Moving Toward Resource Recovery Facilities

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"The general message is that resource recovery is imperative and realistic in every aspect. The book even looks further on the horizon: Nutrients, energy, and water are not the end of recovery efforts. Other resources including plastics, paper, building materials, and metals already appear in the minds of the most visionary engineers."--Bart Van der Bruggen, professor at the University of Leuven, Belgium, Department of Chemical Engineering. Read the book review in the June 2015 Issue of Water Environment & Technology.

Resource recovery is an emerging societal need around the globe. Due to the ever-increasing pressures on increasingly limited environmental resources, it is critical that recovery of resources (water, nutrients, and energy) from waste streams be implemented. Moving Toward Resource Recovery Facilities is about moving away from waste streams and moving toward values streams. Providing an overview of the fundamental drivers for resource recovery from wastewater and presenting the basic case for resource recovery, Moving Toward Resource Recovery Facilities provides an overview of state-of-the-art technological approaches to resources recovery and provides general guidance on the applicability of recovery technologies for the cross section of facility types. This allows facilities to take steps towards recycling a greater number of otherwise lost resources.

Table of Contents
Chapter 1: What Resources Can We Recover?
Chapter 2: The Case for Resource Recovery: Part 1—Global Megatrends in the Water, Energy, and Nutrient Landscape
Chapter 3: The Case for Resource Recovery: Part 2—Regional Trends in the Water, Energy, and Nutrient Landscape
Chapter 4: Current State-of-the-Science in Recovery Technology Approaches and Opportunities
Chapter 5: Case Studies of Recovery Technology Applications
Chapter 6: Resource Recovery: The Utility Management Perspective
Chapter 7: Considerations for Selecting and Evaluating Resource Recovery Options
Chapter 8: Where Do We Go and How Do We Get There?
Chapter 9: The Next Generation of Resource Recovery Technologies
Index

This book was prepared by the Moving Toward Resource Recovery Facilities Task Force of the Water Environment Federation.

Order No: P140001
Medium: Book, Soft cover
Pages: 340
Publisher: Water Environment Federation
Year: 2014
ISBN: 978-1-57278-303-4

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Bart Van der Bruggen Apr 5, 2015 Report Abuse

Names are a powerful tool to bring a message. 'Water Resource Recovery Facilities' says it all: the message of this book couldn't possibly be more clear. For decades we have constructed 'wastewater treatment facilities' in view of environmental protection. However, environmental engineers with a vision understand today that we have to rethink this approach. The WEF has embarked on this by setting up a Task Force on resource recovery, in which no less than 68 experts in the field were involved. This book is a practical outcome of the work of the Task Force. It is a practical tool to help us with the new way of thinking. I can probably assume that there is no more need to convince you, unless some rare exceptions who can only maintain their position of non-believers by not reading this book. If you do read the book, you cannot go around the facts and current trends, nicely summarized in the N-E-W concept, which stands for 'nutrients, energy, water'. The global situation is briefly reviewed with an equal focus on the USA and the rest of the world. The next question is then how to implement this. It is explained in the fourth chapter of the book, which is dedicated to technologies in the three areas of resource recovery. This chapter may be the most impressive of the book. Water reuse may be a known area today, but energy and nutrients are still very much unexplored. Useful technologies are here, with many references and suggestions for further reading. Chapter 5 brings the technologies directly to us by showing some examples of nutrient recovery in the USA and Europe (and the classical example of water recycling in Windhoek). Such transition is not easy and some explanation of how to handle this is appropriate. The WEF Task Force proposes a stepwise implementation, in which the first step is in conservation followed by optimization rather than doing it all over again. This involves operational considerations, utility management, financial aspects and stakeholder commu