Sunflower Power

Raleigh looks at using crops grown on treatment plant property to produce biodiesel as fuel for on-site power generators.
Sunflower Power
The Neuse River Wastewater Treatment Plant plans to add equipment to make biodiesel from crops grown on the 1,000-acre site.

It is the picture of a sustainable system: nourishing crops with biosolids, converting crops into biodiesel, fueling engines to power a wastewater treatment plant, creating more biosolids. Such a closed system is being used at the Neuse River Wastewater Treatment Plant in...

Please login or register to view TPO articles. It's free, fast and easy!


Discussion

Comments on this site are submitted by users and are not endorsed by nor do they reflect the views or opinions of COLE Publishing, Inc. Comments are moderated before being posted.