In the future, wastewater treatment plants can have a broader function by being converted into biorefineries.
All of the world's wastewater treatment plants treat large amounts of sewage, 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, according to new research out of the University of Borås, Sweden.
Scientists in Resource Recovery at the university plan to validate a new concept in which they produce and extract fatty acids using membrane bioreactors, which in turn are used to produce the substances acetic acid and hydrogen.Today, food waste and sludge from
