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| Title |
Can Direct Conversion of Used Nitrogen to New Feed and Protein Help Feed the World?
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| Published in |
Environmental Science & Technology, April 2015
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| DOI | 10.1021/es505432w |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Silvio Matassa, Damien J. Batstone, Tim Hülsen, Jerald Schnoor, Willy Verstraete |
| Abstract |
The increase in the world population, vulnerability of conventional crop production to climate change, and population shifts to megacities justify a re-examination of current methods of converting reactive nitrogen to dinitrogen gas in sewage and waste treatment plants. Indeed, by up-grading treatment plants to factories in which the incoming materials are first deconstructed to units such as ammonia, carbon dioxide and clean minerals, one can implement a highly intensive and efficient microbial re-synthesis process in which the used nitrogen is harvested as microbial protein (at efficiencies close to 100%). This can be used for animal feed and food purposes. The technology for recovery of reactive nitrogen as microbial protein is available but a change of mindset needs to be achieved to make such recovery acceptable. |
X Demographics
The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 8 X users who shared this research output. Click here to find out more about how the information was compiled.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 4 | 50% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 13% |
| Ireland | 1 | 13% |
| Unknown | 2 | 25% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 7 | 88% |
| Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 1 | 13% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 393 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 2 | <1% |
| India | 2 | <1% |
| France | 1 | <1% |
| Italy | 1 | <1% |
| Denmark | 1 | <1% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | <1% |
| Unknown | 385 | 98% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 88 | 22% |
| Student > Master | 58 | 15% |
| Researcher | 56 | 14% |
| Student > Bachelor | 31 | 8% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 24 | 6% |
| Other | 50 | 13% |
| Unknown | 86 | 22% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Environmental Science | 73 | 19% |
| Engineering | 67 | 17% |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 41 | 10% |
| Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 25 | 6% |
| Chemical Engineering | 17 | 4% |
| Other | 44 | 11% |
| Unknown | 126 | 32% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 16. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 29 January 2020.
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#2,204,102
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#2,677
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#27,653
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#41
of 272 outputs
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