Catalogue of Nutrient Recovery Technologies

The ESPP Catalogue of Nutrient Recovery Technologies summarises processes for recovery of nutrients from sewage, manure or other sources, covering technologies should be operational or demonstrated at full-scale or pilot scale, recovering phosphorus, nitrogen, potassium and/or micro-nutrients.

Access each technology summary by the links below.

The catalogue aims to provide practical information on: technology supplier, process input materials, output products (nutrient content, organic carbon content and other properties), process description (inc. fate of contaminants), current operating status (number, capacity duration of continuous operation).

Information on technologies not currently included is invited, or comments or updates, to

Disclaimer: This document aims to provide an indicative overview, not technical information to support decision making. It is accurate to the best of our knowledge, but further information and updates should be sought from the indicated contacts. The information included has been discussed between ESPP and the technology suppliers, and in general validated by these companies. However, ESPP, DPP and NNP do not have resources necessary to audit information provided and information is included as provided by the companies. Inclusion in this document does not constitute any endorsement of technology(ies) by the nutrient platforms, nor validation of intellectual property nor commercial claims.

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Recovery of Phosphorus  |  Recovery of Nitrogen  |  Recovery of Potassium  |  Pyrolysis / biochar / hydrochar | Input material: ashes (sewage sludge incineration ash, meat and bone meal ash, other ashes …)  |  Input material: sewage sludge / digestate  |  Input material: manure / digestate  |  Input material: liquors  | Input material: other

P

Recovery of Phosphorus

Anuvia Plant Nutrients
Ash2Phos (EasyMining)
AshDec (Metso Outotec) 
Charlene - ReCord
EuPhore
Fertibox
Flashphos (Uni. Stuttgart, Italmatch)
HAIX ion exchange (LayneRTTM)
HTCycle 
ICL
Kemira iron / aluminium phosphate
Kubota
LWR
LYSTEK
Metawater alkaline ash leaching 
NuReSys
P-roc 
PAKU (Endev)
Parforce
Pearl (Ostara)
PHOS4Green (Glatt) 
Phos4Life (ZAR – Técnicas Reunidas)
PHOSPHIX (Clean TeQ Water) 
Phosphogreen (Suez)
Phosphorce (Veolia)
Prayon (Ecophos, GetMoreP, EcophosLoop)
RAVITA (Helsinki HSY) 
Renewable Nutrients
RePeat (Nijhuis Saur Industries)
Rubiphos-TTBS
SIMPhos-process (Cirkel)
Sinfert
Sludge lysis
Spodofos (ThermusP)
Struvite enhanced: Return streams
Struvite enhanced: acid (MSE-mobile)
Struvite precipitation
SusPhos
TerraNova Ultra
TetraPhos (Remondis)
Varcor
ViviMag® (Kemira)
WasStrip (Ostara)

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Recovery of Nitrogen

Agro America (VP Hobe) 
AguaDB
AMFER (Colsen)
Anuvia Plant Nutrients
Aqua2N (EasyMining)  
Byosis (Nijhuis Saur Industries)
CCm
DUCTOR
Fertibox
GENIUS (Nijhuis Saur Industries)
HTCycle
LWR
Manure slurry acidification
N2-Applied
PAKU (Endev) 
RAVITA (Helsinki HSY) 
Struvite enhanced: Return Streams
Struvite enhanced: acid (MSE-mobile)
Struvite precipitation
Varcor

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Recovery of Potassium

Agro America (VP Hobe)
AguaDB
Anuvia Plant Nutrients
Ash2Salt (EasyMining)
Fertibox
GENIUS (Nijhuis Saur Industries)
LWR

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Pyrolysis, biochar or hydrochar

Agro America (VP Hobe)
Charlene - ReCord
Hitachi Zosen
HTCycle
LYSTEK
OxyPower (C-Green)
Pyreg (pyrolysis)
STERCORE pyrolysis
Stiesdal SkyClean 
TerraNova Ultra 

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Input material: ashes (sewage sludge incineration ash, meat and bone meal ash, other ashes …)

AshDec (Metso Outotec) 
Ash2Salt (EasyMining)
Ash2Phos (EasyMining)
Flashphos (Uni. Stuttgart, Italmatch)
ICL
Metawater alkaline ash leaching
Parforce
PHOS4Green (Glatt) 
Phos4Life (ZAR – Técnicas Reunidas)
Prayon (Ecophos, GetMoreP, EcophosLoop)
Rubiphos-TTBS
Sludge lysis
Spodofos (ThermusP)
Susphos  
TetraPhos (Remondis)

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Input material: sewage sludge / digestate

Agro America (VP Hobe)
Anuvia Plant Nutrients
Byosis (Nijhuis Saur Industries)
CCm
EuPhore
Flashphos (Uni. Stuttgart, Italmatch)
Hitachi Zosen
HTCycle 
Kemira iron / aluminium phosphate
Kubota 
LYSTEK
OxyPower (C-Green)
PAKU (Endev)
Pyreg (pyrolysis)
RAVITA (Helsinki HSY) 
Renewable Nutrients
STERCORE pyrolysis
Stiesdal SkyClean 
Struvite enhanced: acid
Struvite enhanced: Return streams
TerraNova Ultra 
Varcor

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Input material: manure / digestate

Agro America (VP Hobe)
AMFER (Colsen)
Anuvia Plant Nutrients
Byosis (Nijhuis Saur Industries)
CCm
Fertibox
DUCTOR
GENIUS (Nijhuis Saur Industries)
Hitachi Zosen
LWR
N2-Applied
Prayon (Ecophos, GetMoreP, EcophosLoop)
Renewable Nutrients
RePeat (Nijhuis Saur Industries) 
Varcor

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Input material: liquors

AguaDB
Aqua2N (EasyMining)
HAIX ion exchange (LayneRTTM)
NuReSys
PHOSPHIX (Clean TeQ Water)
Pearl (Ostara)
Phosphogreen (Suez)
Phosphorce (Veolia)
SIMPhos-process (Cirkel)
Struvite enhanced: Return streams
Struvite precipitation
ViviMag® Kemira
WasStrip (Ostara)

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Input material: other

Agro America (VP Hobe)
Anuvia Plant Nutrients
Ash2Salt (EasyMining)
CCm
EuPhore 
Pyreg (pyrolysis)
Stiesdal SkyClean
Susphos 
Varcor
ViviMag® (Kemira) 

Processes no longer under development

RSR (Green Sentinel)
Extraphos (Budenheim)
RecoPhos thermal
BioEcoSim (Suez)
ePhos (Fraunhofer IGB)

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Inventory of phosphorus “recovery and /or recycling” facilities operating or under construction at wastewater treatment installations”

Established by C. Kabbe (P-REX Environment).

Access the document here.