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UBC Okanagan Researcher Aims To Turn Waste To Energy
By GreenCompany | March 4, 2010
Cigdem Eskicioglu who is a professor of engineering at UBC Okanagan is aiming to turn various sources of organic waste into methane for renewable energy and as a highly usable organic fertilizer. With so many possible places to glean waste organic matter and to keep it from ending up unused and in local landfills, this research has much upside.
Professor Eskicioglu is researching ways reduce greenhouse gases, possible deadly pathogens and to lesson the impact on our already stressed landfills by working closer with the originating sources of organic waste.
Green Company Canada in the past has highlighted companies taking advantage of anaerobic digestion to breakdown organic waste into a biogas which is comprised mainly of methane and carbon dioxide. This anaerobic digestion also produces nutrient-rich fertilizer.
The Natural Science and Engineering Research Council of Canada is helping to support Eskicioglu’s research.
Category: Green Living, Green News
Tags: anaerobic digestion, biogas, Canada, greenhouse gas, landfill, methane, organic fertilizer, renewable energy, ubc 2 Comments »
March 31st, 2010 at 12:04 pm
I will like to know more about this project, the investment prospects and future goals on the project
March 31st, 2010 at 12:38 pm
Hi Michael
As we receive any further information on this subject we will be sure to post it right away.