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ArticleACS ES&T water2025

Life Cycle Assessment and Techno-Economic Analysis of Utilizing Waste Nitrogen to Develop Microbial Protein from Cyanophycin Accumulating Organisms.

Chayse M Lavallais, Keith Tyo, George F Wells, Jennifer B Dunn

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Article in ACS ES&T water, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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4 authors.

Chayse M LavallaisChemical and Biological Engineering Department, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois 60208, United States.ORCID https://orcid.org/0009-0008-1229-6626
Keith TyoChemical and Biological Engineering Department, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois 60208, United States.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2342-0687
George F WellsCivil and Environmental Engineering Department, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois 60208, United States.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9100-1628
Jennifer B DunnChemical and Biological Engineering Department, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois 60208, United States.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2065-5106

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

To advance a nitrogen circular economy, wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) must use technologies that recover waste nitrogen and transform it into valuable products. One emerging option is partition-release-recover (PRR) technology. It transforms waste nitrogen into cyanophycin-accumulating organism microbial protein (CAO MP), which can be used as a protein source in animal feed. In this study, we perform a life cycle assessment and techno-economic analysis of a prospective WWTP configuration that incorporates this technology and assess whether it merits further development. Conventional activated sludge and anaerobic/anoxic/oxic WWTP systems are comparator baseline systems. We compare CAO MP to five different protein sources (soybean meal, alfalfa feed, fishmeal, cottonseed feed, and dried distiller grain solubles). The PRR approach has a median GWP that is 1-32% lower than the comparator WWTP systems. The median levelized cost of wastewater treatment using the PRR technology is 34-58% lower than the A

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animal feedlife cycle assessmentnitrogen recoverypartition−release−recovertechno-economic analysiswastewater treatment

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PMCPMC12706789

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