{"id":556,"date":"2008-05-05T16:23:00","date_gmt":"2008-05-05T16:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oilgae.com\/blog\/?p=556"},"modified":"2008-05-05T16:23:00","modified_gmt":"2008-05-05T16:23:00","slug":"kingsburgh-sewage-project-in-durban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/2008\/05\/kingsburgh-sewage-project-in-durban.html","title":{"rendered":"Kingsburgh Sewage Project in Durban Aims at Fuel from Algae"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You are at: <b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/\">Oilgae Blog<\/a><\/b>. See the <b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/dir\/dir.html\">complete list of Oilgae Blog articles<\/a><\/b>.<\/p>\n<p>Durban is helping to develop a new liquid fuel technology which involves harvesting tiny plants and nutrients from local sewage works.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>Engineers are about to start converting part of the Kingsburgh sewage treatment works into a biodiesel farming experiment as part of a two-year scientific pilot project run by the Durban University of Technology&#8217;s school of water and wastewater technology.<\/p>\n<p>More from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iol.co.za\/index.php?set_id=1&amp;click_id=105&amp;art_id=vn20080417055727488C575159\">here<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#990000;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/ref\/report\/academic\/academic_report.html\">Oilgae Academic Edition<\/a> lists companies involved in algae energy commercial research, for students and researchers to get in touch with industrial collaborations.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You are at: Oilgae Blog. See the complete list of Oilgae Blog articles. 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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-algae-harvesting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=556"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}