Use of Algae to Produce Energy Through Wastewater

There have been more recycling programs nowadays as compared to decade before and large amount of wastewater produced is also recycled for reuse in urban areas. Although not all the used water is recycled and it make take time to cover the great gap, the world largest bodies are struggling to recover the offshore water and make purposeful use of used water. You may be thinking till this discussion that we don’t have any other option of dealing with wastewater?

This would be definitely easy to transfer the wastewater to some safe place and recycle through advanced technological methods available and save the cost and environment. There are many ideas from the people and researching bodies to make effective use of waste water to make it more productive for the environment and our economy. One of these ideas led to development of energy production project through wastewater.

Different research studies agreed to one point that microalgae would be one of the most beneficial bio fuels for renewable energy production. There are easier to be grown as compared to our conventional crops which have low production yield. Microalgae can transfer to several magnitudes if we analyze its effectiveness with other productive resources. In order to grow and thrive, biofuel microalgae would work on and digest, a creature which will be there where wastewater comes from and that is biological by its origin.

In NASA nanotechnology, a research Jonathan Trent is busy in his research with OMEGA System about offshore membrane of this productive biofuel Algae. We can find the description of its working through its acronym that it utilizes the big enclosed plastic membranes to cultivate and grow the biological microalgae. The urban waste water produce need living environment for microalgae while other living environment required provided is offered by sun and coral plants.  The OMEGA project offshore nature has also found that in production of biofuel microalgae, this should not consume the land available for production of food.

OMEGA system is enclosed as whole and with use of different elements, it cycle itself and purposeful as energy source. This system has been designed in such a way that it will gather the entire city’s waste water and would be definitely a large sustained place for microalgae growth. Making this project according to its promising plans, OMEGA will deal with all the economic hurdles which may suffer this project, but we may think that a large amount of wastewater of this world would be saved from offshore and OMEGA energy process will continue it to produce the renewable energy, the predictions are still high.

Funding is yet to be elevated for this great system to work properly and smoothly complete its initial working. This project has also planned to introduce the aqua culture beneath the membrane like oysters and mussels for improvement of this system production. Would this not be a purposeful idea to invest in such energy source which may pay back more than our investment and also fulfill current energy demands? Stay for More updates this week!!