An urgent call for using real human urine in decentralized sanitation research and advancing protocols for preparing synthetic urine

Sammanfattning

Recycling resources excreted in human urine can help achieve a sustainable future and circular economy in the sanitation space. However, many studies researching different technologies for safely recycling urine do not use real human urine for experimentation, relying instead on recipes for making synthetic or artificial solutions that attempt to mimic the composition of real human urine. This methodological choice is the focus of this article, which points out that the real urine matrix is extremely complex, with a metabolome (>2,500 metabolites) that differs greatly from that of synthetic urine (

Nyckelord

simulation; synthetic urine; membrane; micropollutants; nutrient recycling; wastewater treatment

Publicerad i

Frontiers in Environmental Science
2024, volym: 12, artikelnummer: 1367982
Utgivare: FRONTIERS MEDIA SA

SLU författare

• Simha, Prithvi

  • Institutionen för energi och teknik, Sveriges lantbruksuniversitet
    

• Randall, Dyllon

  • Institutionen för energi och teknik, Sveriges lantbruksuniversitet
    
  • University of Cape Town

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Publikationens identifierare

• DOI: https://doi.org/10.3389/fenvs.2024.1367982

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