Nutrient Removal ARTICLES BY KEVIN WESTERLING
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Revolutionary Sludge Management Comes To America
5/30/2014
Wastewater utilities have a new opportunity to turn their sludge (biosolids) into something special.
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'Peecycle' Please: Will Urine Separation For Nutrient Recovery Take Off?
5/22/2014
Is it feasible to separate nutrient-rich urine before it reaches the wastewater treatment plant?
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3 Alternative Nutrient-Removal Techniques
4/23/2014
With a little help from water-quality managers, Mother Nature can do the job of remediating impaired or at-risk watersheds, while making them more resilient to nutrient loading.
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Shortcut Nitrogen Removal: The Next Big Thing In Wastewater
4/21/2014
A vast improvement on conventional biological nutrient removal could save the wastewater treatment industry untold millions.
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5 Reasons To Consider Decentralized Wastewater Treatment
2/10/2014
The economic and environmental costs of treating all wastewater at a centralized location can be a burden. At what point does decentralized treatment make more sense?
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The Surprising Answer To Nutrient Removal
2/3/2014
Algae has caused a lot of trouble in the water industry in recent years. But new research may just redeem the water industry foe.
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A Big Deal For Chicago Wastewater… And The Future Of Nutrient Recovery
10/17/2013
The world’s largest wastewater treatment plant makes a bold move from nutrient removal to nutrient recovery. Will others follow?
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Save Nutrients, Save The World
8/26/2013
While regulations demand that wastewater treatment plants get nutrients out of the water, the world’s food supply may demand more — that we recover and reuse them.
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The 'Cap And Trade' Approach To Nutrient Removal
8/14/2013
Forget “low-tech” — nutrient trading provides a no-tech solution for municipalities to gain compliance with effluent discharge requirements for nitrogen and phosphorus. The Mount Joy Borough Authority, profiled in this case study, was an early adopter and a model for a program that is gaining in popularity.
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A Step-By-Step Approach To Nutrient Removal
6/10/2013
As stricter ammonia and nitrate regulations get rolled out, the City of Boulder rolls right along with them, improving nutrient removal plant processes in stages to ensure continued compliance.