Urban nutrient recovery through cultivation of chlorella sorokiniana

• Main Author: Lim, Chun Yong
• Other Authors: Wang Jing-Yuan
• Format: Theses and Dissertations
• Language: English
• Published: 2015
• Subjects: DRNTU::Engineering::Environmental engineering::Waste management; DRNTU::Engineering::Environmental engineering::Water treatment; DRNTU::Engineering::Civil engineering::Water resources
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/63272
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

High rate food consumption in urban cities causes vast amounts of nutrients, specifically nitrogen (N) and phosphorus (P) in this thesis, used in agriculture to end up in discarded food wastes and human urine. The latter contains 60 % of total N and 80 % of total P in all urban wastewater streams co...