Print Email Facebook Twitter Life cycle assessment of nutrient recovery from wastewater – current methodological practices Title Life cycle assessment of nutrient recovery from wastewater – current methodological practices Author Lam, K.L. (TU Delft Sanitary Engineering) Zlatanovic, L. (TU Delft Sanitary Engineering; Amsterdam Institute for Advanced Metropolitan Solutions (AMS)) van der Hoek, J.P. (TU Delft Sanitary Engineering; Amsterdam Institute for Advanced Metropolitan Solutions (AMS); Waternet) Date 2019 Abstract Life cycle assessment (LCA) is an established methodology to assess the potential environmental impacts of products and processes. We reviewed 49 recent LCA studies (2010-2019) on wastewater nutrient recovery to synthesise some current methodological practices. Their scopes, variations, nutrient recovery accounting, uncertainty and sensitivity management, and future opportunities are discussed. There are many opportunities to improve the current practice such as assessing a broader scope of environmental impacts, improving model and inventory transparency, communicating uncertainties and understanding model sensitivities. While this study focuses on nutrient recovery from wastewater, a lot of the insights are also relevant to other water-related LCA. Subject Life cycle assessmentnutrient recoverwastewaterenvironmental impactsreview To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:fd0d5e5d-e236-48d6-a51f-b3b2d64092b8 Source Proceedings of the 10th IWA Symposium on Modelling and Integrated Assessment Event 10th IWA Symposium on Modelling and Integrated Assessment, 2019-09-01 → 2019-09-04, Copenhagen, Denmark Part of collection Institutional Repository Document type conference paper Rights © 2019 K.L. Lam, L. Zlatanovic, J.P. van der Hoek Files PDF 2_Lam_et_al_Watermatex2019.pdf 221.17 KB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:fd0d5e5d-e236-48d6-a51f-b3b2d64092b8/datastream/OBJ/view