Opportunities for Recovering Resources from Municipal Wastewater

Technical Report · Fri Jul 01 04:00:00 EDT 2022

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/1876441· OSTI ID:1876441

Ha, Miae ^[1]; Gutenberger, Gretchen ^[1]; Ou, Longwen ^[1]; Cai, Hao ^[1]; Hawkins, Troy R. ^[1]

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1. Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)

Municipal wastewater contains valuable resources including water, energy, and nutrients that often enter and leave wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) without being captured. Currently, plants are increasingly seeking to recover resources and reuse them in a sustainable way. Therefore, the purpose of this project was to assess the potential for recovery and reuse of water and products from municipal wastewater treatment plants across the United States and to examine how this potential varies by region. To accomplish this, three main tasks were set: first, to characterize wastewater treatment plants; second, to characterize technologies and pathways used to recover energy, nutrients, and water from treatment plants; third, to assess the demand for reclaimed resources and products at a regional level by performing spatial analysis. These three tasks were then synthesized to present key findings in this report and a geospatial dataset with the hope of guiding the increased use of resource recovery technologies in the U.S.

• Research Organization: Argonne National Laboratory (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE)
• DOE Contract Number: AC02-06CH11357
• OSTI ID: 1876441
• Report Number(s): ANL/ESD-21/11; 176194
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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