Distributed Sanitation and Energy Production Facility

我的研究领域是分布式卫生和能源设施，我将集中我的注意力从源头分离尿液制氢和营养回收。目的主要研究从源头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分散的设施，能够发电，同时摧毁病原体，并将人类排泄物分解为可用的副产品，可在当地使用。方法通过分解来源分离的尿液中发现的氨和尿素化合物来测试各种制氢方法，同时还回收氮，钾和磷酸盐用作肥料。这将通过测试各种原型来进行，以测试实验室情况下不同设计的性能。一旦设计经过检查和优化，功能和性能将进行现场测试，最好是在开发中的社区进行，以进行进一步的调整。可以对系统进行监测，以测量效率和生产率，从而测量经济可行性，并进行任何进一步的调整。将进行资金申请-以便能够生产这些设施，在不同地点对其进行测试，并对使用和维护情况进行观察;以确定是否需要进行进一步培训或任何修改，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.