{"id":208501,"date":"2025-03-12T18:04:28","date_gmt":"2025-03-12T23:04:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/solar-powered-method-converts-sewage-sludge-into-green-hydrogen-and-animal-feed"},"modified":"2025-03-12T18:04:28","modified_gmt":"2025-03-12T23:04:28","slug":"solar-powered-method-converts-sewage-sludge-into-green-hydrogen-and-animal-feed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/solar-powered-method-converts-sewage-sludge-into-green-hydrogen-and-animal-feed","title":{"rendered":"Solar-powered method converts sewage sludge into green hydrogen and animal feed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/solar-powered-method-converts-sewage-sludge-into-green-hydrogen-and-animal-feed.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Scientists at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore), have developed an innovative solar-powered method to transform sewage sludge\u2014a by-product of wastewater treatment\u2014into green hydrogen for clean energy and single-cell protein for animal feed.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1038\/s44221-024-00329-z\" target=\"_blank\">Published<\/a> in <i>Nature Water<\/i>, the sludge-to-food-and-fuel method tackles two pressing global challenges: managing waste and generating sustainable resources. This aligns with NTU\u2019s goal of addressing humanity\u2019s greatest challenges, such as climate change and sustainability.<\/p>\n<p>The United Nations estimates that about 2.5 billion more people will be living in cities by 2050. Along with the growth of cities and industries comes an increase in <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/sewage+sludge\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">sewage sludge<\/a>, which is notoriously difficult to process and dispose of due to its complex structure, composition, and contaminants such as <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/heavy+metals\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">heavy metals<\/a> and pathogens.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore), have developed an innovative solar-powered method to transform sewage sludge\u2014a by-product of wastewater treatment\u2014into green hydrogen for clean energy and single-cell protein for animal feed. Published in Nature Water, the sludge-to-food-and-fuel method tackles two pressing global challenges: managing waste and generating sustainable resources. This aligns with NTU\u2019s [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":732,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[493,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-208501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climatology","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208501","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/732"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=208501"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208501\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}