anaerobic digesters, methane, natural gas, new tech, sewage, study

Turning (More) Fat and Sewage Into Methane

North Carolina State University researchers have developed what is, to date, the most efficient means of converting sewage sludge and restaurant grease into methane. After treating sewage, wastewater treatment plants are left with solid sludge, called biosolids. For years, utilities have treated biosolids with microbes that produce methane. In recent years, utilities have been adding ...

Troy Oakes

Anaerobic digesters.

Scientists Reveal What the Monstrous Devon Fatberg Contained

A fatberg refers to a semi-solid mass of sewer waste that is usually a combination of grease and non-biodegradable matter. Just before Christmas last year, a 64-meter-long monstrous fatberg was discovered under The Esplanade in Sidmouth, Devon, the UK. Bigger than even the Leaning Tower of Pisa, the Devon fatberg was handed over to a ...

Armin Auctor

Part of the Devon fatberg.