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. 2015 Jan 20;112(5):1630–1635. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1410715112

Table 1.

Uncertainty analysis for NEBs associated with the resource recovery approach for WWTPs

Weighting coefficient Developed countries Developing countries
Scenario 1 Scenario 2 Scenario 3 Scenario 4 Scenario 1 Scenario 2 Scenario 3 Scenario 4
ROCC CTV, % ROCC CTV, % ROCC CTV, % ROCC CTV, % ROCC CTV, % ROCC CTV, % ROCC CTV, % ROCC CTV, %
GHG emissions −0.62 24.8 −0.69 25.6 −0.70 26.3 −0.70 26.6 −0.71 38.3 −0.76 35.6 −0.75 39.4 −0.89 49.3
Energy consumption −0.46 13.7 −0.63 21.4 −0.64 22.0 −0.63 21.6 −0.20 3.0 −0.44 11.9 −0.34 8.1 −0.35 7.6
Chemical use 0.01 0.0 0.07 0.3 0.04 0.1 −0.01 0.0 −0.20 3.0 −0.02 0.0 −0.18 2.3 −0.23 3.3
Bioenergy recovery 0.76 37.3 0.96 49.6 0.96 49.5 0.95 49.0 0.68 35.2 0.89 48.8 0.82 47.1 0.80 39.8
Sludge recycling 0.06 0.2 0.10 0.5 0.10 0.5 0.12 0.8 0.09 0.6 0.15 1.4 0.16 1.8 0.00 0.0
Struvite capture 0.61 24.0 0.22 2.6 0.17 1.6 0.19 2.0 0.51 19.8 0.19 2.2 0.14 1.4 0.00 0.0

CTV, contribution to variance; ROCC, Spearman’s rank-order correlation coefficient.