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<article-title>An urgent call for using real human urine in decentralized sanitation research and advancing protocols for preparing synthetic urine</article-title>
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<surname>Simha</surname>
<given-names>Prithvi</given-names>
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<sup>1</sup>
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<surname>Courtney</surname>
<given-names>Caitlin</given-names>
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<surname>Randall</surname>
<given-names>Dyllon Garth</given-names>
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<sup>1</sup>
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<institution>Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences</institution>, <institution>Department of Energy and Technology</institution>, <addr-line>Uppsala</addr-line>, <country>Sweden</country>
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<institution>Chemical Engineering Department</institution>, <institution>University of Cape Town</institution>, <addr-line>Cape Town</addr-line>, <country>South Africa</country>
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<institution>Future Water Institute</institution>, <institution>University of Cape Town</institution>, <addr-line>Cape Town</addr-line>, <country>South Africa</country>
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<bold>Edited by:</bold> <ext-link ext-link-type="uri" xlink:href="https://loop.frontiersin.org/people/636073/overview">Efthalia Chatzisymeon</ext-link>, University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom</p>
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<bold>Reviewed by:</bold> <ext-link ext-link-type="uri" xlink:href="https://loop.frontiersin.org/people/504428/overview">Shamshad Ahmad</ext-link>, District Water Testing Laboratory Jal Nigam, India</p>
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<ext-link ext-link-type="uri" xlink:href="https://loop.frontiersin.org/people/2016599/overview">Sukalyan Sengupta</ext-link>, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, United States</p>
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<corresp id="c001">&#x2a;Correspondence: Prithvi Simha, <email>Prithvi.Simha@slu.se</email>
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<day>14</day>
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<day>09</day>
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<copyright-statement>Copyright &#xa9; 2024 Simha, Courtney and Randall.</copyright-statement>
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<p>Recycling resources excreted in human urine can help achieve a sustainable future and circular economy in the sanitation space. However, many studies researching different technologies for safely recycling urine do not use real human urine for experimentation, relying instead on recipes for making synthetic or artificial solutions that attempt to mimic the composition of real human urine. This methodological choice is the focus of this article, which points out that the real urine matrix is extremely complex, with a metabolome (&#x3e;2,500 metabolites) that differs greatly from that of synthetic urine (&#x3c;15 metabolites). Therefore, experimental results obtained using synthetic urine can also differ from those obtained using real urine. To exemplify this, we review published literature in terms of four aspects: i) solubility of chemicals and buffering capacity of urine, ii) dissolved organics and membrane fouling, iii) thermodynamic modelling of chemical speciation in urine, and iv) removal of pollutants from urine. We recognise that there is a place for synthetic urine in sanitation research and provide examples of studies where its use is appropriate. Lastly, based on literature from the medical sciences, we provide preliminary guidelines on protocols for preparing synthetic urine that could improve experimentation involving human urine and accelerate the water sector&#x2019;s transition to circularity.</p>
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<title>1 Introduction</title>
<p>In decentralised sanitation systems, human urine can be collected separately from other domestic wastewater and treated to make several useful products, such as water, fertiliser, biostimulants, chemicals and electricity (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B36">Larsen et al., 2013</xref>). Such recycling has the potential to reduce human transgression of several planetary boundaries, including those on biogeochemical flows of nitrogen and phosphorus (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B46">Perez-Mercado et al., 2022</xref>; <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B53">Rockstrom et al., 2023</xref>). Separate treatment of urine can also benefit existing centralised wastewater treatment plants, <italic>e.g.</italic>, by decreasing the nitrogen load and thus reducing the energy demand for nitrification (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B82">Wilsenach and Loosdrecht, 2006</xref>).</p>
<p>Recycling of human urine is a growing research topic within the water sector (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B1">Aliahmad et al., 2022</xref>). Several novel technologies for treating urine are currently being developed [for recent reviews on this topic, see Larsen et al. (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B35">Larsen et al., 2021</xref>)] and implemented in transdisciplinary initiatives like the Horizon Europe project &#x201c;P2Green&#x201d; (<ext-link ext-link-type="uri" xlink:href="https://p2green.eu/">https://p2green.eu/</ext-link>) and the Australian Research Council research hub &#x201c;NiCE&#x201d; (<ext-link ext-link-type="uri" xlink:href="https://www.nicehub.org/">https://www.nicehub.org/</ext-link>). A growing number of experts believe that decentralised treatment of wastewater could help the water sector accelerate its transition to circularity and that it is well poised to achieve such a paradigm shift (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B27">Guest et al., 2009</xref>; <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B36">Larsen et al., 2013</xref>).</p>
<p>These developments are promising for our own research groups, which are also working in this area. However, a particular trend in current research on decentralised sanitation that gives us cause for concern, and which we address in this article, is <italic>the use of synthetic human urine</italic>. An analysis of urine research literature, specifically focusing on nutrient recovery, published over the past 5&#xa0;years, shows an increasing trend in the use of synthetic urine (<xref ref-type="sec" rid="s13">Supplementary Material</xref>, <xref ref-type="sec" rid="s13">Supplementary Figure S1</xref>), with approximately 40% of these studies conducted exclusively with synthetic urine. Of particular concern is that among several publications that exclusively used synthetic urine, 21% referred to the type of urine used as &#x201c;human urine&#x201d; in the title of their publications (<xref ref-type="sec" rid="s13">Supplementary Material</xref>, <xref ref-type="sec" rid="s13">Supplementary Figure S1</xref>). For multiple reasons, many studies do not use real human urine in experimental work, and instead rely on recipes for making synthetic solutions that attempt to mimic the composition of real human urine. A simple search of the Scopus database shows that there are hundreds of published articles that have either used synthetic urine for experimentation or have developed assumptions, hypotheses and conclusions based on published studies using synthetic urine. Using synthetic solutions to simulate real fluids is a legitimate scientific method, and one that is not uncommon in wastewater research. In the decentralised sanitation sector, many recipes that can successfully mimic specific physical and chemical properties of human faeces, faecal sludge and greywater have been developed (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B45">Penn et al., 2018</xref>). In early experimental work, such as proof-of-concept research studies, use of simulants like synthetic urine can help advance science by shedding light on mechanistic aspects of a treatment technology. However, in some instances, using only synthetic urine for experimentation could be problematic from a methodological perspective, especially if protocols for preparing synthetic urine are not well-established and validated by comparison with real urine. To argue why this could be the case, in this article we highlight some of the differences in composition and properties of synthetic urine and real urine. We draw on selected published literature to show how differences between types of urine affect experimental results and their real-life implications. We recognise that there is a place for synthetic/artificial urine in sanitation research and provide examples of cases where its use is appropriate. Our intention is not to criticize studies or researchers that have used synthetic urine in the past. Both of our research groups have also conducted experimental work involving synthetic urine (<xref ref-type="table" rid="T1">Table 1</xref>). In fact, the observations we made during those studies regarding the differences between real urine and synthetic urine motivated us, in part, to write this perspective article. Overall, we think there is a risk that findings of experiments conducted solely with synthetic urine, especially when prepared using unvalidated protocols, may not be generalisable and transferrable to real-life sanitation systems involving real urine. For instance, studies conducted exclusively using synthetic urine might inadvertently cast a positive light on a urine treatment technology, even if that technology may not prove equally effective when applied to real urine. Therefore, in this perspective article, these authors aim to share with the research community working on decentralised sanitation certain concerns and important considerations when working with synthetic urine. We hope that the article will stimulate a discussion within the research community on the benefits of using real human urine for experimentation work.</p>
