New Method of Turning Sewage Sludge into Biodiesel is Low-Cost, High-Yield

treehugger.com 28 Sep '12, 6pm

New Method of Turning Sewage Sludge into Biodiesel is Low-Cost, High-Yield

© ACS I have a love/hate affair with biofuels and biodiesel, because while they may be cleaner than petro-fuels, and considered a renewable resource, growing the feedstock usually entails a lot of land and a lot of water, both of which are limited resources. But if a new process for making biodiesel from sewage sludge gets commercialized, every flush of the toilet could be helping to fuel some of our energy needs. A team of researchers in South Korea have developed a new process for converting the lipids in sewage sludge into biodiesel, at not only a lower cost than conventional biodiesel, but with much higher yields. The team, working out of the Research Institute of Industrial Science and Technology, found that the sewage sludge produced 2,200 times more lipids per gram than soybeans, and at a much lower cost. "Each liter of lipids that the researchers extracted from slu...

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RT @JHUSayers: Not technically a biofuel application, but towards the same goals... [link] Already being done in New Zealand? #JHUBiofuels
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Not technically a biofuel application, but towards the same goals... [link] Already being done in New Zealand? #JHUBiofuels
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RT @bobbrierley: New Method of Turning Sewage Sludge into Biodiesel is Low-Cost, High-Yield [link]
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RT @RodaleInstitute: RT @RodaleInstitute: Much better! Would rather see sewage sludge used as a biodiesel than an agricultural amendment. [link]
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Much better! Would rather see sewage sludge used as a biodiesel than an agricultural amendment. [link]
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RT @LeslieSNC: RT @LeslieSNC: RT @TreeHugger: So, using sewage sludge is actually a great way to make low-cost, high-yield biodiesel [link]
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