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Sustainable use of phosphorus:capturing the philosopher’s stone
Marissa Adinda de Boer
Sustainable use of phosphorus:capturing the philosopher’s stone
Sustainable use of phosphorus: capturing the philosopher’s stone M
arissa A. de Boer
The work described in this thesis has been funded by the European Union (Marie
Curie ITN SusPhos, Grant agreement No. 317404) and the Netherlands
Organization of Scientific Research (NWO/TTO) by a TTW Take-off grant.
Cover design: Elise de Boer & Marissa de Boer
Printed by: Ridderprint BV | www.ridderprint.nl.
ISBN 978-94-6375-260-2
Copyright © Marissa A. de Boer, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, 2019.
Sustainable use of phosphorus:
capturing the philosopher’s stone
ACADEMISCH PROEFSCHRIFT
ter verkrijging van de graad van doctor
aan de Universiteit van Amsterdam
op gezag van de Rector Magnificus
prof. dr. ir. K. I. J. Maex
ten overstaan van een door het College voor Promoties ingestelde commissie,
in het openbaar te verdedigen in de Agnietenkapel
op vrijdag 25 januari 2019, te 10.00 uur
door
Marissa Adinda de Boer
geboren te Amsterdam
Promotiecommissie:
Promotor: dr. J. C. Slootweg Universiteit van Amsterdam
Copromotor: prof. dr. J.H. van Maarseveen Universiteit van Amsterdam
Overige leden: prof. dr. J. Grin Universiteit van Amsterdam
prof. dr. B. van der Zwaan Universiteit van Amsterdam
dr. J.R. Parsons Universiteit van Amsterdam
prof. dr. J. W. Erisman Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
prof. dr. O. Oenema Wageningen University &
Research
dr. R.J. Pistorius Universiteit van Amsterdam
Faculteit: Faculteit der Natuurwetenschappen, Wiskunde en Informatica
On the dark night our lone alchemist was having no luck with his latest
experiments to find the philosopher’s stone. Like many before him he had been
investigating the golden stream, urine, and he was heating the residues from this
which he had boiled down to a dry solid. He stoked his small furnace with more
charcoal and pumped the bellows until his retort glowed red hot. Suddenly
something strange began to happen. Glowing fumes filled the vessel and from the
end of the retort dripped a shining liquid that burst into flames. Its pungent, garlic-
like smell filled his chamber. When he caught the liquid in a glass vessel and
stoppered it he saw that it solidified but continued to gleam with an eerie pale-
green light and waves of flame seemed to lick its surface. Fascinated, he watched it
more closely, expecting this curious cold fire to go out, but it continued to shine
undiminished for hour after hour. Here was magic indeed. Here was phosphorus.
13th element: The Sordid Tale of Murder, Fire, and Phosphorus by John Emsley
Table of Contents
Preface 9
Chapter 1 13
Phosphorus: Reserves, Production and Applications
Chapter 2 55
Struvite: Towards a Circular Phosphorus Economy. Correspondence on
Chen et al. Application of Struvite Alters the Antibiotic Resistome in Soil,
Rhizosphere, and Phyllosphere
Chapter 3 67
Uptake of Pharmaceuticals by Sorbent-Amended Struvite Fertilizers Recovered
from Human Urine and their Bioaccumulation in Tomato Fruit
Chapter 4 91
Phosphorus recovery potential from wastewater: Creating a viable pathway for
realizing a Circular Phosphorus Economy
Chapter 5 113
An assessment of the Drivers and Barriers or the Deployment of Urban
Phosphorus Recovery Technologies: A Case Study of the Netherlands
Chapter 6 159
The Confluence of the Multi-Level Perspective and the Institutional
Entrepreneurship Theory: A Case Study of the Phosphorus Transition
Summary 193
Samenvatting 199
Acknowledgements 205
List of Publications 209