WERF Seeks Resource Recovery Proposals

The Water Environment Research Foundation has funded significant research on recovery of resources from wastewater systems. Because WERF seeks to understand how resource recovery practices affect wastewater treatment, it will fund research answering whether water resource recovery facilities that operate for enhanced biological phosphorus removal, and/or phosphorus recovery, are experiencing difficulties dewatering anaerobically digested biosolids. WERF will also fund research to examine how phosphorus accumulation and recovery are affected when combined with a low-energy, low-carbon process (such as mainstream deammonification).The first project, "Unintended Consequences of Resource Recovery on Overall Plant Performance: Solving the Impacts on Dewaterability Properties (NTRY12R16)," will address recent reports of