Nutrient recovery from wastewater is an effective strategy to prevent eutrophication and provide value for the treatment process. Human urine is a small but highly nutrient-rich stream in the total flux of domestic wastewater from which struvite (MgNHPOHO) could be recovered and used as a fertiliser. Consequently, synthetic urine was used in most struvite precipitation studies, due to biohazard issues in real human urine.
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