Tag: Source-separating sanitation systems

Our former intern, Chinmoy Deb from India, who came to SLU last year for his Bachelor’s thesis on Urine Drying, has successfully received his Bachelor’s degree in Chemical Engineering. Currently, Chinmoy has started his Master’s program in “Soil, Water and Environment” at SLU and has been recruited as a member of our group. During his… Continue reading Chinmoy Deb joins the Urine Drying Project

Between 8th and 12th September, Björn and Prithvi were in Venice to take part in the International Water Association‘s 3rd Resource Recovery Conference in Venice. Prithvi had an oral presentation where he talked about the pilot testing of the alkaline urine dehydration technology at Pori Brigade in Finland. At the conference, Prithvi also co-chaired the… Continue reading Kretsloppsteknik at the 3rd IWA Resource Recovery Conference

Earlier today, Prof. Håkan Jönsson, Pernilla Tidåker, and Prithvi Simha coordinated a student (from the Sustainable Food Systems master’s program at SLU) visit to a garden and a house owned by Håkan, who has designed a local system where most of the plant nutrients from the household are recycled back to the garden and used… Continue reading Student field visit to Prof. Håkan Jönsson’s house

Several members of the group were present at the 28th annual meeting of the Sustainable Sanitation Alliance in Stockholm, prior to the world water week. On the sidelines of the meeting, we also got to have a great first meeting with Gustavo Heredia, the chairman of the Board of Directors of the AGUATUYA Foundation in… Continue reading Kretsloppsteknik at the 28th SuSanA meeting

Earlier today, we were happy to welcome a group of 20 delegates from the Finnish Water and Wastewater Association interested in on-site sanitation systems. From the group, Prithvi presented the urine drying technology. During the seminar, there were several presentations from organisations outside the university, e.g. VA-Guiden and the Swedish Agency for Marine and Water… Continue reading Visit from Finnish Water & Wastewater Association

During the last week, group members Prithvi Simha and Giulio Zorzetto were in Tampere, Finland where they installed a new urine dehydrator module that is being pilot tested in the Hiedanranta neighbourhood of the city of Tampere. The treatment module was constructed at SLU, transported to Finland, reasssembled at TAMK, and finally installed at the… Continue reading Semi-decentralised alkaline urine drying in an urban building

The three month long urine drying pilot installation at the Pori Birgade in Säkylä, Finland was dismantled last week, bringing to an end the first field demonstration of our technology. As you’ll recall from our previous blogs, we integrated a urine dehydration module with capacity of treating 40 L urine/day/m2 into an existing, mobile dry… Continue reading Thank you Porin Prikaati: wrapping up the urine drying pilot in Säkylä

Following the successful wrap up of the MORTTI-project that piloted the group’s urine drying technology in field conditions for the first time, we are back in Finland once again this week. This time around, we will be constructing, installing, and integrating a urine dehydrator with – a dry urinal and a urine-diverting flush toilet. The… Continue reading New project piloting urine drying in Finland

On 26th April, PhD Candidate Prithvi Simha presented his half-time seminar, “Urine Dehydration Technology for Decentralised Sanitation Systems” at SLU. In the seminar, Prithvi summarised and discussed two research papers & a draft book chapter on urine dehydration. Åke Nordberg, Assoc. Prof. in Bioenergy Technology was the opponent at the seminar.