Biomass Leachate Treatment and Nutrient Recovery Using Reverse Osmosis: Experimental Study and Hybrid Artificial Neural Network Modeling

The application of reverse osmosis (RO) to recover nutrients from biomass leachate, with special reference to permeate flux behavior during the filtration of the leachate, is investigated in this paper through a comprehensive laboratory and modeling approach. Various sources of biomass, including soybean straw, switchgrass, and miscanthus, were industrially leached using distilled water with agitation during the extraction experiments. The …