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Technologies to recover nitrogen from livestock manure-A review

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SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT
Volume 784, Issue -, Pages -

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ELSEVIER
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.147098

Keywords

Livestock manure; Nitrogen; Nitrogen-recovery technologies

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  1. USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA), Hatch Project [1019082]
  2. USDA NIFA Sustainable Agricultural Systems project [2020-69012-31871]

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Livestock industry is a major emitter of ammonia globally, with nitrogen in livestock manure linked to water contamination. Recovering nitrogen from livestock manure can reduce environmental impact and create marketable nitrogenous fertilizers. Technologies like air stripping, thermal vacuum stripping, and gas-permeable membrane stripping show promise for livestock farmers.
Today, the livestock industry is considered to be one of the biggest emitters of ammonia in the world. The nitrogen present in livestock manure has been linked to the contamination of water bodies. Livestock manures contain a significant quantity of recoverable nitrogen. Recovering nitrogen from livestock manure can minimize negative environmental consequences. This also presents an opportunity to generate some revenue by converting the captured nitrogen to marketable nitrogenous fertilizers. Substantial research efforts have been made toward recovering nitrogen from raw as well as digested livestock manures over the last decade. Many novel technologies as well as ones that have already been implemented to recover nitrogen from municipal wastewaters have been studied for their use in the livestock sector. This paper reviews the common manure nitrogen-recovery technologies reported in the literature, summarizes their efficiencies, discusses their pros and cons, and identifies the areas for future research. Owing to their higher ammonia recovery efficiencies, relatively fewer drawbacks, lower costs, and ability to produce ammonium fertilizers, air stripping by direct aeration, thermal vacuum stripping, and gas-permeable membrane stripping appear to be the most viable choices for livestock farmers. Further studies should focus on the economic feasibility, long-term performance on the manure of varying strengths, and the quality of recovered nitrogenous products. (c) 2021 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

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