Does the salinity in seawater affect the process of alkaline hydrolysis? I am an architecture student doing a project on crematorium spaces. I am looking at resomation or alkaline hydrolysis as an alternative method of disposition of a body. From what I gather from research, the funeral parlours offering the resomation service uses 80 gallons/ 300 L of water for each body. I am just wondering if in theory such an enormous amount of water could be replaced with seawater? Or does the salinity or pH of seawater inhibit the process?
I believe that desalination would be necessary as the salinity of the seawater would interfere with the earth metal salts already utilized to perform the process of alkaline hydrolysis.