Hannah R Molitor, Ga-Yeong Kim, Elaine Hartnett, Benjamin Gincley, Md Mahbubul Alam, Jianan Feng, Nickolas M Avila, Autumn Fisher, Mahdi Hodaei, Yalin Li, Kevin McGraw, Roland D Cusick, Ian M Bradley, Ameet J Pinto, Jeremy S Guest
Mixed community microalgal wastewater treatment technologies have the potential to advance the limits of technology for biological nutrient recovery while producing a renewable carbon feedstock, but a deeper understanding of their performance is required for system optimization and control. In this study, we characterized the performance of a 568 m3 ·day-1 Clearas EcoRecover system for tertiary phosphorus removal (and recovery as biomass) at an operating water resource recovery facility (WRRF). The process consists of a (dark) mix tank, photobioreactors (PBRs), and a membrane tank with ultrafiltration membranes for the separation of hydraulic and solids residence times...
April 30, 2024: Environmental Science & Technology