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Chemistry: Reuse water pollutants

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  • Wen-Wei Li

    (Wen-Wei Li is associate professor of wastewater systems and sustainability at the Chinese Academy of Sciences' Key Laboratory of Urban Pollutant Conversion, University of Science & Technology of China, Hefei, China.)

  • Han-Qing Yu

    (Han-Qing Yu is professor of wastewater systems and sustainability at the Chinese Academy of Sciences' Key Laboratory of Urban Pollutant Conversion, University of Science &
    Technology of China, Hefei, China.)

  • Bruce E. Rittmann

    (Bruce E. Rittmann is professor of environmental engineering and director of the Swette Center for Environmental Biotechnology, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, USA.)

Abstract

Extracting carbon, nitrogen and phosphorus from wastewater could generate resources and save energy, say Wen-Wei Li, Han-Qing Yu and Bruce E. Rittmann.

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  • Wen-Wei Li & Han-Qing Yu & Bruce E. Rittmann, 2015. "Chemistry: Reuse water pollutants," Nature, Nature, vol. 528(7580), pages 29-31, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:nat:nature:v:528:y:2015:i:7580:d:10.1038_528029a
    DOI: 10.1038/528029a
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