Organic phosphorus is an important component of soil biogeochemical cycles, but must be extracted from soil prior to analysis. Here we critically review the extraction of soil organic phosphorus, including procedures for quantification, speciation, and assessment of biological availability. Quantitative extraction conventionally requires strong acids and bases, which inevitably alter chemical s...

The biological variables consist of a single population each of phytoplankton and grazers, which are denominated in phosphorus units (mmol m23) in the constant (Redfield) ratio model (CRM) and are given the symbols Pp and Pz. In the variable ratio model (VRM), there are separate state variables for phytoplankton carbon (Cp), nitrogen (Np), phosphorus (Pp), and chlorophyll (M). Grazer biomass is...

The paper presents directions for a new system technology for municipal wastewater treatment, in order to consider both phosphorus removal and recovery. The system technology is proposed in a way to use as much as possible existing investments for the treatment and focus on modification of the operational mode. The process is based on removal followed by phosphorus recovery as calcium phosphate...

background: qual2k is a stream water quality model and was used to evaluate the water quality of the kine-vars river and assess the response of the river to nutrient management strategies. methods: for that purpose, 7 sample stations were selected and surface water samples were collected in the winter and summer of 2012 and were analyzed for temperature, dissolved oxygen, biological oxygen dema...

Waste streams such as municipal wastewater and animal manure contain organic materials and nutrients that can be converted and recovered for bioenergy and renewable fertilizer production. In the first part of this thesis, the anaerobic co-digestion of dairy manure with kitchen waste and chicken fat was studied for the purpose of increasing biogas production. The methane yields of co-digestion s...