How the fate of N, P and C affects the environmental life cycle performance of wastewater and sludge management
Other conference contribution, 2014

This paper discusses the fate of nitrogen, phosphorus and carbon in wastewater and sludge management and argues that the fate of these elements may have a large impact on the life cycle environmental performance of such systems. The effect of changing plant operation to increase N removal and to add also P control, thereby shifting the transfer of the elements between different media, was studied, using data from mass and energy balances and from literature. A sensitivity analysis was also made. It was shown that LCA results are considerably affected by both considered operational changes and by assumptions on the magnitudes of some parameters.

Author

Magdalena Svanström

Chalmers, Chemical and Biological Engineering, Chemical Environmental Science

Giuseppe Laera

Sara Heimersson

Chalmers, Chemical and Biological Engineering, Chemical Environmental Science

Proceedings to ECSM 2014 – 4th European Conference on Sludge Management, Izmir, Turkey, May 26-27 2014

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Sustainable development

Areas of Advance

Building Futures (2010-2018)

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Water Engineering

Other Environmental Engineering

Other Chemical Engineering

Other Industrial Biotechnology

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10/7/2017