{"id":22425,"date":"2025-06-12T11:45:07","date_gmt":"2025-06-12T09:45:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fbg.ub.edu\/?p=22425"},"modified":"2025-06-12T11:45:07","modified_gmt":"2025-06-12T09:45:07","slug":"the-university-of-barcelona-develops-pioneering-technology-to-recover-phosphorus-from-wastewater","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fbg.ub.edu\/en\/news\/the-university-of-barcelona-develops-pioneering-technology-to-recover-phosphorus-from-wastewater\/","title":{"rendered":"The University of Barcelona develops pioneering technology to recover phosphorus from wastewater"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The research groups <a href=\"https:\/\/diopma.org\/\">Design and Optimization of Processes and Materials<\/a> (DIOPMA) and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ub.edu\/portal\/web\/dp-eqqa\/biotecnologia-ambiental-ba-\">Environmental Biotechnology<\/a> (BA) at the <a href=\"https:\/\/web.ub.edu\/web\/ub\/\">University of Barcelona<\/a> (UB) have developed cutting-edge technology for <strong>recovering phosphorus<\/strong> in urban wastewater treatment plants. The MAGNYFOS project addresses an urgent environmental need: the recovery of phosphorus, <strong>an essential and critical nutrient in agriculture<\/strong>, but also a pollutant when discharged excessively into aquatic environments.<\/p>\n<p>The technology developed by UB uses industrial by-products rich in magnesium oxide as a more sustainable and cost-effective alternative to traditional chemical reagents. This approach enables the formation of a compound called struvite, which can be reused as fertilizer.<\/p>\n<p>The aim of the initiative is to recover phosphorus in a <strong>more efficient, economical, and sustainable manner<\/strong>, thus helping to reduce pollution, comply with European regulations, and give new life to industrial waste.<\/p>\n<p>This technology, validated in a pilot plant, not only reduces environmental impact, but also supports a circular economy model, where previously wasted resources are now reused. Moreover, it represents a step forward in transforming urban wastewater treatment plants into <strong>biorefineries capable of recovering valuable resources<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The project has been led by researchers <strong>Dr. Josep Maria Chimenos<\/strong>, Professor at the Faculty of Chemistry at UB, and <strong>Dr. Sergi Astals<\/strong>, Associate Professor at the same faculty, and has involved collaboration with the company <strong>Magnesitas Navarras, S.A.<\/strong> The project was presented within the &#8220;Transfer and Social Impact&#8221; initiative of the CRUE Spanish Universities.<\/p>\n<p>With this project, the University of Barcelona reaffirms its commitment to sustainability, innovation, and the transfer of knowledge towards a more circular and resilient economy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The research groups Design and Optimization of Processes and Materials (DIOPMA) and Environmental Biotechnology (BA) at the University of Barcelona&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":22436,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fbg.ub.edu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22425","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fbg.ub.edu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fbg.ub.edu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fbg.ub.edu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fbg.ub.edu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22425"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.fbg.ub.edu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22425\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22426,"href":"https:\/\/www.fbg.ub.edu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22425\/revisions\/22426"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fbg.ub.edu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22436"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fbg.ub.edu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fbg.ub.edu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fbg.ub.edu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}