University student develops project capable of turning sludge into cooking gas

University student invests in mechanism capable of transforming sludge into cooking gas. Its project aims at reusing the water used at home, both for watering plants and turning it into gas.

Cape Verdean university student Patrick Gomes, who is in the 4th year of the Architecture course at the Jean Piaget University in Cape Verde, has developed an incredible project aimed at transforming sludge into cooking gas and liquid for watering plants. The idea is to reuse as much water as possible in a sustainable way. Gomes explains that his project was born along with the need for rural life in Cape Verde, which at the time was facing a terrible drought. Understanding that rationing and reuse of water was more than necessary gave rise to the idea for this project.

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Project that turns sludge into cooking gas could revolutionize the gas market

When the university student began to realize that people complained about the lack of water, but that they didn't know how to use what little they had with conscience, he decided that he had to help people with this problem.

Thus, Recycle Be was born, a mechanism capable of filtering water and redirecting it directly to irrigation. The university student reported that all newly used water goes to the Recycle Be tank, in its deposit, and then undergoes a filtering and waste separation process.

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The water flows from there to water the plants and the waste, most often sludge, has been processed to become cooking gas. According to Gomes, this project is 80% completed.

Official implementation of the project

As soon as the project is finally concluded, the forecast is that the mechanism will come into action between the end of August and the beginning of September, in the region of Ribeira da Cidadela, where the university student will choose a family that will help during the course of the studies, carrying out observations that can collaborate with improvements and readjustments of the project.

This will be necessary mainly to assess how much cooking gas is produced from sludge, since the exact amount of cooking gas has not yet been defined. The university student believes that the amount of gas produced will depend on the amount of sludge obtained in the process of separating water from waste in the sewage tank.

It is clear that, for the university student, it is very important to make this project work, not only to contribute to the recovery of the environment, but also as a way to help his people with the problems of water scarcity, in addition to a bonus, which is to have sustainable cooking gas and practically for free.

The importance of this project to the Cape Verdean community

A project as innovative as this one is undoubtedly essential for the regeneration of the environment, especially when we take into account the daily difficulties that have been extremely aggravated by the global pandemic we are facing.

It is remarkable the commitment that the university student Patrick has been in favor of a nation that suffers from drought and, most of the time, also from a lack of resources. When carrying out his studies, the university understands that it is still too early to say whether his project will serve a large part of the population that needs this economy, not only water, but also cooking gas.