ARC Research Hub for Nutrients in a Circular Economy (NiCE)

城市公用事业公司需要设计有弹性的废水基础设施，以应对城市集约化、水道污染和气候变化的压力。该中心旨在以前所未有的城市规模的营养循环经济改造废水行业，以建筑水平的尿液分离和处理为基础，生产安全有效的液体肥料。通过与价值链上的利益相关者接触，该中心希望将两项尿液处理技术投入商业准备，并为循环经济制定新的法规和商业模式。这将增加废水和城市农业的弹性，并将为澳大利亚的新技术创造市场机会。

Urban utilities are in need to design resilient wastewater infrastructure to tackle the pressures of urban intensification, waterways pollution and climate change. This Hub aims to transform the wastewater industry with an unprecedented, city-scale circular economy of nutrients based on urine separation and processing at building level, to produce safe and effective liquid fertilisers. By engaging with stakeholders across the value chain, this Hub expects to bring two urine processing technologies to commercial readiness, and to produce new regulations and business models for the circular economy. This will add resilience to the wastewater and urban farming industries, and will create market opportunities for new Australian technologies.