Existing technology can produce biodiesel fuel from municipal sewage sludge that is within a few cents a gallon of being competitive with conventional diesel refined from petroleum, according to ...

These days, more and more companies are finding that sewage is a veritable “black gold.” In recent years, sewage sludge has been mined for electricity, fertilizer, fish food, and gasoline. Now ...

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Corinne Drennan, a bioenergy technologies researcher at PNNL, said in a statement, “There is plenty of carbon in municipal wastewater sludge and interestingly, there are also fats.

Dewatered sludge from Vancouver’s wastewater treatment plant. (Vancouver B.C. will soon use science from the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory in Richland, Wash., to create biofuels out of ...

From roughly 400 liters of sewer sludge, you get one gallon of biodiesel. Plug in this technology to half of the nation’s wastewater facilities, and you’re looking at 5.4 million gallons of ...

Although biodiesel from sludge has been researched before, South Korean researchers at the Research Institute of Industrial Science and Technology figured out a new way to extract lipids, the ...

A Scottish biodiesel company was one of the first to suggest excavating and processing a 286,601-pound fatberg, known as the Whitechapel fatberg, found in London in September 2017, according to a ...

Sewage sludge leads to biofuels breakthrough ... Beller was motivated to investigate bio-based toluene after reading literature reports from the 1980s that revealed microbial toluene biosynthesis ...

But moving from discovery in a single bacterial species, to discovery in a complex microbial community from sewage sludge or lake sediments, was more difficult by orders of magnitude,” says Beller.

Scientists have discovered a new enzyme that will enable microbial production of a renewable alternative to petroleum-based toluene, a widely used octane boos ...

Researchers have discovered a new enzyme that will enable microbial production of a renewable alternative to petroleum-based toluene, a widely used octane booster in gasoline that has a global market ...