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
  • DOI:
  • Page Number: 41 to 41

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