Collected fats, oils and grease (FOG) that feeds an anaerobic digester is providing 20 percent of the necessary power at a wastewater treatment plant in West Lafayette, Indiana.
According to a report by WLFI TV in Lafayette, Indiana, the city of West Lafayette, Indiana, has been collecting used grease and cooking oil for recycling since 2010.
West Lafayette Utility Director David Henderson says the collected FOG is fed to anaerobic digestion tanks at West Lafayette’s Water Resource Recovery Facility. Those digesters create methane in what Henderson calls a combined heat-and-power (CHP) process that helps power a generator used to produce electricity at the plant.
The city has FOG collection containers available to accept dropped off oil and grease at any time.
Latest from Waste Today
- Registration Now Open for C&D World 2025
- ASTM releases textile circularity standards report
- Corporate Growth Conference 2024: Growth opportunity abound in industrial and specialty waste sector
- CSA Group publishes standard defining plastics recycling in Canada
- Sennebogen machinery keeps material moving at German recycling plant
- Tenamec adds Virginia dealership
- Kanadevia selected to supply London WTE plant
- Chevron and CalBio complete RNG facility for biomethane fuel project
