Water and Energy Abstracts

  • Year: 2007
  • Volume: 16
  • Issue: 3

Turning trash into cash – using wastes and by-products to generate clean, On-site energy

  • Author:
  • Charles Curtis
  • Total Page Count: 1
  • Page Number: 41 to 41

(Cogeneration and On-Site Power Production, March-April 2006, pp. 7379).

Abstract

Methane from landfill sites, waste oils from food processing operations, and manure from dairy cows and chickens can all be used to provide clean, renewable fuels for on-site electricity and CHP systems, as three US installations illustrate. Author reports.

Keywords

Alternative energy, Renewable energy, Distillate as fuel, Microturbine