Researchers In São Paulo Make Unprecedented Discovery That Allows Energy Generation Using Sewage Water

Written by Valdemar Medeiros

Published on 03/10/2022 at 12:13

Updated on 03/10/2022 at 14:42

A Estação de Tratatamento de Esgoto (ETE) Alegria, que lidera um programa para transformar o esgoto urbano em energia. Foto: Marcio Schittini.

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Researchers in São Paulo Are Developing a Project Capable of Generating Clean Energy from Sewage Water. The Initiative Could Contribute to the Ethanol Industry.

A clean energy generation has been gaining various new methods to ensure more efficient sustainability worldwide. Additionally, these services enable a better quality of life through the plans that science creates. Thus, researchers in São Paulo have found a new way to generate energy from sewage water.

Project Developed by Researchers from the Laboratory of Sanitation and Environmental Technologies (LabSan Tec)

This process will allow for the separation of waste to generate energy from sewage water. The clean energy project was developed by researchers from the Laboratory of Sanitation and Environmental Technologies (LabSan Tec) at the University of São Paulo (USP), and to achieve this, the team developed a cell that generates energy from sewage water.

In this way, the group of researchers focuses on six units of the laboratory, which present a power of 48W per cubic meter of system volume. Thus, the researchers plan to enhance the performance of the new method.

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For the new energy project from sewage water by scientists in São Paulo, a patent has already been requested. The process is quite similar to the vinasse system for ethanol production.

However, researchers isolated synthetic materials and electrogenic bacteria. In addition, the project could also bring benefits to the ethanol production industries and will help balance waste mitigation in the environment.

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Researchers In São Paulo Make Unprecedented Discovery That Allows Energy Generation Using Sewage Water

Researchers in São Paulo Are Developing a Project Capable of Generating Clean Energy from Sewage Water. The Initiative Could Contribute to the Ethanol Industry.

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