Sustainability

It’s All About the Critters: Who Can Remove Nitrogen from Dairy Waste?

Here is an ammonia joke for you: Why do chemistry students like studying ammonia? Because it’s pretty basic stuff! So basic, in fact, that high levels of ammonia in dairy wastewater inhibit algal growth. For researchers at WSU looking to use algae as a natural way to extract high levels of nitrogen…

Loops of clear pipe stacked vertically in a bioreactor.