Hello,
I'm interested in exploring life cycle analysis for composting toilet, specifically focusing on various scenarios related to nutrient removal. Can you recommend any articles or provide suggestions that could assist me in my research?
Thank you very much
Composting creates a sort of semi-artificial nutrient cycle. Yes, the nutrients are eventually recycled back into the soil, but instead of allowing plant and animal waste to sit around and naturally decompose wherever it falls, composting makes all the decomposition take place in one spot.To remove nutrients in wastewater we use secondary or biological treatment stages. We add billions of microorganisms (including good bacteria) suspended in the wastewater. We create environments that speed up natural biochemical processes.
For detail please see Following Links
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/350984925_Environmental_Life-Cycle_Assessment_of_an_Innovative_Multifunctional_Toilet
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0301479710002537
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fenvs.2023.1112689
Life cycle analysis is based on current and literature data as well. Which area you are gonna LCA? if it is a Life cycle environmental analysis, I'd prefer that collect data from an existing system, or use literature, or you can also use sarogate system for the analysis. Here is some software you can use for environmental analysis i,e., GaBi, SimaPro, ecoenvent etc.
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