ThermoEnergy ARP is a technology for high-efficiency ammonia removal at biogas and municipal wastewater treatment plants.
ProfiNutrients will be marketing the ThermoEnergy ARP technology used in combination with a struvite recovery system from US-based private firm Multiform Harvest.
The company has developed a patented struvite recovery technology that captures up to 80% of excess phosphorus and 20% of nitrogen from wastewater and converts it into a slow-release ammonium phosphate fertilizer.
The ThermoEnergy ARP system will then remove about 90% of the remaining ammonia/nitrogen from the centrate/filtrate side-stream and recover it as ammonium sulfate fertilizer.
ProfiNutrients’ Pieter Teeuwen said the combination of the two systems can solve the problem of nitrogen and phosphate loading into European waterways while producing two valuable fertilizers for sale that will subsidize operational costs.
ThermoEnergy president and CEO Cary Bullock said the company’s ARP process uses physical rather than biological chemistries to recover and convert ammonia into salable fertilizers.
ThermoEnergy is a supplier of wastewater recovery technology and systems.
ProfiNutrients is an engineering firm specializing in the removal of nutrients and minerals from wastewater, sewage, sludge, slurry and gas.
