Durban project aims at fuel from sewage.(News)

From: The Mercury (South Africa) | Date: April 17, 2008 | Copyright information

BYLINE: TONY CARNIE

DURBAN is helping to develop a new liquid fuel technology which involves harvesting tiny plants and nutrients from local sewage works.

Unlike other plant-based biofuels which require vast tracts of fertile farmland or the diversion of food crops into fuel tanks, the Durban experiment involves growing algae in semi-purified sewage water and then converting these microscopic plant organisms into a liquid fuel that can power diesel cars and trucks.

Engineers are about to start converting part of the Kingsburgh sewage treatment works into a biodiesel ...

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