Durban is helping to develop a new liquid fuel technology which involves harvesting tiny plants and nutrients from local sewage works.
Unlike other plant-based biofuels which require vast tracts of fertile farmland or the diversion of food crops into fuel tanks, the Durban experiment involves growing algae in semi-purified sewage water and then converting these microscopic plant organisms into a liquid fuel that can power diesel cars and trucks.
Engineers are about to start converting part of the Kingsburgh sewage treatment works into a biodiesel farming experiment as part of a two-year scientific pilot project run by the Durban University of Technology's school of water and wastewater technology.
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ReplyDeleteI am Haresh Dembla from Pune India. I want some information about oil from algae, like how many times a year it grows and how old algae we can use for oil? please write me at demblah2002@yahoo.com . thank you very much. Hary.