Small-Town Phoenixville Launches a Big Innovation in Beneficial Use of Biosolids

A Pennsylvania community tests a new hydrothermal carbonization conversion technology to bypass digestion and turn biosolids into an energy-dense hydrochar fuel.

Small-Town Phoenixville Launches a Big Innovation in Beneficial Use of Biosolids

The Bucher filter press, shown being moved into the wastewater treatment plant, will dry biosolids processed by hydrothermal carbonization to 50-60% solids.

The Borough of Phoenixville is a small municipality in southeastern Pennsylvania that rises to the challenges of being first.

It was first in the state to pledge a transition to 100% renewable energy for electricity by 2035 for all municipal operations. Now it is first to install...

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