Researchers Working to Turn Sludge Into Renewable Energy

Research receives $2 million from DOE to make wastewater treatment energy neutral and keep billions of pounds of sludge out of landfills

Researchers Working to Turn Sludge Into Renewable Energy

WPI Ph.D. candidate Heather LeClerc (foreground) and WPI Ph.D. student David Kenney work together to seal and prepare the reactor used to produce bio-oil from sludge. (Photos by Matt Burgos)

A team of researchers at Worcester Polytechnic Institute received a nearly $2 million grant from the U.S. Department of Energy to create renewable fuel from sewage sludge, a byproduct of wastewater treatment that creates greenhouse gases and water pollution when dumped into...

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