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. 2021 Aug 20;1(1):32–45. doi: 10.1021/acsenvironau.1c00005

Table 1. Waste Disinfection/Management Technologies Being Used to Disinfect SMW during the COVID-19 Pandemic.

treatment ref
high-pressure steam sterilization (121 °C, 110 min) (25)
high-temperature pyrolysis (540–830 °C) (56)
high-temperature incineration (800–1200 °C) (56,57)
incineration (>1100 °C) (51)
double-chamber incineration (primary chamber 750–980 °C temperature, while the secondary chamber is designed to operate at a temperature of at least 1100 °C (58)
chemical disinfection:  
sodium hypochlorite (NaOCl), chlorine dioxide (ClO2), ultraviolet irradiation, ozone are used for liquid waste (57)
H2O2 (>0.5%); ethanol (>75%), isopropyl alcohol (>70%), formaldehyde (>0.7%), povidone iodine (>0.23%), sodium hypochlorite (>0.21%), irradiation for 60 min (59)
microwave technology (177–540 °C) (51)
deep burial (1–2 m, topsoil cover 1 and 2 m above the groundwater level) (50)