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Wastewater treatment plants can become sustainable biorefineries
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2018-12-18
发布年2018
语种英语
国家美国
领域地球科学
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In the future, wastewater treatment plants can have a broader function by being converted into biorefineries.

All of the world's produce large quantities of sewage sludge, used today to produce biogas. In the future, treatment plants can have a broader function by being converted into biorefineries for the production of everything from biogas to different new materials.

Researchers in Resource Recovery at the University of Borås, Sweden, plan to validate a new concept in which they produce and extract using membrane bioreactors, which in turn are used to produce the substances and hydrogen.

Today, and sludge from wastewater treatment plants are being used to produce biogas, but biogas competes with other energy types, such as and solar energy, which makes the production of biogas alone limiting.

"But with our technology, we can develop a platform so that the treatment plants can be transformed into refineries where different chemical substances can be extracted and used to produce different types of materials. Fatty acids are a kind of intermediate product," explains Mohammad Taherzadeh, Professor in Bioprocess Technology, who heads the project.

Fatty acids can be further processed

Fatty acids have a function similar to that of sugar in various petrochemical and , namely, as sustenance for the microbes used in the processes. The successful production and extraction of fatty acids allows for further processing of these substances to other products, such as bioplastics or butanol. The amount of sewage sludge remaining in the process can be used as substrate – that is, the material that is to be converted – in a biorefinery.

"Another feature of the method is that carbon contained in the sludge can be extracted, and therefore there can be a circular process in which the carbon is used to remove nitrogen and phosphorus from the wastewater, and which we do not want to get into our waterways, as it leads to eutrophication. Today, treatment plants purchase large quantities of carbon for this process."

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