Suryanarayana,
Resource recovery from fecal sludge at Aditya Educational Institutions, Surampalem, Andhra Pradesh, India
Suryanarayana,
Awadesh Pratap Singh University India
ABSTRACT
The intake of food by living beings is essential for survival. The excretion of digested and undigested (fecal) matter is inevitable for all organisms to remain healthy on this planet Earth. Danier Kimuli et al. (2016) have shown that fecal sludge contains nutrients in the form of nitrates, total nitrogen, phosphates and potassium as well as lipids. From this fecal sludge, the resources of biodiesel and/or biogas as well as protein content can be recovered and the spent substance can be used as a soil conditioner to enrich the soil (humus). The main objective of the proposed research work is to recover these valuable materials using appropriate technologies. In this regard, an effort was made to collect data to determine the total amount, type and content of the fecal sludge from our facility and also the physicochemical and microbiological characterization was carried out to design resource recovery to achieve the UN Sustainable Development Goals and become self-sufficient in renewable energy. The details will be discussed in this presentation.
Keywords: food, excreta, faecal sludge, raw material extraction, protein, biodiesel/-gas, humus