(Worthy Insights) – Washington State University has transformed sewage sludge’s environmental liability into a valuable energy asset.
A successful pilot program has validated a dual-benefit method for wastewater management: it produces cleaner natural gas more efficiently and lowers the overall cost of waste disposal.
Interestingly, the local sewage sludge was pretreated, resulting in a 200 percent increase in renewable natural gas production while cutting disposal costs in half. [ Source (Read More…) ]
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