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<label>TABLE 1</label>
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<p>Concentrations of different constituents in a selection of <italic>synthetic fresh human urine</italic> recipes described in the literature. Recipes are shown in increasing order of number of metabolites in urine.</p>
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<bold>Concentration [g/L]</bold>
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<th align="center">
<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B4">
<bold>Asiain-Mira et al. (2022)</bold>
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</th>
<th align="center">
<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B84">
<bold>Xu et al. (2020)</bold>
</xref>
</th>
<th align="center">
<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B21">
<bold>Elitzur et al. (2016)</bold>
</xref>
</th>
<th align="center">
<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B19">
<bold>de Wilt et al. (2016)</bold>
</xref>
</th>
<th align="center">
<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B50">
<bold>Ray et al. (2019)</bold>
</xref>
</th>
<th align="center">
<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B77">
<bold>Volpin et al. (2019)</bold>
</xref>
</th>
<th align="center">
<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B88">
<bold>Zhang et al. (2021)</bold>
</xref>
</th>
<th align="center">
<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B13">
<bold>Courtney and Randall (2021a)</bold>
</xref>
</th>
<th align="center">
<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B29">
<bold>Han et al. (2022)</bold>
</xref>
</th>
<th align="center">
<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B62">
<bold>Simha et al. (2022)</bold>
</xref>
</th>
<th align="center">
<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B83">
<bold>Wilsenach et al. (2007)</bold>
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<td align="left" style="color:#222222">NaCl</td>
<td align="center" style="color:#222222">-</td>
<td align="center" style="color:#222222">1.2</td>
<td align="center" style="color:#222222">8</td>
<td align="center" style="color:#222222">0.32</td>
<td align="center" style="color:#222222">2.57</td>
<td align="center" style="color:#222222">0.18</td>
<td align="center" style="color:#222222">2.57</td>
<td align="center" style="color:#222222">3.58</td>
<td align="center" style="color:#222222">0.51</td>
<td align="center" style="color:#222222">0.04</td>
<td align="center" style="color:#222222">4.6</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td align="left" style="color:#222222">Na<sub>2</sub>SO<sub>4</sub>
</td>
<td align="center" style="color:#222222">-</td>
<td align="center" style="color:#222222">-</td>
<td align="center" style="color:#222222">-</td>
<td align="center" style="color:#222222">-</td>
<td align="center" style="color:#222222">2.13</td>
<td align="center" style="color:#222222">2.3</td>
<td align="center" style="color:#222222">2.13</td>
<td align="center" style="color:#222222">1.41</td>
<td align="center" style="color:#222222">-</td>
<td align="center" style="color:#222222">2.29</td>
<td align="center" style="color:#222222">2.3</td>
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<td align="left" style="color:#222222">KCl</td>
<td align="center" style="color:#222222">-</td>
<td align="center" style="color:#222222">-</td>
<td align="center" style="color:#222222">1.64</td>
<td align="center" style="color:#222222">-</td>
<td align="center" style="color:#222222">2.98</td>
<td align="center" style="color:#222222">4.2</td>
<td align="center" style="color:#222222">2.98</td>
<td align="center" style="color:#222222">3.80</td>
<td align="center" style="color:#222222">0.19</td>
<td align="center" style="color:#222222">1.94</td>
<td align="center" style="color:#222222">1.6</td>
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<td align="left" style="color:#222222">K<sub>2</sub>SO<sub>4</sub>
</td>
<td align="center" style="color:#222222">-</td>
<td align="center" style="color:#222222">-</td>
<td align="center" style="color:#222222">2.63</td>
<td align="center" style="color:#222222">0.056</td>
<td align="center" style="color:#222222">-</td>
<td align="center" style="color:#222222">-</td>
<td align="center" style="color:#222222">-</td>
<td align="left"/>
<td align="center" style="color:#222222">0.135</td>
<td align="center" style="color:#222222">-</td>
<td align="center" style="color:#222222">-</td>
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<tr>
<td align="left" style="color:#222222">MgCl<sub>2</sub>&#xb7;6H<sub>2</sub>O</td>
<td align="center" style="color:#222222">-</td>
<td align="center" style="color:#222222">-</td>
<td align="center" style="color:#222222">-</td>
<td align="center" style="color:#222222">-</td>
<td align="center" style="color:#222222">0.81</td>
<td align="center" style="color:#222222">-</td>
<td align="center" style="color:#222222">0.81</td>
<td align="left"/>
<td align="center" style="color:#222222">0.072</td>
<td align="center" style="color:#222222">0.25</td>
<td align="center" style="color:#222222">0.65</td>
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<tr>
<td align="left" style="color:#222222">MgCl<sub>2</sub>
</td>
<td align="center" style="color:#222222">-</td>
<td align="center" style="color:#222222">-</td>
<td align="center" style="color:#222222">-</td>
<td align="center" style="color:#222222">-</td>
<td align="center" style="color:#222222">-</td>
<td align="center" style="color:#222222">0.37</td>
<td align="center" style="color:#222222">-</td>
<td align="center" style="color:#222222">0.24</td>
<td align="center" style="color:#222222">0.37</td>
<td align="center" style="color:#222222">-</td>
<td align="center" style="color:#222222">-</td>
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<tr>
<td align="left" style="color:#222222">MgSO<sub>4</sub>&#xb7;7H<sub>2</sub>O</td>
<td align="center" style="color:#222222">-</td>
<td align="center" style="color:#222222">-</td>
<td align="center" style="color:#222222">-</td>
<td align="center" style="color:#222222">0.074</td>
<td align="center" style="color:#222222">-</td>
<td align="center" style="color:#222222">-</td>
<td align="center" style="color:#222222">-</td>
<td align="left"/>
<td align="center" style="color:#222222">-</td>
<td align="center" style="color:#222222">-</td>
<td align="center" style="color:#222222">-</td>
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<tr>
<td align="left" style="color:#222222">NaH<sub>2</sub>PO<sub>4</sub>
</td>
<td align="center" style="color:#222222">-</td>
<td align="center" style="color:#222222">-</td>
<td align="center" style="color:#222222">-</td>
<td align="center" style="color:#222222">-</td>
<td align="center" style="color:#222222">2.4</td>
<td align="center" style="color:#222222">2.9</td>
<td align="center" style="color:#222222">2.4</td>
<td align="center" style="color:#222222">1.36</td>
<td align="center" style="color:#222222">-</td>
<td align="center" style="color:#222222">0.61</td>
<td align="center" style="color:#222222">-</td>
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<tr>
<td align="left" style="color:#222222">Na<sub>2</sub>HPO<sub>4</sub>&#xb7;2H<sub>2</sub>O</td>
<td align="center" style="color:#222222">-</td>
<td align="center" style="color:#222222">-</td>
<td align="center" style="color:#222222">-</td>
<td align="center" style="color:#222222">0.03</td>
<td align="center" style="color:#222222">-</td>
<td align="center" style="color:#222222">-</td>
<td align="center" style="color:#222222">-</td>
<td align="left"/>
<td align="center" style="color:#222222">-</td>
