Circularity and Efficiency Assessment of Resource Recovery Solutions for The Water Treatment Sector
A. Bhambhani (TU Delft - Sanitary Engineering)
J.P. Hoek – Promotor (TU Delft - Sanitary Engineering)
Z. Kapelan – Promotor (TU Delft - Sanitary Engineering)
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Abstract
This thesis presents a collection of novel methods for the circularity and efficiency assessment of resource recovery solutions related to the water treatment sector. The resource recovery solutions pertain to the drinking water and wastewater treatment plants and include the recovery of nutrients, cellulose, treated wastewater, energy, sewage sludge, and calcite from drinking water softeners. The thesis also contains a new water-food-energy nexus framework which is used to compare the conventional centralized approach to wastewater treatment with a decentralized source separation one.