Archive for October, 2011

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Power from wastewater treatment plants: the technology

This is continuation of this topic posted on June 2010. 

Wastewater treatment plants are an important component of urban cities. With exponential industrial and population growth, the volume of material these plants have to accommodate in future will grow by several orders of magnitude. This amounts to consumption of large amount of fossil fuels based power. Escalation of fossil fuel cost is a deterrent to many wastewater treatment plants. Heat pump and heat exchanger technologies  that is commonly adopted in geothermal industry can be integrated with wastewater treatment plants to  implement CDM in several urban cities and make cities green for the future generation.

 How is this possible…….Read “ 

Green Power Technology to Clean theHussainSagarLakeand support its neighborhood energy utility” in  “Technology Update” Environmental Pollution Jour., July-Aug 2008 

This paper describes methods to clean the Hussain Sagar lake and generate electric power from the waste using heat exchanger technology. In fact any waste, soild and or liquid,  can be utilized to generate power using this technology. Basically this process is known as “waste to energy”. World over this technologyis  being implemented, as documented in the above paper. Care should be taken to avoid plastic during incineration process.

33 2008 hUSSAIN SAGAR ENVIRON POLL CONTROL J V11 P 14 TO 19