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Macronutrients like phosphorous (P) and Nitrogen (N) or nutrients like Calcium (Ca) and Potassium (K) could be recovered from wastewater. Recently, several technologies like enhanced biological phosphorous removal, chemical and electrical precipitation of nitrogen, microalgae-based methods to recover nitrogen, struvite transformed into fertilizer, use of UV light, and others have been proposed to recover nutrients from wastewater. The depletion of phosphoric rock and the escalating prices of obtaining Ca, K, and N, and the advances in wastewater treatments have paved the way to develop new technologies or to improve the efficiency of the current ones. This is a worldwide trend encompassing industrial powerhouses, and third world countries economies. We discuss: (a) the conditions that brought the world to this emerging situation, (b) the technologies that used, modified, or recently emerged to cope with this situation, (c) the economics of nutrient recovery from wastewater, (d) suggest new proposals for future research.
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Pérez-Legaspi, I.A., Santos-Medrano, G.E., Rubio-Franchini, I., Martínez, R.R. (2023). Recovery of Nutrients from Wastewater. In: Singh, P., Verma, P., Singh, R.P. (eds) Wastewater Resource Recovery and Biological Methods. Springer Water. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-40198-5_2
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