. The potential use of produced methane as a renewable energy source and residual digestate as fertilizer would close the loop of managing these waste streams.

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Macro-nutrients recovery from liquid waste as a sustainable resource for production of recovered mineral fertilizer: Uncovering alternative options to sustain global food security cost-effectively

Cited by 58 publications

References 274 publications

Material Design Strategies for Recovery of Critical Resources from Water

Material Design Strategies for Recovery of Critical Resources from Water

Biochar integrated reactive filtration of wastewater for P removal and recovery, micropollutant catalytic oxidation, and negative CO₂e: Process operation and mechanism

Boosting the circularity of waste management: pretreated mature landfill leachate enhances the anaerobic digestion of market waste

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Macro-nutrients recovery from liquid waste as a sustainable resource for production of recovered mineral fertilizer: Uncovering alternative options to sustain global food security cost-effectively

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Material Design Strategies for Recovery of Critical Resources from Water

Material Design Strategies for Recovery of Critical Resources from Water

Biochar integrated reactive filtration of wastewater for P removal and recovery, micropollutant catalytic oxidation, and negative CO2e: Process operation and mechanism

Boosting the circularity of waste management: pretreated mature landfill leachate enhances the anaerobic digestion of market waste

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Biochar integrated reactive filtration of wastewater for P removal and recovery, micropollutant catalytic oxidation, and negative CO₂e: Process operation and mechanism