Name

Hydrogen recovery from scaled-up Microbial Electrolysis for domestic wastewaters

Speakers

Dr Daniel Indiana Carlotta-Jones

Authors

Daniel Indiana Carlotta-Jones, Wastewater Fuels Ltd, UK

Description

Wastewater treatment makes up to 2-3% of the UKs energy budget. Lowering this with the incumbent technology is difficult and there is a failure to recover additional potential value from wastewaters. This can be delivered by the Wastewater Fuels Microbial Electrolysis Cell (MEC), a technology that has low operational costs and recovers hydrogen very efficiently, using microorganisms and recycled materials.

The MEC we have developed is able to directly recover enough energy from wastewater to be net energy positive. We have deployed two TRL 7 trials at the Severn Trent Spernal Sewage treatment works, treating crude sewage and sludge liquors, along with pre and post treatment assets to demonstrate how the MEC can operate as part of a full treatment process. 

As part of our talk, we will discuss the challenges we are solving, the background of our company, our technological journey of development, the results from our trial at Spernal and the next steps to deployment across the water sector. We will also share the potential environmental and economic impacts that our low cost and hydrogen producing solution can have. We hope to demonstrate the potential of how our solution can deliver on the circular economy.

Time

9:50 AM - 10:15 AM

Location Name

Room 3

Track

09:00 - 10:40 Circular Economy