Grease Is the Word

The Gresham treatment plant collects FOG from haulers and converts it to biogas that helps move the facility toward energy self-sufficiency.
Grease Is the Word
Two APG-Neuros turbo blowers (background) replaced two old centrifugal blowers to help cut energy consumption.

Sometime this year, officials in Gresham, Ore. hope to be generating all of the 15,000 kWh needed to run the city’s wastewater treatment plant every day. An expanded fats, oils and grease (FOG) program and a solar photovoltaic array are expected to save the plant about $570,000 a...

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