Recovery of agricultural nutrients from biorefineries
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This review lays the foundation for why nutrient recovery must be a key consideration in design and operation of biorefineries and comprehensively reviews technologies that can be used to recover an array of nitrogen, phosphorus, and/or potassium-rich products of relevance to agricultural applications. Recovery of these products using combinations of physical, chemical, and biological operations will promote sustainability at biorefineries by converting low-value biomass (particularly waste material) into a portfolio of higher-value products. These products can include a natural partnering of traditional biorefinery outputs such as biofuels and chemicals together with nutrient-rich fertilizers. Nutrient recovery not only adds an additional marketable biorefinery product, but also avoids the negative consequences of eutrophication, and helps to close anthropogenic nutrient cycles, thereby providing an alternative to current unsustainable approaches to fertilizer production, which are energy-intensive and reliant on nonrenewable natural resource extraction.
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Recovering agricultural nutrients from biorefineries for substitution of conventional fertilizers is a challenge for the next few years.
“Recovering agricultural nutrients from biorefineries, for a substitution of conventional fertilizers is a challenge for the next few years (Carey et al., 2016).”
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Biorefineries: Achievements and challenges for a bio-based economy
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- Authors
- Carey, D. E., Yang, Y., McNamara, P. J., & Mayer, B. K.
- Affiliations
- Marquette University (US)
- Corresponding author
- Mayer, Brooke K.
- Venue
- Bioresource Technology
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2016-09
- Volume
- 215
- Pages
- 186-198
- ISSN
- 0960-8524 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2291600043
- Cited by
- 75
- References
- 74
- Citations by year
- 2026: 3 · 2025: 3 · 2024: 4 · 2023: 10 · 2022: 16 · 2021: 6 · 2020: 10 · 2019: 6 · 2018: 7 · 2017: 8 · 2016: 2
- FWCI
- 0.76
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Licence
- Locations
- Bioresource Technology (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- e-Publications@Marquette (Marquette University) (submittedVersion)
- Funders
- Research Coordination Network
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Waste Management and Disposal › Phosphorus and nutrient management
- Physical Sciences › Engineering › Biomedical Engineering › Biofuel production and bioconversion
- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Waste Management and Disposal › Wastewater Treatment and Reuse
- Keywords
- nutrient recovery, biorefinery, nitrogen recovery, phosphorus recovery, potassium recovery, agricultural fertilizers, biomass waste valorization, eutrophication prevention, nutrient cycling, biofuels, bio-based chemicals
- MeSH terms
- Agriculture, Animals, Fertilizers, Humans, Phosphates, Water Pollutants, Chemical, Water Purification, Bioreactors, Recycling, Wastewater, Ammonium Compounds
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