<td align="center" style="color:#222222">-</td>
<td align="center" style="color:#222222">-</td>
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<tr>
<td align="left" style="color:#222222">Na<sub>2</sub>HPO<sub>4</sub>&#xb7;12H<sub>2</sub>O</td>
<td align="center" style="color:#222222">-</td>
<td align="center" style="color:#222222">0.72</td>
<td align="center" style="color:#222222">-</td>
<td align="center" style="color:#222222">-</td>
<td align="center" style="color:#222222">-</td>
<td align="center" style="color:#222222">-</td>
<td align="center" style="color:#222222">-</td>
<td align="left"/>
<td align="center" style="color:#222222">-</td>
<td align="center" style="color:#222222">-</td>
<td align="center" style="color:#222222">-</td>
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<tr>
<td align="left" style="color:#222222">KH<sub>2</sub>PO<sub>4</sub>
</td>
<td align="center" style="color:#222222">-</td>
<td align="center" style="color:#222222">-</td>
<td align="center" style="color:#222222">-</td>
<td align="center" style="color:#222222">0.11</td>
<td align="center" style="color:#222222">-</td>
<td align="center" style="color:#222222">-</td>
<td align="center" style="color:#222222">-</td>
<td align="left"/>
<td align="center" style="color:#222222">0.13</td>
<td align="center" style="color:#222222">-</td>
<td align="center" style="color:#222222">4.2</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td align="left" style="color:#222222">CaCl<sub>2</sub>
</td>
<td align="center" style="color:#222222">-</td>
<td align="center" style="color:#222222">-</td>
<td align="center" style="color:#222222">-</td>
<td align="center" style="color:#222222">-</td>
<td align="center" style="color:#222222">-</td>
<td align="center" style="color:#222222">0.51</td>
<td align="center" style="color:#222222">-</td>
<td align="left"/>
<td align="center" style="color:#222222">-</td>
<td align="center" style="color:#222222">0.15</td>
<td align="center" style="color:#222222">-</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td align="left" style="color:#222222">CaCl<sub>2</sub>&#xb7;2H<sub>2</sub>O</td>
<td align="center" style="color:#222222">-</td>
<td align="center" style="color:#222222">-</td>
<td align="center" style="color:#222222">-</td>
<td align="center" style="color:#222222">0.021</td>
<td align="center" style="color:#222222">0.59</td>
<td align="center" style="color:#222222">-</td>
<td align="center" style="color:#222222">0.59</td>
<td align="center" style="color:#222222">0.55</td>
<td align="center" style="color:#222222">0.048</td>
<td align="center" style="color:#222222">-</td>
<td align="center" style="color:#222222">0.65</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td align="left" style="color:#222222">NH<sub>4</sub>Cl</td>
<td align="center" style="color:#222222">-</td>
<td align="center" style="color:#222222">-</td>
<td align="center" style="color:#222222">-</td>
<td align="center" style="color:#222222">-</td>
<td align="center" style="color:#222222">-</td>
<td align="center" style="color:#222222">1.8</td>
<td align="center" style="color:#222222">-</td>
<td align="left"/>
<td align="center" style="color:#222222">-</td>
<td align="center" style="color:#222222">0.52</td>
<td align="center" style="color:#222222">1</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td align="left" style="color:#222222">NH<sub>4</sub>HCO<sub>3</sub>
</td>
<td align="center" style="color:#222222">-</td>
<td align="center" style="color:#222222">-</td>
<td align="center" style="color:#222222">-</td>
<td align="center" style="color:#222222">-</td>
<td align="center" style="color:#222222">-</td>
<td align="center" style="color:#222222">-</td>
<td align="center" style="color:#222222">-</td>
<td align="left"/>
<td align="center" style="color:#222222">0.02</td>
<td align="center" style="color:#222222">-</td>
<td align="center" style="color:#222222">-</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td align="left" style="color:#222222">NaOH</td>
<td align="center" style="color:#222222">-</td>
<td align="center" style="color:#222222">-</td>
<td align="center" style="color:#222222">-</td>
<td align="center" style="color:#222222">-</td>
<td align="center" style="color:#222222">-</td>
<td align="center" style="color:#222222">0.23</td>
<td align="center" style="color:#222222">-</td>
<td align="left"/>
<td align="center" style="color:#222222">-</td>
<td align="center" style="color:#222222">0.1</td>
<td align="center" style="color:#222222">-</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td align="left" style="color:#222222">CH&#x2084;N&#x2082;O</td>
<td align="center" style="color:#222222">20</td>
<td align="center" style="color:#222222">-</td>
<td align="center" style="color:#222222">13.4</td>
<td align="center" style="color:#222222">0.6</td>
<td align="center" style="color:#222222">15.01</td>
<td align="center" style="color:#222222">16</td>
<td align="center" style="color:#222222">15.02</td>
<td align="center" style="color:#222222">13.0</td>
<td align="center" style="color:#222222">1.72</td>
<td align="center" style="color:#222222">8.72</td>
<td align="center" style="color:#222222">25</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td align="left" style="color:#222222">C<sub>4</sub>H<sub>7</sub>N<sub>3</sub>O</td>
<td align="center" style="color:#222222">-</td>
<td align="center" style="color:#222222">-</td>
<td align="center" style="color:#222222">1.5</td>
<td align="center" style="color:#222222">-</td>
<td align="center" style="color:#222222">-</td>
<td align="center" style="color:#222222">-</td>
<td align="center" style="color:#222222">-</td>
<td align="left"/>
<td align="center" style="color:#222222">-</td>
<td align="center" style="color:#222222">-</td>
<td align="center" style="color:#222222">1.1</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td align="left" style="color:#222222">Na<sub>3</sub>C<sub>6</sub>H<sub>5</sub>O<sub>7</sub>
</td>
<td align="center" style="color:#222222">-</td>
<td align="center" style="color:#222222">-</td>
<td align="center" style="color:#222222">-</td>
<td align="center" style="color:#222222">-</td>
<td align="center" style="color:#222222">-</td>
<td align="center" style="color:#222222">-</td>
<td align="center" style="color:#222222">0.79</td>
<td align="left"/>
<td align="center" style="color:#222222">-</td>
<td align="center" style="color:#222222">-</td>
<td align="center" style="color:#222222">0.65</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td align="left" style="color:#222222">Na<sub>2</sub>C<sub>2</sub>O<sub>4</sub>
</td>
<td align="center" style="color:#222222">-</td>
<td align="center" style="color:#222222">-</td>
<td align="center" style="color:#222222">-</td>
<td align="center" style="color:#222222">-</td>
<td align="center" style="color:#222222">-</td>
<td align="center" style="color:#222222">-</td>
<td align="center" style="color:#222222">-</td>
<td align="left"/>
<td align="center" style="color:#222222">-</td>
<td align="center" style="color:#222222">-</td>
<td align="center" style="color:#222222">0.02</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td align="left" style="color:#222222">C<sub>2</sub>H<sub>3</sub>NaO<sub>2</sub>
</td>
<td align="left"/>
<td align="left"/>
<td align="left"/>
<td align="left"/>
<td align="left"/>
<td align="left"/>
<td align="left"/>
<td align="center" style="color:#222222">0.98</td>
<td align="left"/>
<td align="left"/>
<td align="left"/>
</tr>
<tr>
<td align="left" style="color:#222222">C&#x2082;H&#x2087;NO&#x2082;</td>
<td align="left"/>
<td align="left"/>
<td align="left"/>
<td align="left"/>
<td align="left"/>
<td align="left"/>
<td align="left"/>
<td align="center" style="color:#222222">2.20</td>
<td align="left"/>
<td align="left"/>
<td align="left"/>
</tr>
<tr>
<td align="left" style="color:#222222">C<sub>9</sub>H<sub>12</sub>N<sub>2</sub>O<sub>3</sub>
</td>
<td align="center" style="color:#222222">-</td>
<td align="center" style="color:#222222">-</td>
<td align="center" style="color:#222222">1.25</td>
<td align="center" style="color:#222222">-</td>
<td align="center" style="color:#222222">-</td>
<td align="center" style="color:#222222">-</td>
<td align="center" style="color:#222222">-</td>
<td align="left"/>
<td align="center" style="color:#222222">-</td>
<td align="center" style="color:#222222">-</td>
<td align="center" style="color:#222222">-</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td align="left" style="color:#222222">pH</td>
<td align="center" style="color:#222222">-</td>
<td align="center" style="color:#222222">-</td>
<td align="center" style="color:#222222">-</td>
<td align="center" style="color:#222222">-</td>
<td align="center" style="color:#222222">6</td>
<td align="center" style="color:#222222">6 .24</td>
<td align="center" style="color:#222222">6</td>
<td align="center" style="color:#222222">5.76</td>
<td align="center" style="color:#222222">7.08</td>
<td align="center" style="color:#222222">6.3</td>
