Energy analysis of composting toilet from full scale demonstration project on onsite differentiable treatment system
Energy analysis of composting toilet from full scale demonstration project on onsite differentiable treatment system
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现场微分处理系统全尺寸示范项目堆肥厕所的能源分析
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2006
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M. Yokota
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R. Ito;M. Fukuda;N. Funamizu;M. Yokota
The composting toilet system is core facility of onsite differentiable treatment system and a kind of dry toilet that has a reactor under a toilet bowl. The reactor is filled with sawdust kept at around 60 °C by heating. The ventilation system supplies continuously fresh air from toilet bowl to exhaust pipe through over the reactor. Most of moisture and organic matter are removed from reactor by evaporation and biodegradation during their composting process, resulting in small accumulation of residual matter into the compost. However, it needs large energy supply for stable operation with heating. To improve this problem, we analyzed the energy structure of the toilet system. As a result, the drying rate and the power consumption were respectively around 3-4 kg/day and 15 MJ/day. Then the evaporation energy was calculated as 7-15 MJ/day. Next, enthalpies of inlet and outlet air per day were respectively 10-100 MJ/day and 20-112 MJ/day. Here, the difference between the enthalpies of inlet and outlet air was around 15 MJ/day. Finally, the chemical energy was estimated 0.5 MJ/day by discharge rate of faeces from two person. Therefore, the heat energy from power supply is equal to the difference of the enthalpies. 7-12 MJ/day of energy, which came from power supply, was used to drying and the other is just to heat-up the air. The heat efficiency for drying, which was defined as ratio of evaporation energy to energy consumption, was around 60-100 %, and independent of ventilation air flow rate.