Advances in Nutrient Recovery
Dyllon Randall (University of Cape Town, South Africa)
Nitrogen and phosphorus recovery from stabilized human urine
Dr. Randall is a chemical engineer by training and is currently a senior lecturer in water quality engineering at the University of Cape Town in South Africa. He heads up the research group focusing on resource recovery from human urine. In 2018, he led the team that produced the world’s first bio-brick “grown” from human urine.
Mahlet Melaku (Addis Ababa Institute of Technology, Ethiopia)
Nutrient recovery as Struvite: The Case in Ethiopia
Mahlet Melaku is a faculty member in Addis Ababa Institute of Technology, School of Civil and Environmental Engineering with research interest in affordable and sustainable sanitation.
Brandon Clark (Stanford University, USA)
Selective recovery of ammonia nitrogen from wastewaters with transition metal-loaded polymeric cation exchange adsorbents
Brandon Clark is a 2nd year graduate student in the lab of Dr. William Tarpeh at Stanford University. His focus is on materials design for selective resource recovery from wastewater.
Hang (Lucas) Dong (Stanford University, USA)
Electro-assisted regeneration of pH-sensitive ion exchangers for ammonium and phosphate recovery from hydrolyzed urine
Hang (Lucas) Dong is a postdoc in Dr. William Tarpeh’s lab at Stanford University. His focus is on selective material and process design for resource recovery.
Nobuyo Watanabe (Department of Earth and Environmental Engineering, Columbia University, USA)
Membrane Technologies for Nutrient Recovery from Source-Separated Urine
Nobuyo Watanabe is an undergraduate researcher majoring in Chemistry. She joined the Yip Lab at Columbia University last summer and is currently involved in nutrient recovery research using membranes.
Daniella Saetta (Arizona State University, USA)
Bacterial communities in urine collected solely with nonwater urinals: Was fecal contamination avoided?
Daniella Saetta is a PhD candidate at Arizona State University. She has been an enthusiastic urine diversion researcher since 2014.
Sudeep Popat (Clemson University, USA)
Engineering the electrochemical ammonia stripping process for nitrogen recovery from source-separated urine
Dr. Sudeep Popat is an Assistant Professor in Environmental Engineering and Earth Sciences at Clemson. His research group focuses on anaerobic biotechnologies and electrochemical technologies for resource recovery from domestic and industrial wastewater. His group is currently working on a project funded by NASA to develop microbial and electrochemical technologies for resource recovery from wastewater during space missions.
