Lifecycle Assessments & Environmental Impacts
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N2O emissions and carbon footprint of a urine treatment and fertilizer production system
Valentin Faust did his Master in Environmental Engineering at ETH Zurich in Switzerland with majors in urban water management and water resource management. In 2018, Faust started his PhD at Eawag supervised by Prof. Kai M. Udert focusing on partial urine nitrification. The PhD is part of ESA’s MELiSSA (Micro-Ecological Life Support System Alternative) program and is co-supervised by Prof. Ramon Ganigué and Prof. Siegfried E. Vlaeminck from UAntwerp.
Impact of source-separation of urine on effluent quality, energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions of a decentralized wastewater treatment plant
Umakant Badeti is a PhD student at University of Technology Sydney in the school of Civil and Environmental Engineering. He has been working on source separation and nutrient recovery from urine and its effect on wastewater treatment plant as part of his PhD work.
Life Cycle Assessment of Urine Diversion and Conversion to Fertilizer Products at the City Scale
Dr. Nancy Love is Principal Investigator of the National Science Foundation’s INFEWS project: Advancing Technologies and Improving Communication of Urine-Derived Fertilizers for Food Production within a Risk Based Framework. Dr. Love is the Borchardt and Glysson Collegiate Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University Michigan, and an adjunct Professor at the Institute of Biotechnology at Addis Ababa University. In collaboration with her students, Dr. Love works at the interface of water, infrastructure and public health in both domestic and global settings.
Human urine in agriculture: various management options contributing to sustainable nitrogen fertilization
Tristan Martin is a post-doctoral researcher at INRAE (French national research institute for agriculture food and environment) near Paris. He studies the agronomic potential and the environmental impacts of urine-based fertilizers.
