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Advanced Resource Recovery from Sludgehttps://metrovancouver.org/about-us/sustainability-innovation-fund/project/34Advanced Resource Recovery from SludgeWaste management;Resource recoveryIn Progress<div class="ExternalClass27DC26B577BA43FBABC1C069B60E3377"><p>Advancing the recovery of resources from wastewater to produce value-added outputs for use by other industries can help build a stronger circular economy. The project goals are to (i) assess options for recycling the HTP aqueous effluent back to the WWTP, explore the potential for recovering nitrogen and phosphorus from HTP by-products, evaluate the destruction of CECs in HTP; and (ii) develop a bioreactor that can augment production of biomethane from sludge.</p><p>The project partners are UBC School of Engineering and the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council.<br></p></div><div class="ExternalClass1592000B5FC8452C9155806417257B89"><p>Tested several treatment processes for the HTP aqueous stream and identified several promising options, as well as their limitations.</p><p>Investigated options to recover ammonia from the HTP aqueous stream into a high purity form that could be beneficially used.</p><p>Investigated options to recover phosphorus from the solid precipitate byproduct of hydrothermal processing into a form that could be used as a fertilizer.</p><p>Research results were disseminated in eighteen journal articles and ten conference presentations, bringing global interest to our region.</p><p>The UBC team’s prototyping guided the transition of the bioreactor project from bench-scale at the university lab to pilot scale with an engineering consultant, who completed preliminary design for pilot-scale bioreactor to be tested at Lulu Island WWTP.</p><p>Secured $200,000 in funding from the BC Centre for Innovation in Clean Energy (CICE) toward the bioreactor pilot. </p><p>Next Steps:</p><p>UBC researchers will continue to investigate treatment options for the HTP aqueous by-product and explore the fate of CECs in HTP. The results of UBC’s research will inform the operation of the HTP demonstration facility at Annacis Island WWTP, as well as informing integration of HTP into WWTPs in future full-scale implementation. The research will also inform pathways for recovering nutrients from HTP by-products that can contribute to the business case for full-scale HTP.</p><p>Metro Vancouver hired consultants to complete the detailed design of a pilot bioreactor for testing at Lulu Island WWTP. The pilot results will be evaluated to determine the increase in biomethane production and will inform whether to proceed with full-scale implementation at a Metro Vancouver WWTP.<br></p></div>GP0|#dc483649-e413-4696-af50-020fd4b8c1eb;L0|#0dc483649-e413-4696-af50-020fd4b8c1eb|Liquid Waste;GTSet|#ab8a80a3-ac09-4cde-99c1-454c04cb5931BC Lower Mainland2019

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