Thursday, 3 November 2016

Mimicking nature turns sewage into biocrude oil in minutes

Sludge from Metro Vancouver’s wastewater treatment plant has been dewatered prior to conversion to biocrude oil ...

Biofuels are often touted as an alternative to fossil fuels, but many depend on raw materials that would quickly become scarce if production were scaled up. As an alternative to these alternatives, the US Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) has found a way to potentially produce 30 million barrels of biocrude oil per year from the 34 billion gal (128 billion liters) of raw sewage that Americans create every day.

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