Worcester Polytechnic Institute Researchers Working to Turn Toxic Sewage Sludge into Renewable Energy
Worcester Polytechnic Institute Researchers Working to Turn Toxic Sewage Sludge into Renewable Energy Share Article Research Receives $2M from DOE to Make Wastewater Treatment Energy Neutral and Keep Billions of Pounds of Sludge Out of Landfills Worcester Polytechnic Institute PhD candidate Heather LeClerc (foreground) and WPI PhD student David Kenney work together to seal and prepare the reactor used to produce bio-oil from toxic sludge. “We’re taking something that is a huge energy consumer and turning it into an energy producer."-Michael TimkoAssociate professor of chemical engineering...