Struvite vs traditional chemical phosphorus precipitation

16 July 2018
Focus area: Waste
Program stream: Sustainability
Project number: 2018-1026
Phosphorus removal from red meat industry wastewater is currently performed by chemical precipitation, but there is increasing interest in struvite crystallization, as it produces a useable fertilizer product rather than waste solids.

This research project seeks to review current commercially available and proven full-scale struvite crystallization systems and assess the economic and technical benefits of struvite crystallization against the benchmark conventional phosphorus precipitation processes.

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