• Title of article

    Nitrification of human urine for its stabilization and nutrient recycling

  • Author/Authors

    Daolun Feng، نويسنده , , Zucheng Wu، نويسنده , , Shihong Xu، نويسنده ,

  • Issue Information
    روزنامه با شماره پیاپی سال 2008
  • Pages
    6
  • From page
    6299
  • To page
    6304
  • Abstract
    Nitrification of human urine performed for its stabilization, and culture of Spirulina platensis in the nitrified human urine were investigated for nutrient recovery. With daily adjusting to pH 8 and keeping high dissolved oxygen concentration, mean 95.0% of NH4-N in human urine can be finally stabilized and oxidized to NO3-N. Furthermore, this nitrified human urine seems to be an ideal culture medium for S. platensis. Without pH adjustment, only about 50.0% NH4-N could be converted, i.e. NH4NO3 would be formed. Under low dissolved oxygen concentration, mainly short nitrification (from NH4-N to NO2-N) occurred.
  • Keywords
    Human urine , nitrification , Spirulina platensis
  • Journal title
    Bioresource Technology
  • Serial Year
    2008
  • Journal title
    Bioresource Technology
  • Record number

    413693