International conference “From Nutrient Removal to Recovery”

In the last decade, nutrient removal has become a more or less standard technology in wastewater treatment. Nevertheless, nitrogen, phosphorus and sulfur removal requires relative large amounts of resources (energy and chemicals). Moreover, the techniques currently applied do not always allow proper recovery of nutrients and these potentially usefull compounds are often disposed off.

In order to make wastewater and solid waste treatment more sustainable, nutrient removal technologies have to be improved. Even better, nutrient removal should be replaced by nutrient recovery. This will involve both the adaptation of the presently available technologies as well as the complete re-design of wastewater and solid waste collection and treatment scenarios. This has not only technical but also social implications.

This conference aims to give an overview of the present situation with relation to improved nutrient removal or recovery technologies. These can be for industrial as well as municipal wastewater, and solid waste streams and applies to small scale as well as large scale treatment processes. The potential application of the recovered nutrients will also be presented.

Topics
. Nutrient (N,P,S) recovery and re-use technologies
. Centralized and decentralized techniques
. Hygienic aspects of re-use of nutrients
. Public perception of nutrient re-use
. Quantification and evaluation of sustainability aspects of nutrient recovery
. Modelling tools to implement nutrient recovery and re-use technologies
. Life cycle analysis of nutrient recovery technologies
. Novel biological, physical or chemical techniques for nutrient removal

All information about the conference can be obtained from:
Conference Secretariat
Buerweg 51, 1861 CH Bergen, Netherlands