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Stephen Hilton

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Research Assistant

Status:
Former
Education
  • M.S. Sustainable Systems, University of Michigan, 2020
  • M.S.E. Environmental Engineering, 2021
  • B.S. Environmental Geosciences, Texas A&M University, 2017
Research Interests

Nutrient recovery through urine separation, Life Cycle Assessment, Water Systems, Circular Economy

Stephen is working on assessing a new form of recycling: Pee-cycling. Instead of adding nutrient heavy urine to the wastewater treatment system and intensively treating the nitrogen and phosphorus as a waste, the project looks to create fertilizer with it instead. He is developing life cycle models to analyze the environmental trade-offs of this approach with the conventional wastewater treatment system.