[Digestion] Biogas from sewage plants

Harmon Seaver hseaver at gmail.com
Wed Sep 12 11:30:16 EDT 2007


Montero Arguedas Jorge Mario wrote:
> I ve tried convincing our municipal plant engineers of this.  What could
> be better than taking care of having the plants electricity bill taken
> care of by the plant itself.
> 
> They say it impossible.  That the only viable feasible biogas production
> way would be a UASB (or similar) to digest the sludge from the aerobic
> treatment tanks.
> 
> Any comments,  further ideas on this ?
> 
    Yes, they are idiots, just like the ones at our local sewage plant.
If they have gas they are flaring off, it obviously can be utilized. You
can try to educate them, perhaps, or just wait a few years until oil
prices are so high they are desperate. 8-)

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Harmon Seaver



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