ODU experiment on turning sewage into algae-based biodiesel is flourishing

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Originally Posted by SteveKran

Not all waste water treatment plants have them. I used to work for a company that had 8 WWTP's and none of them burned methane.

The landfill that we took the "sludge" (dried up solids) to did have a methane flame burning, but it wasn't very big.

Yeah it depends on the plant and what process they use. Plants that you see a methane stack is a anerobic process. I work at a plant that is a aerobic oxidation plant. Basically in laymans terms an anerobic plant you don't use disolved oxygen to keep the bugs alive to eat the poo. Anerobic is without oxygen or bugs that don't need it to break down the wastewater and methane gas is one of the byproducts of the digestion

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There was a segment on Invention Nation about this topic yesterday. I watched it and it looks like promising future for diesel power.

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Wouldn't it be nice to see the oil cartel be brought down by algae?