Dr. Phillip Barak is a professor in the Department of Soil Science at UW-Madison. In this week’s video, Dr. Barak demonstrates how struvite crystallization on Langmuir monolayers, self-assembled monolayers and cation exchange membranes is used as a means to recover and recycle phosphorus from wastewater as a high-value fertilizer material.
– James Starzec
Water Docs: Dr. Phillip Barak
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