<td align="center" style="color:#222222">-</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
</table-wrap>
</sec>
<sec id="s2">
<title>2 Real human urine metabolome vs. synthetic human urine metabolome</title>
<p>Urination is the primary route by which the human body eliminates water-soluble wastes. Urine is generated when the kidneys remove water, water-soluble wastes and sugars from the bloodstream. The urine matrix is extremely complex. The major inorganic components of urine include ions such as sodium, potassium, chloride and ammonium, while the major organic metabolites include urea, creatinine, hippuric acid and citric acid (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B48">Putnam, 1971</xref>; <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B6">Bouatra et al., 2013</xref>). Urine also normally contains several other ions, such as calcium, magnesium, phosphate and sulphate, as well as hundreds of metabolic breakdown products from the consumption of food and beverages, the body&#x2019;s endogenous waste and exogenous compounds such as pharmaceutical drugs or drug metabolites. The human urine metabolome database (<ext-link ext-link-type="uri" xlink:href="http://www.urinemetabolome.ca/">http://www.urinemetabolome.ca</ext-link>) lists more than 3,000 metabolites or metabolite species that have been detected in human urine using existing analytical methods and technologies, the majority of which are endogenous compounds. As illustrated in <xref ref-type="fig" rid="F1">Figure 1</xref>, metabolites in real human urine span a wide range of concentrations (nearly 11 orders of magnitude), chemical structures and solubilities (0.0012&#xa0;g/L for androsterone to 1000&#xa0;g/L for ethanolamine, according to Bouatra et al. (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B6">Bouatra et al., 2013</xref>)). The concentration of an average metabolite in normal human urine varies by &#xb1; 50% (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B6">Bouatra et al., 2013</xref>), because a wide range of factors, including diet, health, age, gender and activity level, determine the composition of urine (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B55">Rose et al., 2015</xref>). However, irrespective of the gender or time of the day when it is collected, urine contains more than 90 metabolites with 100% occurrence (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B6">Bouatra et al., 2013</xref>), but the concentrations always vary. According to Putnam (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B48">Putnam, 1971</xref>), 68 metabolites contribute &#x3e;99% of the solutes in human urine. In contrast, synthetic urine recipes in the sanitation field typically contain &#x3c;15 metabolites (<xref ref-type="table" rid="T1">Table 1</xref>).</p>
<fig id="F1" position="float">
<label>FIGURE 1</label>
<caption>
<p>Distribution (%) of organic metabolites measured in real human urine by Putnam (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B48">Putnam, 1971</xref>) according to their <bold>(A)</bold> chemical structure and <bold>(B)</bold> solubility in water at 25&#xb0;C. Standard solubility definitions were taken from WHO (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B81">WHO, 2022</xref>).</p>
</caption>
<graphic xlink:href="fenvs-12-1367982-g001.tif"/>
</fig>
<p>In published literature on wastewater treatment, it is common to encounter the use of <italic>synthetic urine or artificial urine,</italic> which is essentially a solution of the major inorganic and organic components in real urine, dissolved in water at room temperature. <xref ref-type="table" rid="T1">Table 1</xref> lists a small selection of recipes that have been used in different studies to prepare synthetic urine or are referred to in studies as human urine. While this list is certainly not exhaustive, it clearly shows that there is considerable variation in the choice of inorganic and organic ingredients used for making urine, with some recipes using just one metabolite (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B4">Asiain-Mira et al., 2022</xref>) and some using up to 11 metabolites (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B83">Wilsenach et al., 2007</xref>). Urine also has a natural bacterial biome (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B37">Lewis et al., 2013</xref>) and virome (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B38">Li et al., 2023</xref>) which is not accounted for by these recipes. Therefore, no synthetic urine recipe, however complex, can ever be truly representative of real human urine.</p>
</sec>
<sec id="s3">
<title>3 Definitions for different types of urine</title>
<p>It is important to distinguish what type of urine a recipe is attempting to mimic. <italic>Fresh urine</italic> refers to urine collected immediately after it is excreted, although there is no consensus within the research community on how long after excretion urine can be considered fresh. In the literature, some studies have used freshly excreted urine immediately in experiments (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B22">Flanagan and Randall, 2018</xref>) or have stored it for a few hours (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B76">Vasiljev et al., 2022</xref>) or days (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B63">Simha et al., 2018</xref>; <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B51">Ray et al., 2020</xref>) at different temperatures (3&#xb0;C&#x2013;30&#xb0;C) before use. However, in general the term &#x201c;fresh&#x201d; is typically used to indicate that no urea hydrolysis has occurred in urine. If fresh urine is diluted with flushwater, it is referred to as <italic>diluted fresh urine</italic> (<italic>e.g.</italic>, see synthetic recipe of Han et al. (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B29">Han et al., 2022</xref>) in <xref ref-type="table" rid="T1">Table 1</xref>). If fresh urine is treated to inhibit urease-catalysed hydrolysis of urea to ammonia, for instance by acidification (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B64">Simha et al., 2023</xref>), alkalisation (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B49">Randall et al., 2016</xref>) or oxidation (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B40">Lv et al., 2020</xref>), the literature defines it as <italic>stabilised fresh urine</italic>. If urea hydrolysis is not prevented and the majority of the nitrogen in urine is in the form of ammonia, then the urine is considered to be <italic>hydrolysed or ureolysed</italic> (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B71">Udert et al., 2003a</xref>). If all the urea excreted in fresh urine is not hydrolysed to ammonia, then the urine is considered to be <italic>partially hydrolysed</italic> (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B70">Tuantet et al., 2013</xref>). If hydrolysed urine is treated biologically to stabilise ammonia nitrogen, for instance by nitrification (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B74">Udert and Wachter, 2012</xref>), then literature defines it as <italic>biologically stabilised urine</italic>. However, studies using synthetic urine sometimes fail to report what type of urine their recipe represents. Each type of urine has a distinct composition and physical and chemical properties, and distinguishing between the types is important as it has implications for further urine treatment (see, <italic>e.g.</italic>, Simbeye et al. (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B60">Simbeye et al., 2023</xref>) for an insight into the effect of type of human urine on recovery of phosphate as vivianite). This is one area where the research community would benefit by working together to develop consistent terminology and best practices for reporting experiments involving human urine.</p>
</sec>
<sec id="s4">
<title>4 Implications of the differences between synthetic urine and real urine</title>
<p>To highlight some key differences between synthetic urine and real urine and the implications of these differences, we conducted a non-systemic literature review, the results of which are summarised below.</p>
<sec id="s4-1">
<title>4.1 Solubility of chemicals and buffering capacity of urine</title>
<p>Type of urine matrix affects the solubility of different chemicals and the capacity of urine to buffer changes in pH. For example, fresh urine can be dosed with sparingly soluble alkaline Earth chemicals such as Mg(OH)<sub>2</sub> and Ca(OH)<sub>2</sub> to inhibit urease activity and urea hydrolysis. However, Mg(OH)<sub>2</sub> is 40% less soluble in synthetic urine and, due to lower buffering capacity, also has higher pH (&#x3e;10.8) after treatment than real urine after treatment (pH &#x3c; 10.6) (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B62">Simha et al., 2022</xref>). Studies by Ray et al. (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B52">Ray et al., 2018</xref>) and <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B64">Simha et al. (2023)</xref> have shown that the acid dose needed to shift the pH of fresh urine to below 3.0 is at least two-fold higher for real urine. These are important observations since the stability of most urine treatment processes relies on accurately dosing chemicals. The operating costs of decentralised sanitation systems can also be significantly affected by the chemical demand for treating urine.</p>
