Distributed Sanitation and Energy Production Facility

我的研究领域是分布式卫生和能源设施，我将专注于从源分离尿液中产氢和营养回收。主要的重点将是从源分离的尿液中产生氢气，同时回收营养物质。总体目标是提供一个能够发电的分散设施，同时摧毁病原体并将人类排泄物分解成可在当地使用的可用副产品。方法：通过分离尿液中的氨和尿素化合物来测试各种制氢方法，同时也回收氮、钾和磷酸盐作为肥料。这将通过测试各种原型来测试不同设计在实验室环境中的性能。一旦设计被检查和优化，功能和性能将被现场测试，最好是在一个发展中的社区，以做出进一步的调整。可以对系统进行监测，以衡量效率和生产率，衡量经济可行性，并做出进一步的调整。拨款申请将用于生产这些设施，在不同地点测试这些设施，并观察其使用和维修情况；以确定是否需要进行进一步的培训或任何修改，以限制对设施的不当使用。

My research area is in distributed sanitation and energy facilities, I will be focusing my attention hydrogen production and nutrient recovery from source-separated urine. ObjectivesThe main focus will be on generating hydrogen from source separated urine, whilst recovery nutrients. With the overall goal to provide a decentralised facility that is capable of producing electricity whilst destroying the pathogens and breaking down human excreta into useable by-products, that can be used locally.MethodologyTesting various methods of hydrogen production by splitting ammonia and urea compounds found in source separated urine, whilst also recovering nitrogen, potassium and phosphate to be used as a fertiliser. This will be carried out testing various prototypes to test the performance of the different designs in a lab situation. Once the design has been checked and optimised, the functionality and performance will be field tested, ideally in a developing community, to make further adjustments. Monitoring of the system can be carried out to measure the efficiency and production rate to measure the economic viability, and to make any further adjustments. Funding applications will be carried out - to enable the production of these facilities, to test them at different locations and to conduct an observation of use and maintenance; in order to see if further training or any modifications need to be undertaken, to restrict improper use of the facility.