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. 2022 Sep;212(Pt D):113468. doi: 10.1016/j.envres.2022.113468

Table 1.

Fourteen groups of literature data on anaerobic digestion with human feces as substrate.

Substrates TSa (g/L) VSb(g/L) VS/TS (%) MPc(L/gVS) Reference
Fresh feces 67.1 55.3 82.4 0.36 Kim et al. (2019)
Top layer feces in dry toilet 67 52.6 78.5 0.243 Wang et al. (2020)
Blackwater 4.4 3.8 86.4 0.26–0.3 Rajagopal et al. (2013)
Fresh feces 219.5 179 81.5 0.177 van Eekert et al. (2019)
Fresh feces 245 201 82.0 0.271 Riungu et al. (2019)
Feces sludge in septic tanks 12 8.54 71.2 0.299 Chatterjee et al. (2019)
Fresh feces 3.2 2.6 81.3 0.449 Zhang et al. (2019)
Blackwater 4.5 2.83 62.9 0.22 Giwa et al. (2021)
Fresh feces 150 130.5 0.87 0.471 Zhang et al. (2017)
Blackwater 145.6 128 87.9 0.327 Duan et al. (2020)
Fresh feces 47.94 35.48 74.0 0.402 Zuo et al. (2021)
Brown water 3.45 2.85 82.6 0.16 Lavagnolo et al. (2017)
Human excreta 15.5 10.1 65.2 0.122 Sun et al. (2017)
Blackwater NR 4.5 NR 0.124 Wendland et al. (2007)

Note.

a

Total solid (TS).

b

Volatile solid (VS).

c

Methane production (MP).