“Koutsoukos Petros”
Emeritus Professor since Sept. 2018.
Professor of the Department of Chemical Engineering of the University of Patras and Director of the Laboratory of Inorganic and Analytical Chemistry (1989-2018).
Received the Ptichion of Chemistry (BSc) from the university of Patras (1972), MBA from the Athens School of Economics (1974) , Ph.D from SUNY at Buffalo (1980) and Ifigesia (eq. D.Sc.), University of Patras (1984). Research in the crystallization of inorganic salts with emphasis in biomineralization. Over 220 publications.
Abstract
Nitrogen and phosphorus may be recovered from water and wastewater. The principles of nucleation and crystal growth from solutions are presented to show that it is possible to recover N and P essential nutrients in the form of crystalline struvite (MgNH4PO4·6H2O). Crystallization methods in the lab and industrial crystallizers shall be presented.