A Green Hydrogen Twofer: Waste Management Plus Animal Feed
The global green hydrogen industry is getting a wastewater makeover, with the potential to produce protein for animal feed in addition to hydrogen.
The global green hydrogen industry is getting a wastewater makeover, with the potential to produce protein for animal feed in addition to hydrogen.
A team of researchers from the University of Nevada at Reno is out to prove that sludge from wastewater treatment plants can be dried, powdered, gassified as biofuel, and then burned to generate electricity, which in turn can run equipment at the treatment plant. Talk about having your cake and eating it, too!
The sewage-to-biofuel field is attracting interest from major companies like Waste Management and startups like InfoSpi, which are betting that renewable sewage biodiesel can become competitive with petroleum diesel on price. Now the American Chemical Society has published an article* on sewage biodiesel that bears out this promise. The article … [continued]
They prefer to call it wastewater, but the bottom line is that researchers at the University of Nevada are close to commercializing a process for generating renewable energy from sewage sludge. The energy could be used to run equipment at the plants, which is a big deal because sewage treatment … [continued]