Mass integration and scheduling strategies for resource recovery in planetary habitation Academic Article uri icon

abstract

  • The purpose of this paper is to develop mass integration strategies for nonconventional applications to support planetary habitation systems. The system is aimed at recovering agricultural nutrients from crop-growth wastes. These wastes are processed through a combination of biological, physical and chemical systems to render harvested biomass into usable or recoverable materials. Aerobic composting was carried out followed by leaching and filtration. Tailored experiments were carried out to track the dynamic release of nutrients via aerobic composting. In order to maximize the use of recovered nutrients, a mass integration framework was developed for the optimum scheduling the allocation of composting products. The experimental results were used in a mathematical formulation that optimizes nutrient recovery, the operation of the system, and the scheduling of waste input and nutrient output. A case study on the composting of sweet potato biomass was solved to illustrate the usefulness of the experimental results and the integration framework.

published proceedings

  • CHEMICAL ENGINEERING RESEARCH & DESIGN

author list (cited authors)

  • El-Halwagi, M., Williams, L., Hall, J., Aglan, H., Mortley, D., & Trotman, A.

citation count

  • 1

complete list of authors

  • El-Halwagi, M||Williams, L||Hall, J||Aglan, H||Mortley, D||Trotman, A

publication date

  • February 2003