Anaerobically-Digested Brewery Wastewater as a Nutrient Solution for Substrate-Based Food Production
Urban agriculture, due to its location, can play a key role in recycling urban waste streams, promoting nutrient recycling, and increasing sustainability of food systems. This research investigated the integration of brewery wastewater treatment through anaerobic digestion with substrate-based soill...
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| author | Ignasi Riera-Vila Neil O. Anderson Claire Flavin Hodge Mary Rogers |
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| description | Urban agriculture, due to its location, can play a key role in recycling urban waste streams, promoting nutrient recycling, and increasing sustainability of food systems. This research investigated the integration of brewery wastewater treatment through anaerobic digestion with substrate-based soilless agriculture. An experiment was conducted to study the performance of three different crops (mustard greens (<i>Brassica juncea</i>), basil (<i>Ocimum basilicum</i>), and lettuce (<i>Lactuca sativa</i>) grown with digested and raw brewery wastewater as fertilizer treatments. Mustard greens and lettuce grown in digested wastewater produced similar yields as the inorganic fertilizer control treatment, while basil had slightly lower yields. In all cases, crops in the digested wastewater treatments produced higher yields than raw wastewater or the no fertilizer control, indicating that nutrients in the brewery wastewater can be recovered for food production and diverted from typical urban waste treatment facilities. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-c1e430762aa24061b42e5fa3aba515f62022-12-22T01:58:20ZengMDPI AGHorticulturae2311-75242019-06-01524310.3390/horticulturae5020043horticulturae5020043Anaerobically-Digested Brewery Wastewater as a Nutrient Solution for Substrate-Based Food ProductionIgnasi Riera-Vila0Neil O. Anderson1Claire Flavin Hodge2Mary Rogers3Department of Horticultural Sciences, University of Minnesota, Saint Paul, MN 55108, USADepartment of Horticultural Sciences, University of Minnesota, Saint Paul, MN 55108, USADepartment of Horticultural Sciences, University of Minnesota, Saint Paul, MN 55108, USADepartment of Horticultural Sciences, University of Minnesota, Saint Paul, MN 55108, USAUrban agriculture, due to its location, can play a key role in recycling urban waste streams, promoting nutrient recycling, and increasing sustainability of food systems. This research investigated the integration of brewery wastewater treatment through anaerobic digestion with substrate-based soilless agriculture. An experiment was conducted to study the performance of three different crops (mustard greens (<i>Brassica juncea</i>), basil (<i>Ocimum basilicum</i>), and lettuce (<i>Lactuca sativa</i>) grown with digested and raw brewery wastewater as fertilizer treatments. Mustard greens and lettuce grown in digested wastewater produced similar yields as the inorganic fertilizer control treatment, while basil had slightly lower yields. In all cases, crops in the digested wastewater treatments produced higher yields than raw wastewater or the no fertilizer control, indicating that nutrients in the brewery wastewater can be recovered for food production and diverted from typical urban waste treatment facilities.https://www.mdpi.com/2311-7524/5/2/43urban agriculturereclaimed wastewatercontrolled environment agriculturesoilless productionbrewery<i>Brassica juncea</i><i>Lactuca sativa</i><i>Ocimum basilicum</i> |
| spellingShingle | Ignasi Riera-Vila Neil O. Anderson Claire Flavin Hodge Mary Rogers Anaerobically-Digested Brewery Wastewater as a Nutrient Solution for Substrate-Based Food Production Horticulturae urban agriculture reclaimed wastewater controlled environment agriculture soilless production brewery <i>Brassica juncea</i> <i>Lactuca sativa</i> <i>Ocimum basilicum</i> |
| title | Anaerobically-Digested Brewery Wastewater as a Nutrient Solution for Substrate-Based Food Production |
| title_full | Anaerobically-Digested Brewery Wastewater as a Nutrient Solution for Substrate-Based Food Production |
| title_fullStr | Anaerobically-Digested Brewery Wastewater as a Nutrient Solution for Substrate-Based Food Production |
| title_full_unstemmed | Anaerobically-Digested Brewery Wastewater as a Nutrient Solution for Substrate-Based Food Production |
| title_short | Anaerobically-Digested Brewery Wastewater as a Nutrient Solution for Substrate-Based Food Production |
| title_sort | anaerobically digested brewery wastewater as a nutrient solution for substrate based food production |
| topic | urban agriculture reclaimed wastewater controlled environment agriculture soilless production brewery <i>Brassica juncea</i> <i>Lactuca sativa</i> <i>Ocimum basilicum</i> |
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