<p>The prevailing pH affects both the solubility and the degradation of different organic metabolites in urine. For instance, the rate of degradation of creatine increases as the pH decreases (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B30">Jager et al., 2011</xref>). In studies on urine acidification and concentration by reverse osmosis, Courtney and Randall (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B14">Courtney and Randall, 2021b</xref>) have shown that crystals of uric acid dihydrate form in acidified real urine, but not in synthetic urine, resulting in scaling of the membrane surface. These observations are consistent with findings by Wang and K&#xf6;nigsberger (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B78">Wang and K&#xf6;nigsberger, 1998</xref>) that the solubility of uric acid decreases as the pH declines and ionic strength of the solution increases. These results suggest that reverse osmosis is not well suited for concentrating acidified urine, while other treatments such as evaporation are not significantly affected by biofouling and scaling. However, apart from three studies on reverse osmosis in the literature (viz. Ek et al. (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B20">Ek et al., 2006</xref>), Ray et al. (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B51">Ray et al., 2020</xref>), Courtney and Randall (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B14">Courtney and Randall, 2021b</xref>)), to our knowledge other studies have only used synthetic urine for experimentation.</p>
<p>Poorly soluble organic compounds tend to co-precipitate with inorganic compounds in real urine. In a study focusing on precipitation of phosphate from fresh urine as vivianite, Simbeye et al. (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B60">Simbeye et al., 2023</xref>) showed that relatively pure (95%) vivianite could be produced from synthetic urine, but that the purity of vivianite decreases to 75% when made from real urine. This is because organic metabolites in real urine form complexes with divalent ions such as Fe<sup>2&#x2b;</sup> and these complexes can grow around vivianite crystals (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B79">Wei et al., 2019</xref>) and limit its yield and purity. These differences ultimately affect process economics, as further treatment will be required to improve product purity (<italic>e.g</italic>., washing vivianite with solvents to selectively remove organic compounds).</p>
</sec>
<sec id="s4-2">
<title>4.2 Dissolved organic compounds and membrane fouling</title>
<p>Many synthetic urine recipes (<xref ref-type="table" rid="T1">Table 1</xref>) are made up of salts to replicate the major inorganic metabolites in urine. However, real urine also has a high organic component (about 10&#xa0;g COD L<sup>-1</sup> according to (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B73">Udert et al., 2006</xref>) or approximately 25% of the total dissolved solids estimated by Putnam (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B48">Putnam, 1971</xref>)). A research area where the missing organics in synthetic urine leads to significantly differing experimental results is in membrane research (reverse osmosis, nanofiltration, membrane distillation, etc.), specifically with regards to membrane fouling. For example, during membrane distillation, a crystalline deposit forms on the membrane when synthetic urine is used, while with real urine the deposit that forms is more complex and composed of a rich organic fraction (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B33">Kamranvand et al., 2018</xref>). Bacteria (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B16">Crane et al., 2022</xref>) and a combination of urinary sugars and protein (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B28">Guizani et al., 2016</xref>) have been shown to cause membrane fouling when urine is concentrated by forward osmosis. Zhang et al. (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B87">Zhang et al., 2023</xref>) found that fouling of a hollow fibre membrane contactor for treating real hydrolysed urine increases as the pH of urine decreases.</p>
<p>The solubility (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B23">Franks et al., 2024</xref>) and the charge (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B80">Wen-Qiong et al., 2019</xref>) of organic compounds are both affected by pH. If the charge on the membrane is the same as the charge on an organic compound, electrostatic repulsion between the organic compound and the membrane pores will increase, thus reducing the potential for fouling (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B75">Van Reis et al., 1997</xref>). Higher solubility means that a higher urine concentration factor can be achieved during treatment before organic compounds precipitate. The properties of the feed solution (pH, ionic strength) and the membrane (charge, hydrophobicity, roughness) affect thermodynamic interactions between dissolved organic compounds and the membrane surface, and influence the mechanisms that cause fouling (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B68">Tang et al., 2011</xref>).</p>
<p>Experimental results obtained when treating real urine are not always inferior to those obtained when treating synthetic urine. Studies by Courtney and Randall (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B14">Courtney and Randall, 2021b</xref>) and Pronk et al. (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B47">Pronk et al., 2006</xref>) observed increased rejection of urea during membrane treatment of real urine. Courtney and Randall (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B14">Courtney and Randall, 2021b</xref>) found that improved rejection of urea increased overall urea recovery from 79.2% to 85.5% when comparing synthetic urine and real urine. Pronk et al. (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B47">Pronk et al., 2006</xref>) attributed the increase in rejection of uncharged molecules such as urea to complexation of compounds with the organic substances in real urine. There is also evidence that urea promotes protein unfolding by directly interacting with polar moieties of proteins via hydrogen bonding (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B5">Bennion and Daggett, 2003</xref>). Unfortunately, synthetic urine cannot be improved by merely adding organics to the recipe used, as in many of these cases the exact organic compounds causing the fouling have not yet been identified (only that they are organic is known) (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B14">Courtney and Randall, 2021b</xref>; <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B16">Crane et al., 2022</xref>). In these cases, using both real and synthetic urine for experiments becomes valuable for comparing fouling (or lack thereof).</p>
</sec>
<sec id="s4-3">
<title>4.3 Thermodynamic modelling of chemical speciation in urine</title>
<p>All models used to simulate a process in urine essentially model synthetic urine. As with making synthetic urine, it is challenging to include every metabolite excreted in real urine in a thermodynamic model. Many modelling databases do not include a comprehensive list of urinary metabolites. For example, the chemistry database of the thermodynamic modelling software OLI (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B43">OLI Systems and Inc, 2020</xref>) does not include major organic metabolites excreted in urine, such as creatine, creatinine and uric acid. The importance of including or excluding a metabolite will depend on the parameter being measured/simulated. Udert et al. (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B72">Udert et al., 2003b</xref>) developed a model using Aquasim to estimate the potential for mineral precipitation in sanitation systems that separately collect human urine and found good agreement between simulated and experimental results when the degree of dilution of urine by flushwater was accurately accounted for. Courtney et al. (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B12">Courtney et al., 2021</xref>) used the same thermodynamic model (in Aquasim) to simulate removal of calcium from human urine by air and CO<sub>2</sub> bubbling and found that initially the model did not accurately simulate the pH of urine as a function of bubbling duration. They attributed this to the salinity of urine influencing the pK<sub>a</sub> of HCO<sub>3</sub>
