Research Article

Off-Site Lime Stabilisation as an Option to Treat Pit Latrine Faecal Sludge for Emergency and Existing On-Site Sanitation Systems

Table 8

Chemical Oxygen Demand for upscaled experiment.

Sample IDControlLime
Initial (g COD/kg TS)Final (g COD/kg TS)Initial (g COD/kg TS)Final (g COD/kg TS)

11 444476415462234
15 162688913041738
6318680116171532

Total average10975 ± 44416151 ± 12021489 ± 1641835 ± 361

, , : Sample 1, Sample 2, and Sample 3, respectively. All samples were sampled from the mouth of the reactors.