Phosphorus Recovery and Recycling
This book focuses on the engineering aspects of phosphorus (P) recovery and recycling, presenting recent research advances and applications of technologies in this important and challenging area of engineering. It highlights full-
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Phosphorus Recovery and Recycling
Phosphorus Recovery and Recycling
Hisao Ohtake • Satoshi Tsuneda Editors
Phosphorus Recovery and Recycling
Editors Hisao Ohtake Phosphorus Atlas Research Institute Waseda University Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo, Japan
Satoshi Tsuneda Phosphorus Atlas Research Institute Waseda University Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo, Japan
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Foreword: Phosphorus Recycling — Mending a Broken Biogeochemical Cycle by Roland W. Scholz
Understanding the Dissipative Nature of Phosphorus The book Phosphorus Recovery and Recycling is a milestone in the course of taking global action to sustainably mend an anthropogenically broken natural-phosphorus cycle. Phosphorus is a bioessential and unsubstitutable element of life and a necessity for food production. In most ecosystems of the world in its pre-agricultural age, weathered phosphorus atoms cycled many times on a small scale before erosion and runoff transported particulate and soluble phosphorus to the ocean or it became unavailable as a result of lithification or leaching processes. For atoms that end up on the seafloor, it takes 10–100 million years before they become re-exposed by tectonic uplift. This has been fundamentally changed by agricultural activity, particularly the arable land covering approximately 10% of Earth’s terrestrial area (Smil 2000; Scholz et al. 2014). On agricultural land, a larger number of phosphorus atoms do not cycle a single
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