“…Sewage from universities has characteristics that may differ from the typical composition mentioned for domestic wastewater in cities, due to the possible contribution of laboratories and university hospitals. Campos et al (2020), for example, characterized the raw sewage from WWTP-UFLA and found chemical oxygen demand (COD) concentrations, total solids (TS), volatile solids (VS), total nitrogen Kjeldahl (TNK) and alkalinity of 847, 986, 550, 154 and 528 mg.L -1 , respectively. For comparison purposes, typical values for domestic sewage are, in the same order, 600, 1100, 620, 45 and 200 mg.L -1 , indicating composition with a high presence of ions, therefore reflecting high concentrations of nitrogen and alkalinity, and COD, which could suffer interference from some reduced ions (AQUINO et al, 2006), above what is commonly found.…”