{"id":162,"date":"2019-07-29T11:11:06","date_gmt":"2019-07-29T10:11:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uncnet.iiasa.ac.at\/?page_id=162"},"modified":"2019-07-29T12:34:29","modified_gmt":"2019-07-29T11:34:29","slug":"wp-6-quantifying-n-pools-and-recycling-n-flows","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.uncnet.org\/wp-6-quantifying-n-pools-and-recycling-n-flows\/","title":{"rendered":"WP 6: Quantifying N Pools and Recycling N Flows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[et_pb_section fb_built=&#8221;1&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;3.26.3&#8243;][et_pb_row _builder_version=&#8221;3.26.3&#8243;][et_pb_column type=&#8221;4_4&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;3.26.3&#8243;][et_pb_post_title meta=&#8221;off&#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;3.26.3&#8243; text_orientation=&#8221;center&#8221;][\/et_pb_post_title][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row _builder_version=&#8221;3.26.3&#8243;][et_pb_column type=&#8221;4_4&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;3.26.3&#8243;][et_pb_text _builder_version=&#8221;3.26.3&#8243;]<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Nitrogen compounds are embedded in many goods used by humans. They are being stored with other material in the settlements, forming N pools, but are largely also transferred in waste treatment. The aim of this work package is to develop guidance how to assess detailed information required to quantify N pools and fluxes related to consumption and storage of goods in private and public spaces.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify\">Quantification methods for the stocks and flows of N compounds in waste and wastewater will be developed and described.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify\">Methods developed for known N contents will be extrapolated to other compounds. Visual and textual methods of waste analysis will be used to assess N flows with lacking analytical information, and to estimate the uncertainty introduced.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify\">Waste and wastewater N as well as technology information on treatment methods will be used to quantify downstream fluxes (runoff, atmospheric release, groundwater seepage).<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify\">Estimates of N content in human dwellings and constructions will be developed generally, again based on the available data on waste composition, in order to extrapolate N pools in the human sphere.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify\">The potentials for extracting valuable N compounds from the waste processing and returning them as a valuable raw material will be assessed using the respective waste flow for a circular economy.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nitrogen compounds are embedded in many goods used by humans. They are being stored with other material in the settlements, forming N pools, but are largely also transferred in waste treatment. The aim of this work package is to develop guidance how to assess detailed information required to quantify N pools and fluxes related to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-162","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncnet.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncnet.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncnet.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncnet.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncnet.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=162"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncnet.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/162\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncnet.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}