Source-separated urine treatment based on forward osmosis technology: Performance, applications and future prospects

H Liu, C Wang, W Sohn, Q Wang, HK Shon, P Sun - Desalination, 2023 - Elsevier
Human urine has been historically regarded unwanted in wastewater treatment plants due
to its abundant and imbalance nutrients for biological treatment processes. Recently …

Recent advances in Donnan dialysis processes for water/wastewater treatment and resource recovery: A critical review

H Chen, M Rose, M Fleming, S Souizi… - Chemical Engineering …, 2023 - Elsevier
Due to its low chemical and energy consumption, Donnan dialysis offers major opportunities
to improve contaminant removal and resource recovery from water and wastewater …

Circular hybrid membrane process treating high-salinity ammonium-rich pharmaceutical wastewater

MW Atsbha, R Liu, O Nir - Chemical Engineering Journal, 2024 - Elsevier
Ammonia-rich saline wastewater is a common byproduct of the pharmaceutical industry.
Hollow fiber membrane contactors (HFMCs) show potential for NH 3 recovery, enabling …

[HTML][HTML] Recovery of both volatile fatty acids and ammonium from simulated wastewater: Performance of membrane contactor and understanding the effects of osmotic …

M Ferby, Z He - Journal of Environmental Chemical Engineering, 2024 - Elsevier
Membrane Contractor (MC) is a separation method that has had growing interest because of
its recovery performance and comparably lower energy consumption. Herein, a two-stage …

Ammonia recovery via direct contact membrane distillation: Modeling and performance optimization

Y Hu, CY Loh, M **e, G Chen, M Huang… - Journal of Environmental …, 2024 - Elsevier
Ammonia recovery from wastewater has positive environmental benefits, avoiding
eutrophication and reducing production energy consumption, which is one of the most …

Concentrating stabilized human urine using eutectic freeze crystallization for liquid fertilizer production

C Courtney, DG Randall - Water Research, 2023 - Elsevier
Resource recovery from source-separated urine can be used to produce fertilizers and
provide a more sustainable alternative to mineral fertilizers. Reverse osmosis can be used to …

Application of the Rd/w framework to assess Donnan dialysis performance

H Chen, S Souizi, K Stewart, L Blaney - Current Opinion in Chemical …, 2023 - Elsevier
Highlights•R d/w concept applied to previous Donnan dialysis literature.•Theoretical
recoveries calculated with R d/w matched 57% of literature data.•Underperforming systems …

[HTML][HTML] Biofouling control in reverse osmosis membranes by concentrated free ammonia in hydrolysed urine

CX Chen, V Koskue, GJO Martin, GQ Chen, S Freguia - Desalination, 2024 - Elsevier
Reusing source-separated urine as fertiliser enhances wastewater circularity, but further
concentration is needed. Reverse osmosis (RO) is a promising option due to its low energy …

Recovery of nutrients from residual streams using ion-exchange membranes: Current state, bottlenecks, fundamentals and innovations

N Pismenskaya, K Tsygurina, V Nikonenko - Membranes, 2022 - mdpi.com
The review describes the place of membrane methods in solving the problem of the recovery
and re-use of biogenic elements (nutrients), primarily trivalent nitrogen NIII and pentavalent …

Multi-stage recovery of ammonia–potassium liquid fertilizer and phosphate mineral from real human urine

MW Atsbha, O Nir, TH Boyer - Separation and Purification Technology, 2025 - Elsevier
This study explores a novel multi-stage process for recovering valuable nutrients–nitrogen,
phosphorus, and potassium–from real hydrolyzed urine as value-added products. The …