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Food processors in water scarce regions are looking for ways to reuse water within their operations to overcome abstraction restrictions. This project will study the economically viable removal and recovery of nutrients (especially phosphorus) from meat processing effluents to enable water reuse. Phosphorus has historically been the only material in meat factory process effluents which is too expensive or impossible to remove to the required levels. The removal of phosphorus (and possibly other nutrients) from waste waters will allow the industrial project partners (meat processors) to reuse this water within their processes. Removal of nutrients from the meat processing waste waters will reduce the effluents' impact on the aquatic environment while also making available a renewable source of phosphorus. The production of this by-product will help make the recovery and reuse system economically viable. It is expected that the developed systems will be applicable in other sectors of the food industry worldwide with phosphorus-rich effluents.

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