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Integrated power plant, sewage treatment, and aquatic biomass fuel production system

  • US 20100003741A1
  • Filed: 07/01/2008
  • Published: 01/07/2010
  • Est. Priority Date: 07/01/2008
  • Status: Abandoned Application
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1. A method for growing biomass while simultaneously reducing the quantity of nitrates and carbon dioxide that would otherwise be available for discharge into the environment, comprising:

  • a) delivering wastewater containing elevated levels of nitrates, from a sewage treatment facility to an entry location of a biomass growth unit;

    b) delivering carbon dioxide derived from exhaust gas of a power generation plant to said biomass growth unit;

    c) providing a feed stock of biomass to the wastewater at the entry location of said biomass growth unit;

    d) in the wastewater delivered to the biomass growth unit, photosynthetically growing a biomass from said nitrates and said carbon dioxide as said delivered nitrates and carbon dioxide are consumed and thereby converted into other compounds; and

    e) harvesting the grown biomass.

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