| Publication type: | Conference other |
| Type of review: | Peer review (abstract) |
| Title: | Biochar from human waste : steps towards a new sanitation approach |
| Authors: | Schönborn, Andreas Bulant, Nicola |
| Conference details: | 15th Annual Meeting of the American Ecological Engineering Society, Stillwater, 3-5 June 2015 |
| Issue Date: | 2015 |
| Language: | German |
| Subject (DDC): | 630: Agriculture |
| Abstract: | Human waste is the source of 80-90% of the nutrients found in domestic wastewater, and can be a major path of pathogen transmission if the wastewater is not treated adequately. Mixing human waste with other wastewater streams also increases the difficulty to reclaim the nutrients. It is therefore a main go al of ecological sanitation approaches to catch and treat human waste as close to the source as possible, and convert it into a safely reusable form. One possible solution is the direct conversion of human feces into biochar by using a pyrolytical process. An experimental pyrolysis batch reactor was developed and built in fall 2014, to pyrolyse human fecal matter from a composting toilet. Ten test runs were performed, five with wood chips and five with fecal matter from a composting toilet. The resulting biochar was analyzed on elemental composition by using X - Ray Fluorescent Spectroscopy. Water content was a major factor influencing energy demand of this process, and must be. |
| URI: | https://digitalcollection.zhaw.ch/handle/11475/7252 |
| Fulltext version: | Published version |
| License (according to publishing contract): | Licence according to publishing contract |
| Departement: | Life Sciences and Facility Management |
| Organisational Unit: | Institute of Natural Resource Sciences (IUNR) |
| Appears in collections: | Publikationen Life Sciences und Facility Management |
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Schönborn, A., & Bulant, N. (2015). Biochar from human waste : steps towards a new sanitation approach. 15th Annual Meeting of the American Ecological Engineering Society, Stillwater, 3-5 June 2015.
Schönborn, A. and Bulant, N. (2015) ‘Biochar from human waste : steps towards a new sanitation approach’, in 15th Annual Meeting of the American Ecological Engineering Society, Stillwater, 3-5 June 2015.
A. Schönborn and N. Bulant, “Biochar from human waste : steps towards a new sanitation approach,” in 15th Annual Meeting of the American Ecological Engineering Society, Stillwater, 3-5 June 2015, 2015.
SCHÖNBORN, Andreas und Nicola BULANT, 2015. Biochar from human waste : steps towards a new sanitation approach. In: 15th Annual Meeting of the American Ecological Engineering Society, Stillwater, 3-5 June 2015. Conference presentation. 2015
Schönborn, Andreas, and Nicola Bulant. 2015. “Biochar from human waste : steps towards a new sanitation approach.” Conference presentation. In 15th Annual Meeting of the American Ecological Engineering Society, Stillwater, 3-5 June 2015.
Schönborn, Andreas, and Nicola Bulant. “Biochar from human waste : steps towards a new sanitation approach.” 15th Annual Meeting of the American Ecological Engineering Society, Stillwater, 3-5 June 2015, 2015.
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