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General => Chatter => Topic started by: Tony on August 31, 2012, 11:44:18 AM

Title: Biodiesel from sewage?
Post by: Tony on August 31, 2012, 11:44:18 AM

http://cen.acs.org/articles/90/web/2012/08/Biodiesel-Sewage-Sludge.html

Looks like they use a non-catalytic process

http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/es3019435

Title: Re: Biodiesel from sewage?
Post by: Julian on August 31, 2012, 12:35:51 PM

Reacting at 380°C ... they must surely be using extremely high pressures or reacting with vaporised Methanol.

Title: Re: Biodiesel from sewage?
Post by: Tony on August 31, 2012, 12:45:45 PM

Either way, given how aromatics make it unscathed through the process - it wouldn't be a pleasant prospect for those behind your tailpipe would it?