[HTML][HTML] A critical review on current urea removal technologies from water: An approach for pollution prevention and resource recovery

D Weerakoon, B Bansal, LP Padhye… - Separation and …, 2023 - Elsevier
Urea is the key nitrogenous waste product generated in the urea cycle in ureotelic animals.
Apart from that, urea and its derivatives are manufactured on a large scale for various …

A comprehensive review on wastewater nitrogen removal and its recovery processes

Y Zhou, Y Zhu, J Zhu, C Li, G Chen - International Journal of …, 2023 - mdpi.com
Discharging large amounts of domestic and industrial wastewater drastically increases the
reactive nitrogen content in aquatic ecosystems, which causes severe ecological stress and …

Evaluating the potential of nanofiltration membranes for removing ammonium, nitrate, and nitrite in drinking water sources

A Popova, R Rattanakom, ZQ Yu, Z Li, K Nakagawa… - Water Research, 2023 - Elsevier
Advanced drinking water treatment process using nanofiltration (NF) membranes has
gained attention recently because it removes many challenging constituents in …

Nutrients in a circular economy: role of urine separation and treatment

W Sohn, J Jiang, S Phuntsho, Y Choden, HK Shon - Desalination, 2023 - Elsevier
The increasing global population, over the last few decades, brought about the rise in
synthetic fertiliser market prices along with explosive agricultural demand. Source …

Electrochemical degradation of acetaminophen in urine matrices: Unraveling complexity and implications for realistic treatment strategies

RJA Felisardo, E Brillas, TH Boyer, EB Cavalcanti… - Water Research, 2024 - Elsevier
Urine has an intricate composition with high concentrations of organic compounds like urea,
creatinine, and uric acid. Urine poses a formidable challenge for advanced effluent …

Concentrating stabilized urine with reverse osmosis: how does stabilization method and pre-treatment affect nutrient recovery, flux, and scaling?

C Courtney, DG Randall - Water Research, 2022 - Elsevier
Human urine can be used as a fertilizer, however, due to the high water content (97%),
concentration is required to make transportation economically feasible. Reverse osmosis …

Ammonium ultra-selective membranes for wastewater treatment and nutrient enrichment: Interplay of surface charge and hydrophilicity on fouling propensity and …

X Bao, Q She, W Long, Q Wu - Water Research, 2021 - Elsevier
Membrane fouling and ammonium transmembrane diffusion simultaneously pose great
challenges in membrane-based pre-concentration of domestic wastewater for efficient …

Bioelectricity generation from human urine and simultaneous nutrient recovery: Role of Microbial Fuel Cells

R Sharma, R Kumari, D Pant, P Malaviya - Chemosphere, 2022 - Elsevier
Urine is a 'valuable waste'that can be exploited to generate bioelectricity and recover key
nutrients for producing NPK-rich biofertilizers. In recent times, improved and innovative …

[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 from hydrolyzed human urine by forward osmosis with acidified draw solution

H Ray, F Perreault, TH Boyer - Environmental science & …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Forward osmosis (FO) is a low-pressure membrane process that can selectively separate
low molecular weight neutral compounds such as ammonia from urine. However, an …