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With funding from the听's "Reinvent the Toilet Challenge,"听researchers at the University of Colorado听91福利社 led by Dr. Karl Linden have developed an innovative 听household-scale toilet prototype that is:
- affordable
- operates off grid with no piped water or sewage听
- treats human waste on-site
- creates useful products out of human waste
The Sol-Char Toilet utilizes concentrated solar power (CSP) to convert human waste into char, an odorless听product that can be used as fuel or soil-amendment.听
The Sol-Char Sanitation team is currently exploring a Phase II design for a field pilot that improves and advances 听the Phase I听laboratory prototype:
- Off-the-shelf automotive fiber optic technology reduces cost/power by a factor of 10.
- High-density energy utilization services up to 100 people/day in single, standard (8鈥檟8鈥檟20鈥) "Shipping Container鈥 design.
- Continuous waste processing system
- Electrical 鈥榗o-generation鈥 provides up to 15 kW-hrs of electricity with battery backup for offline (cloudy) operation.听
- Durable ~20-30 year lifetime.
- Protected collectors and rooftop mounting adds security and听decreases failure modes