The Digest’s 2024 Multi-Slide Guide to Maximizing Bio-Renewable Energy from Wet Wastes

Most current wastewater plants recover <33% of incoming energy & have a negative energy balance. So, there’s an opportunity to increase net energy yield from municipal wastewater treatment. Yet, Anaerobic membrane bioreactors (AnMBRs) facilitate mainstream anaerobic digestion but previous AnMBRs suffer from high costs and energy inputs.  A research team proposed a project to resolve key limitations of AnMBRs and adds conversion of ammonia to hydrogen gas by electrolysis. Lance Schideman of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign gave this presentation on the project at DOE Project Peer Review.