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Description: Resource Recovery
Resource Recovery Handbook
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Resource Recovery Handbook provides a complete introductory overview of modern resource recovery issues and a framework for future exploration and implementation. This new handbook combines three previously released WEF resources—Water Reuse Roadmap, Nutrient Roadmap, and Energy Roadmap—and lends itself to WEF’s Circular Water Economy initiative. It covers the latest technologies as they relate to water, nutrients, energy, and other resources available for recovery within wastewater systems. Planners, managers, elected officials, academic researchers, engineers, and operators will all find useful and practical guidance on converting their wastewater utility into a resource recovery facility.
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Water Environment Federation
SourceResource Recovery Handbook Task Force of the Water Environment Federation
Document typeDigital Book
PublisherWater Environment Federation
Print publication date Sep 2025
Print ISBN 978-1-57278-474-1
EISBN 978-1-57278-475-8
Volume / Issue
First / last page(s)1 - 16
Copyright2025
Word count68,182
Subject keywordsResource recoveryEnergyWater reuseNutrient recoveryWastewater master planningSocietal and environmental constraintsSustainable management

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About WEF
Resource Recovery Handbook
The Water Environment Federation (WEF) is a not-for-profit technical and educational organization of more than 30,000 individual members and 75 affiliated Member Associations representing water quality professionals around the world. Since 1928, WEF and its members have protected public health and the environment. WEF and its global network of members and...
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Special Publications of the Water Environment Federation
Resource Recovery Handbook
The WEF Technical Practice and Publications Advisory Panel (formerly the Technical Practice Committee and the Committee on Sewage and Industrial Wastes Practice of the Federation of Sewage and Industrial Wastes Associations) was created by the Federation Board of Control on October 11, 1941. The primary function of the Committee is to originate and produce, through appropriate subcommittees,...
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Contents
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List of Figures
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List of Tables
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Preface
Resource Recovery Handbook
Treating, using, retreating, and then discharging water is the most basic definition of the water cycle. But after this is done, what’s next? Are there other resources that could be extracted from society’s wastewater? It turns out, the answer is yes, and in some cases, these resources have been effectively recycled from society’s waste for multiple thousands of years. Wastewater...
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Chapter 1: Introduction
Resource Recovery Handbook
The world is changing, and previous wastewater treatment paradigms are becoming less relevant, and in some cases, are no longer even applicable. Nutrient recovery, water reuse, and energy management are increasing in popularity in response to changes in drivers, constraints, market forces, and environmental conditions. As a result, consultants and academics have led initiatives to address and...
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Chapter 2: Biosolids Recovery and Use
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Chapter 3: Energy Generation
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Chapter 4: Nutrient Removal and Recovery
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Chapter 5: Water Reuse
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Chapter 6: Utility Decision-Making
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Chapter 7: Operational Requirements, Risks, and Resiliency
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Chapter 8: Financial Aspects
Resource Recovery Handbook
Identifying and arranging funding for municipal projects is both a science and an art, and the additional component of resource recovery adds a new layer of complexity and funding opportunities not typical of a conventional water or wastewater treatment project.
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Chapter 9: Long-Term Utility Planning
Resource Recovery Handbook
Utilities use long-term planning exercises to discuss and structure utility investments and other priorities. A recently developed, highly successful approach has been use of the effective utility management (EUM) approach (American Water Works Association et al., 2024). The EUM framework was developed by a consortium of seven industry associations...
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Chapter 10: Innovation and Emerging Technologies
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Index
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