<sup>&#x2212;</sup>/CO<sub>3</sub>
<sup>&#x2212;2</sup> (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B42">Millero et al., 2006</xref>) and to inclusion of creatinine in the model affecting the buffering capacity of urine at pH 9.2. When adjusted for these two factors, the model accurately captured the change in pH of urine during bubbling (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B12">Courtney et al., 2021</xref>). Inaccurate simulation of chemical speciation in urine and using synthetic human urine with only a few metabolites therefore have implications for the design of experiments and treatment processes (<italic>e.g</italic>., operating conditions such as pH and temperature), and for analysis of experimental results (<italic>e.g</italic>., when evaluating the form and fate of plant-essential nutrients excreted in urine after treatment).</p>
</sec>
<sec id="s4-4">
<title>4.4 Removal of pollutants from urine</title>
<p>Several previous studies have used synthetic urine to evaluate removal of pollutants that can potentially be excreted in urine, such as residues and metabolites of pharmaceutical drugs, pesticides, hormones, personal care products, chemicals used for cleaning toilets and heavy metals (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B34">Landry et al., 2015</xref>; <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B67">Sun et al., 2018</xref>; <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B2">Almuntashiri et al., 2022</xref>; <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B25">Goulart et al., 2022</xref>; <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B54">Rodriguez et al., 2022</xref>; <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B85">Yao et al., 2022</xref>). Many of these are presented as proof-of-concept studies, and there are often no follow-up studies to evaluate whether the treatments can be replicated with a real urine matrix. In some follow-up studies, clear and significant deviations have been observed between studies, primarily because of differences between the urine matrices. There is evidence that analytical detection of pollutants is significantly affected by the type of matrix studied. For instance, ionisation of the target analytes in LC-MS/MS can be affected by endogenous compounds present in urine (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B56">Rossmann et al., 2015</xref>). The matrix can also affect the removal efficiency of pollutants because the physical and chemical properties of real urine are different from those of synthetic urine, and no synthetic recipe has been developed to account for the hundreds of endogenous organic metabolites excreted in urine (<xref ref-type="fig" rid="F1">Figure 1</xref>). For example, Solanki and Boyer (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B65">Solanki and Boyer, 2017</xref>) found that &#x3e;90% removal of pharmaceuticals from synthetic urine could be achieved by adsorption onto biochar. However, in follow-up studies involving real urine, they found that removal of pharmaceuticals declined to 40% because of competition for adsorption sites by dissolved organic compounds naturally excreted in urine, such as urobilin (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B66">Solanki and Boyer, 2019</xref>). In a study evaluating degradation of 75 organic micropollutants (OMPs) by a UV-based advanced oxidation process, Demissie et al. (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B17">Demissie et al., 2023a</xref>) observed average &#x3a3;OMP degradation of 99% (&#xb1;4%) in Milli-Q water, but only 55% (&#xb1;36%) in real fresh urine. This is because endogenous organic compounds in urine can competitively absorb UV light (creatinine and amino acids have high UV absorbability according to Yokoyama et al. (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B86">Yokoyama et al., 2005</xref>)) and can scavenge free radicals. In another study, Demissie et al. (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B18">Demissie et al., 2023b</xref>) found that the UV dose needed to irreversibly denature jack bean (<italic>Canavalia ensiformis</italic>) urease (EC 3.5.1.5) in real fresh human urine was 25-fold higher than the dose needed to denature urease in synthetic fresh human urine. Unfortunately, there seems to be more literature available on treatment of synthetic human urine than on treatment of real human urine for removal of contaminants such as micropollutants.</p>
</sec>
</sec>
<sec id="s5">
<title>5 Why and when to use synthetic urine for experimentation?</title>
<p>While synthetic urine is not exactly representative of real urine, it does have many uses and benefits. Below we list a few valid reasons why synthetic urine may be used in research:<list list-type="simple">
<list-item>
<p>1. The composition of real urine varies considerably, as it is influenced by diet, health, age, gender, activity level of people and other factors (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B55">Rose et al., 2015</xref>). The composition of synthetic urine can be fixed, which can be desirable when conducting experiments to evaluate the influence of several operating conditions on treatment objectives (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B69">Tarpeh et al., 2018</xref>). The experimental results obtained when synthetic urine is used are generally more consistent than results obtained using real urine with varying composition (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B32">Kabda&#x15f;l&#x131; et al., 2022</xref>).</p>
</list-item>
<list-item>
<p>2. The use of synthetic urine is appropriate in proof-of-concept research that proposes novel technologies and methods to treat urine, <italic>e.g.</italic>, Arve and Popat (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B3">Arve and Popat, 2021</xref>). If experimentation using synthetic urine yields undesirable results, then further testing can be avoided, and time and resources can be saved. For instance, Ray et al. (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B52">Ray et al., 2018</xref>) showed that zinc and silver ions are not effective inhibitors of urease in synthetic fresh urine as they precipitate with phosphate and chloride naturally present in urine, although the inhibition of urease in soil by these heavy metal ions is well established.</p>
</list-item>
<list-item>
<p>3. Using a synthetic recipe makes it easier to reverse-engineer processes and identify metabolites or properties of urine that significantly affect the outcome of a treatment (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B66">Solanki and Boyer, 2019</xref>). In addition, different technologies can be more fairly compared against each other if the same synthetic urine recipe is used to evaluate their differences (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B9">Chen et al., 2023</xref>).</p>
</list-item>
<list-item>
<p>4. Synthetic urine can be helpful for developing new analytical methods for targeted analysis of metabolites (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B58">Scherr and Sarmah, 2011</xref>) and for educational purposes where the aim is to train students in analytical chemistry or wastewater engineering.</p>
</list-item>
<list-item>
<p>5. Computer-based thermodynamic models of chemical speciation must be validated in real experiments (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B15">Courtney and Randall, 2023</xref>). Synthetic urine is particularly helpful in such cases since it is not always possible to conduct a full metabolomic analysis of real urine. Many metabolites also do not exist in the chemistry databases of software tools.</p>
</list-item>
</list>
</p>
</sec>
<sec id="s6">
<title>6 Guidelines on protocols for preparing synthetic fresh human urine</title>
