The authors conducted a life-cycle analysis and found that air-stripping ammonia from wastewater treatment plants to make nitrogen-rich fertilizer produces six times fewer GHG emissions than the ...

One promising possibility, recently raised by some water utility providers, is gleaning nitrogen from the waste ammonia pulled from water during treatment. "Recovering nitrogen from wastewater ...

The NPDES Permit issued to TTW addresses a wastewater ... treatment” standard. The Petition states that similar to other municipal WWTPs, the effluent contains the nutrients nitrogen and phosphorus.

We could “redesign our wastewater treatment plants for the future ... or will they be able to sidestep the vicious cycle of nitrogen waste, and make wiser use of this critical element to ...

The EPA was allowed to impose limits on the levels of nitrogen which were being discharged into the Taunton River by its wastewater treatment plant. According to the DPW, the city currently has ...

The wastewater draining from massive pools of sewage ... and might even provide a revenue stream for utilities and water treatment facilities. The production of nitrogen for fertilizer is an ...

More information: Saurajyoti Kar et al, Life cycle assessment and techno-economic analysis of nitrogen recovery by ammonia air-stripping from wastewater treatment, Science of The Total Environment ...