Jingsi Xiao

Ms. Jingsi Xiao

University of Kaiserslautern
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Academic Career Length

7Years (2020-Present)

(Calculated once Scilit publication data is synced: current year − year of first publication + 1)

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1 February 2020 in Journal of Cleaner Production
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MMMarlena Cristina Monea
Marlena Cristina Monea
DLDirk Karsten Löhr
Dirk Karsten Löhr
CMCarsten Meyer
Carsten Meyer
VPVolker Preyl
Volker Preyl
Jingsi XiaoJingsi Xiao
Jingsi Xiao
ADAsya Drenkova-Tuhtan
Asya Drenkova-Tuhtan

28 January 2021 in Sustainability
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Jingsi XiaoJingsi Xiao
Jingsi Xiao
UAUlrike Alewell
Ulrike Alewell
IBIngo Bruch
Ingo Bruch
Heidrun SteinmetzHeidrun Steinmetz
Heidrun Steinmetz
Global trends such as climate change and the scarcity of sustainable raw materials require adaptive, more flexible and resource-saving wastewater infrastructures for rural areas. Since 2018, in the community Reinighof, an isolated site in the countryside of Rhineland Palatinate (Germany), an autarkic, decentralized wastewater treatment and phosphorus recovery concept has been developed, implemented and tested. While feces are composted, an easy-to-operate system for producing struvite as a mineral fertilizer was developed and installed to recover phosphorus from urine. The nitrogen-containing supernatant of this process stage is treated in a special soil filter and afterwards discharged to a constructed wetland for grey water treatment, followed by an evaporation pond. To recover more than 90% of the phosphorus contained in the urine, the influence of the magnesium source, the dosing strategy, the molar ratio of Mg:P and the reaction and sedimentation time were investigated. The results show that, with a long reaction time of 1.5 h and a molar ratio of Mg:P above 1.3, constraints concerning magnesium source can be overcome and a stable process can be achieved even under varying boundary conditions. Within the special soil filter, the high ammonium nitrogen concentrations of over 3000 mg/L in the supernatant of the struvite reactor were considerably reduced. In the effluent of the following constructed wetland for grey water treatment, the ammonium-nitrogen concentrations were below 1 mg/L. This resource efficient decentralized wastewater treatment is self-sufficient, produces valuable fertilizer and does not need a centralized wastewater system as back up. It has high potential to be transferred to other rural communities.