Table 5.
Minimum temperature required for ignition and complete conversion of moist simulant faeces samples.
| Moisture content (wt.%) | Combustor bed temperature |
||
|---|---|---|---|
| 600° ± 10 °C | 500 ± 10 °C | 400 ± 10 °C | |
| 70% | x | x | x |
| 65% | √−Fair = 14 L/min | √Fair = 16 L/mina | x |
| 60% | √Fair = 16 L/min | √Fair = 16 L/mina | x |
| 55% | – | √Fair = 16 L/min | x |
| 50% | – | – | x |
| 45% | – | – | x |
| 40% | – | – | √ Fair = 10 L/mina |
√Success at air flow of 16 L/min; (a) air flow rate of 14 L/min; (b) air flow rate of 16 L/min; (c) air flow rate of 10 L/min.
a
Adjusted to 10 L/min at low combustion temperature below 400 °C; – analysis not conducted based on previous success rate; x – failed test.