<p>As shown in <xref ref-type="table" rid="T1">Table 1</xref>, several recipes for preparing synthetic human urine are found in the water and sanitation literature. However, to the best of our knowledge, none of these recipes use well-established protocols for preparing synthetic urine, (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B39">Lienert and Larsen, 2009</xref>; <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B31">Jewitt, 2011</xref>; <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B24">Furlong et al., 2019</xref>; <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B61">Simha et al., 2021</xref>), nor have they been validated by comparison with real urine specimens. On the other hand, there is extensive literature in the medical sciences focusing on the development of protocols for synthetic urine preparation in various research domains, including urology (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B59">Shafat et al., 2013</xref>), dermatology (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B41">Mayrovitz and Sims, 2001</xref>) and nephrology (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B7">Brooks and Keevil, 1997</xref>). These protocols have typically been designed to allow investigation of specific aspects, such as the formation of kidney stones (<italic>e.g.</italic>, calcium oxalate dihydrate) in urine, study of renal physiology using <italic>in vitro</italic> cell culture (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B11">Chutipongtanate and Thongboonkerd, 2010</xref>), urinary tract infections and growth of urinary pathogens (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B7">Brooks and Keevil, 1997</xref>). More recent efforts have developed protocols for synthetic urine preparation that are not specific to an application, (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B11">Chutipongtanate and Thongboonkerd, 2010</xref>; <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B57">Sarigul et al., 2019</xref>), and can be more universally used across research disciplines (<xref ref-type="table" rid="T2">Table 2</xref>). In fact, <xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B57">Sarigul et al. (2019)</xref> have shown that, by using attenuated total reflection-Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (ATR-FTIR), their synthetic urine comes closest to mimicking real urine. This recipe differs from many of those presented in <xref ref-type="table" rid="T1">Table 1</xref> in two ways. First, it does not just include major inorganic metabolites and urea, but also major organic metabolites like creatinine, uric acid, citrate, and oxalate, which are normally excreted in real urine. Secondly, the recipe adds both NaH<sub>2</sub>PO<sub>4</sub>&#xb7;2H<sub>2</sub>O and Na<sub>2</sub>HPO<sub>4</sub>&#xb7;2H<sub>2</sub>O which more accurately reflects the speciation of phosphate in real fresh urine, which eliminates the need for adding HCl or NaOH to adjust the pH of urine. Their protocol is also practical as it does not contain an unreasonable number of metabolites (&#x3c;15). Therefore, to urine researchers working in the sanitation space, we recommend using the protocol developed by Sarigul, et al. (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B57">Sarigul et al., 2019</xref>) for preparing synthetic urine. However, considering that the concentration of different metabolites in urine varies (e.g., between 9.3 and 23.3&#xa0;g&#xa0;L<sup>-1</sup> for urea according to Putnam (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B48">Putnam, 1971</xref>)), we also suggest researchers to adjust the protocol (as shown by the &#x201c;adjusted Putnam&#x201d; recipe in <xref ref-type="table" rid="T2">Table 2</xref>) to prepare synthetic urine that accurately represents real urine produced in various geographical contexts. The key components of any synthetic urine recipe should include all major inorganic ions (Na<sup>&#x2b;</sup>, K<sup>&#x2b;</sup>, Mg<sup>2&#x2b;</sup>, Ca<sup>2&#x2b;</sup>, NH<sub>4</sub>
<sup>&#x2b;</sup>, Cl<sup>&#x2212;</sup>, SO<sub>4</sub>
<sup>2-</sup>, PO<sub>4</sub>-P), and all major organic metabolites (urea, creatinine, uric acid, citrate, and oxalic acid).</p>
<table-wrap id="T2" position="float">
<label>TABLE 2</label>
<caption>
<p>Concentrations of different constituents in a selection of <italic>synthetic human urine</italic> recipes described in the medical sciences literature. To urine researchers working in the sanitation space, we recommend using the protocol developed by (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B57">Sarigul et al., 2019</xref>) and adapt it to account for variation in concentration of different metabolites excreted in urine. &#x201c;Putnam adapted&#x201d; shows the minimum and maximum acceptable limits for concentration of major metabolites in urine.</p>
</caption>
<table>
<thead valign="top">
<tr>
<th rowspan="2" align="left">
<bold>Concentration [g/L]</bold>
</th>
<th rowspan="2" align="center">
<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B8">
<bold>Brown et al. (1989)</bold>
</xref>
</th>
<th rowspan="2" align="center">
<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B44">
<bold>Opalko et al. (1997)</bold>
</xref>
</th>
<th rowspan="2" align="center">
<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B7">
<bold>Brooks and Keevil (1997)</bold>
</xref>
</th>
<th rowspan="2" align="center">
<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B26">
<bold>Grases and Llobera (1998)</bold>
</xref>
</th>
<th rowspan="2" align="center">
<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B41">
<bold>Mayrovitz and Sims (2001)</bold>
</xref>
</th>
<th rowspan="2" align="center">
<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B10">
<bold>Christmas et al. (2002)</bold>
</xref>
</th>
<th rowspan="2" align="center">
<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B11">
<bold>Chutipongtanate and Thongboonkerd (2010)</bold>
</xref>
</th>
<th rowspan="2" align="center">
<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B57">
<bold>Sarigul et al. (2019)</bold>
</xref>
</th>
<th colspan="2" align="center">
<bold>
<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B48">Putnam (1971)</xref> adapted</bold>
</th>
</tr>
<tr>
<th align="center">
<bold>Low range</bold>
</th>
<th align="left">
<bold>High range</bold>
</th>
</tr>
</thead>
<tbody valign="top">
<tr>
<td align="left">CH<sub>4</sub>N<sub>2</sub>O</td>
<td align="center">-</td>
<td align="center">-</td>
<td align="center">10.21</td>
<td align="center">-</td>
<td align="center">24.98</td>
<td align="center">-</td>
<td align="center">12.01</td>
<td align="center">15</td>
<td align="center">9.3</td>
<td align="center">23.3</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td align="left">C<sub>5</sub>H<sub>4</sub>N<sub>4</sub>O<sub>3</sub>
</td>
<td align="center">-</td>
<td align="center">-</td>
<td align="left"/>
<td align="center">-</td>
<td align="center">-</td>
<td align="center">-</td>
<td align="center">0.17</td>
<td align="center">0.25</td>
<td align="center">0.04</td>
<td align="center">0.67</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td align="left">C<sub>4</sub>H<sub>7</sub>N<sub>3</sub>O</td>
<td align="center">-</td>
<td align="center">-</td>
<td align="center">0.79</td>
<td align="center">-</td>
<td align="center">2.00</td>
<td align="center">-</td>
<td align="center">0.45</td>
<td align="center">0.88</td>
<td align="center">0.67</td>
<td align="center">2.15</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td align="left">Na<sub>3</sub>C<sub>6</sub>H<sub>5</sub>O<sub>7</sub>
</td>
<td align="center">0.83</td>
<td align="center">0.83</td>
<td align="center">0.52</td>
<td align="center">-</td>
<td align="center">-</td>
<td align="center">-</td>
<td align="center">1.29</td>
<td align="center">-</td>
<td align="center">-</td>
<td align="left"/>
</tr>
<tr>
<td align="left">NaCl</td>
<td align="center">6.17</td>
<td align="center">6.17</td>
<td align="center">5.26</td>
<td align="center">13.12</td>
<td align="center">9.00</td>
<td align="center">6.17</td>
<td align="center">3.16</td>
<td align="center">1.76</td>
<td align="center">1.19</td>
<td align="center">5.70</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td align="left">KCl</td>
<td align="center">4.75</td>
<td align="center">4.75</td>
<td align="center">-</td>
<td align="center">12.11</td>
<td align="center">-</td>
<td align="center">4.75</td>
<td align="center">2.24</td>
<td align="center">2.31</td>
<td align="center">1.43</td>
<td align="center">4.93</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td align="left">NH<sub>4</sub>Cl</td>
<td align="center">1.48</td>
<td align="center">-</td>
<td align="center">1.34</td>
<td align="center">0.46</td>
<td align="center">2.57</td>
<td align="center">1.94</td>
<td align="center">0.80</td>
<td align="center">1.27</td>
<td align="center">0.63</td>
<td align="center">2.30</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td align="left">CaCl<sub>2</sub>
</td>
<td align="center">0.64</td>
<td align="center">-</td>
<td align="center">0.28</td>
<td align="center">0.67</td>
<td align="center">-</td>
<td align="left"/>
<td align="center">0.33</td>
<td align="center">0.19</td>
<td align="center">0.08</td>
<td align="center">1.08</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td align="left">MgSO<sub>4</sub>
</td>
<td align="center">4.63</td>
<td align="center">0.46</td>
<td align="center">0.24</td>
<td align="center">0.71</td>
<td align="center">-</td>
<td align="center">0.46</td>
<td align="center">0.24</td>
<td align="center">-</td>
<td align="center">-</td>
<td align="center">-</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td align="left">NaHCO<sub>3</sub>
</td>
<td align="left"/>
<td align="center">-</td>
<td align="center">2.10</td>
<td align="center">-</td>
<td align="center">-</td>
<td align="center">-</td>
<td align="center">0.17</td>
<td align="center">-</td>
<td align="center">-</td>
<td align="center">-</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td align="left">Na<sub>2</sub>C<sub>2</sub>O<sub>4</sub>
