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Sustainable sanitation
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Reusability assessment of reinforced concrete components prior to deconstruction from obsolete buildings
Corentin Jean Dominique Fivet, Maléna Bastien Masse, Julie Rachel Devènes
A large part of building demolitions is motivated by purely socio-economic reasons. Hence, about-to-be-demolished structures, commonly made of reinforced concrete, very often present no or little degradation. When adaptive reuse of the entire building is n ...
2024Wastewater monitoring can anchor global disease surveillance systems
Tamar Kohn, Timothy R. Julian, Alex Robinson
To inform the development of global wastewater monitoring systems, we surveyed programmes in 43 countries. Most programmes monitored predominantly urban populations. In high-income countries (HICs), composite sampling at centralised treatment plants was mo ...
2023Modelling quantities and qualities (Q&Q) of faecal sludge in Hanoi, Vietnam and Kampala, Uganda for improved management solutions
Linda Strande, Magalie Diane Bassan, Amédé Ferré
The importance of faecal sludge management is gaining recognition. However, methods are still lacking to reasonably estimate the quantities and qualities (Q&Q) that need to be managed, which makes the planning for and implementing of management solutions q ...
ACADEMIC PRESS LTD- ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD2020Health risks for sanitation service workers along a container-based urine collection system and resource recovery value chain
Tamar Kohn, Simon Schindelholz, Timothy R. Julian
Container-based sanitation (CBS) within a comprehensive service system value chain offers a low-cost sanitation option with potential for revenue generation, but may increase microbial health risks to sanitation service workers. This study assessed occupat ...
2019Optimal design of biogas supply chains
François Maréchal, Theodoros Damartzis, Grégoire Alain Chomette
The current work addresses a methodology for the optimal design of biogas supply chains based on anaerobic digestion of animal manure. The problem formulation allows the utilization of optimized processing plants that have been previously designed within a ...
Elsevier B.V.2018Towards sustainable sanitation: Identifying and mitigating microbial health risks in the production of urine-derived fertilizers
Tamar Kohn, Simon Schindelholz, Timothy R. Julian
Sanitation systems that systematically recover and reuse waste can promote social enterprise, reduce discharge of harmful nutrients, pathogens and other contaminants to the environment, replace synthetic fertilizer sources, and increase access to sanitatio ...
2017Mechanisms and modeling of pathogen fate in pilot scale nutrient recovery reactors
Loïc Decrey, Simon Schindelholz, Manfred Schoger, Ariane Schertenleib, Timothy R. Julian
Due to its high nutrient content, source-separated urine can be processed into marketable liquid or solid fertilizers. The Valorisation of Urine Nutrients in Africa (VUNA) project developed and tested pilot-scale nitrification/distillation and struvite (Mg ...
2017Evaluation of pit latrine additive "LICE" on the stabilization and sanitization of synthetic faecal sludge
On-site sanitation technologies such as pit latrines are widely used in low-and middle-income countries. In emergency situations, after a disaster leading to an important displacement of persons, pit latrines are often the sanitation facilities built in ca ...
2017Towards sustainable sanitation: Mitigating microbial health risks in the production of urine-derived fertilizers
Tamar Kohn, Loïc Decrey, Simon Schindelholz, Linda Strande, Manfred Schoger, Ariane Schertenleib, Kai Udert, Christa McArdell
To identify and address health and safety challenges, first, I conducted a screening of fecal pathogens in source-separated urine. The pathogen inactivation performance of two innovative fertilizer production technologies was then evaluated in laboratory a ...
2016Conceptualising urban energy supply systems as socio-technical ecological systems in transition
Claudia Rebeca Binder Signer, Susan Marie Mühlemeier
The analysis of energy system transitions is mainly affected by a socio-technical system (STS) understanding, focussing on the co-evolvement of societal and technical changes. However, energy systems are highly dependent on and characterised by ecological ...
2016