Blog from the Environmental Engineering Research Group at SLU
Cecilia Lalander from environmental engineering group and other leading experts were interviewed about the circular sanitary system of the future. If you are interested, read more here (in Swedish):
https://www.forskning.se/2021/05/27/hur-ska-vi-bli-av-med-skiten
Contact: Cecilia Lalander
In a new paper published in Water Research, Senecal et al. assessed what hygienic health risks may occur when human urine is dehydrated. The experiment was set up to simulate that the last person using the toilet (before the dehydration medium is changed) is contaminating the medium with misplaced faeces, with no time for dehydration of the urine, i.e. a worst-case scenario. It was found that urine dehydration in itself achieved a concentration < 1 A. suum per 4 g of dehydrated medium which fulfils the WHO guidelines for unrestricted use.