</td>
<td align="center">0.04</td>
<td align="center">-</td>
<td align="center">-</td>
<td align="center">0.08</td>
<td align="center">-</td>
<td align="center">-</td>
<td align="center">0.01</td>
<td align="center">-</td>
<td align="center">-</td>
<td align="center">-</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td align="left">Na<sub>2</sub>SO<sub>4</sub>
</td>
<td align="left"/>
<td align="center">2.41</td>
<td align="center">1.42</td>
<td align="center">4.86</td>
<td align="center">3.00</td>
<td align="center">2.41</td>
<td align="center">1.28</td>
<td align="center">1.7</td>
<td align="center">0.24</td>
<td align="center">2.36</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td align="left">NaH<sub>2</sub>PO<sub>4</sub>
</td>
<td align="center">3.88</td>
<td align="center">0.39</td>
<td align="center">0.84</td>
<td align="center">0.41</td>
<td align="center">2.11</td>
<td align="center">3.88</td>
<td align="center">0.43</td>
<td align="center">-</td>
<td align="center">-</td>
<td align="left"/>
</tr>
<tr>
<td align="left">Na<sub>2</sub>HPO<sub>4</sub>
</td>
<td align="center">-</td>
<td align="center">-</td>
<td align="center">0.99</td>
<td align="center">1.49</td>
<td align="center">-</td>
<td align="center">-</td>
<td align="center">0.06</td>
<td align="center">-</td>
<td align="center">-</td>
<td align="left"/>
</tr>
<tr>
<td align="left">K<sub>2</sub>C<sub>2</sub>O<sub>4</sub>.H<sub>2</sub>O</td>
<td align="center">-</td>
<td align="center">-</td>
<td align="center">-</td>
<td align="center">-</td>
<td align="center">-</td>
<td align="center">-</td>
<td align="center">-</td>
<td align="center">0.035</td>
<td align="center">0.12</td>
<td align="center">0.06</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td align="left">Na<sub>3</sub>C<sub>6</sub>H<sub>5</sub>O<sub>7</sub>&#xb7;2H<sub>2</sub>O</td>
<td align="center">-</td>
<td align="center">-</td>
<td align="center">-</td>
<td align="center">-</td>
<td align="center">-</td>
<td align="center">-</td>
<td align="center">-</td>
<td align="center">0.72</td>
<td align="center">0.002</td>
<td align="center">1.25</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td align="left">MgSO<sub>4</sub>&#xb7;7H<sub>2</sub>O</td>
<td align="center">-</td>
<td align="center">-</td>
<td align="center">-</td>
<td align="center">-</td>
<td align="center">-</td>
<td align="center">-</td>
<td align="center">-</td>
<td align="center">1.08</td>
<td align="center">0.05</td>
<td align="center">0.53</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td align="left">NaH<sub>2</sub>PO<sub>4</sub>&#xb7;2H<sub>2</sub>O</td>
<td align="center">-</td>
<td align="center">-</td>
<td align="center">-</td>
<td align="center">-</td>
<td align="center">-</td>
<td align="center">-</td>
<td align="center">-</td>
<td align="center">2.91</td>
<td align="center">1.89</td>
<td align="center">4.31</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td align="left">Na<sub>2</sub>HPO<sub>4</sub>&#xb7;2H<sub>2</sub>O</td>
<td align="center">-</td>
<td align="center">-</td>
<td align="center">-</td>
<td align="center">-</td>
<td align="center">-</td>
<td align="center">-</td>
<td align="center">-</td>
<td align="center">0.83</td>
<td align="center">0.54</td>
<td align="center">1.23</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
</table-wrap>
<p>There are several sub-topics in sanitation-focused urine research, including the recovery of plant-essential nutrients and energy, removal of micropollutants, and inactivation of pathogens. These would need to be considered when adapting and using such a protocol. It is always possible to add more metabolites to synthetic urine depending on the question at hand (e.g., Brooks and Keevil (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B7">Brooks and Keevil, 1997</xref>) added bacteriological peptone to account for amino acids and short chain peptides and yeast extract to account for nucleic acids excreted in urine, respectively). This can be particularly relevant when experimentation involves developing methods to reduce malodour from urine-separating toilets or light irradiation to degrade pollutants in urine, as all protocols for making synthetic urine produce odourless and colourless urine.</p>
</sec>
<sec id="s7">
<title>7 Conclusion and the way forward</title>
<p>Research on innovative technologies to recycle the resources in human urine is highly relevant for achieving a sustainable future and circular economy in the sanitation space. As such research has real-life implications, it is critical to constantly evaluate methods and methodological choices used in experimentation on this topic. One such choice that researchers must make is whether to use synthetic urine or real human urine. In this article, we argue that it can be difficult to accurately replicate the complex metabolome and properties of real urine using a synthetic recipe. We provide select examples from literature to suggest that results obtained when synthetic urine is used can differ from those obtained when real urine is used. In some cases, results of experiments conducted with real urine are not as promising as those achieved with synthetic urine, but publication of negative results is still to the benefit of the entire research community. While there are several benefits and valid reasons for using synthetic urine in research, some of which we present in this article, we have also noted a lack of consistency in the protocols for preparing synthetic urine in sanitation research. To address this, we provide suggestions and preliminary guidelines on protocols for preparing and using artificial urine, inspired by literature from the medical sciences. We hope that this article initiates a discussion on methodological choices in urine research among the community engaged with decentralised sanitation systems. Overall, we have the following recommendations:<list list-type="simple">
<list-item>
<p>1. Whenever it is feasible, work with real urine. Urine can be collected in a depersonalised manner from several donors and pooled together. Increasing the number of donors or the collection period for urine can mitigate issues related to variability in urine composition.</p>
</list-item>
<list-item>
<p>2. When preparing synthetic urine, use protocols that have been evaluated and validated with real urine, such as the protocol outlined by (<xref ref-type="bibr" rid="B57">Sarigul et al., 2019</xref>) (See <xref ref-type="table" rid="T2">Table 2</xref>). Modify the protocol as shown in &#x201c;Putnam adapted&#x201d; in <xref ref-type="table" rid="T2">Table 2</xref> to make synthetic urine that is representative of real urine produced in various geographical contexts. Include or exclude specific metabolites from the protocol depending on the research question, as this can be important when assessing different topics in sanitation-focused urine research, such as the degradation of micropollutants.</p>
</list-item>
<list-item>
<p>3. Follow up an experiment involving synthetic urine that yielded positive results with an experiment using real human urine, ideally within the same study. In studies where results of only synthetic urine are reported, authors should try to hypothesize how their results could differ in case real urine is used, raise any potential aspects that could be of concern, and recommend follow-up studies to use real urine to validate these hypotheses and/or confirm that similar results with real urine can be achieved.</p>
</list-item>
<list-item>
<p>4. Always clearly state in the article title, abstract and conclusions whether real or synthetic/artificial urine was used in experiments. In addition, specify within the article the type of urine used/replicated in the study (see <xref ref-type="sec" rid="s3">Section 3</xref> for definitions).</p>
</list-item>
<list-item>
<p>5. Work together as a community to develop terminology, definitions, methodologies and best practices for experimental work involving human urine.</p>
</list-item>
</list>
</p>
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<sec sec-type="data-availability" id="s8">
<title>Data availability statement</title>
<p>The original contributions presented in the study are included in the article/<xref ref-type="sec" rid="s13">Supplementary Material</xref>, further inquiries can be directed to the corresponding author.</p>
</sec>
<sec id="s9">
<title>Author contributions</title>
<p>PS: Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal Analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Validation, Visualization, Writing&#x2013;original draft, Writing&#x2013;review and editing. CC: Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal Analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing&#x2013;original draft, Writing&#x2013;review and editing. DR: Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Writing&#x2013;original draft, Writing&#x2013;review and editing.</p>
</sec>
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