{"id":77324,"date":"2018-04-02T09:42:48","date_gmt":"2018-04-02T16:42:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/04\/scientists-invent-cheaper-and-greener-wastewater-treatment"},"modified":"2018-04-04T09:10:20","modified_gmt":"2018-04-04T16:10:20","slug":"scientists-invent-cheaper-and-greener-wastewater-treatment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/04\/scientists-invent-cheaper-and-greener-wastewater-treatment","title":{"rendered":"Scientists invent cheaper and greener wastewater treatment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-invent-cheaper-and-greener-wastewater-treatment.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A new energy-efficient process developed at Murdoch University is set to revolutionise wastewater treatment by significantly reducing the industry\u2019s electricity consumption.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Ralf Cord-Ruwisch and Dr. Wipa Charles, along with two Phd students have collaborated with engineers Professor Liang Cheng and Dr. Lee Walker to form BioFilmTec Pty. Ltd \u2013 a research team designing and developing a new <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/wastewater+treatment\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">wastewater treatment<\/a> system that requires less than half the electricity to operate.<\/p>\n<p>With current wastewater <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/treatment\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">treatment<\/a> technology in Australia more than 100 years old, Dr. Cord-Ruwisch believes the time is right for a more energy-efficient approach.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2018-04-scientists-cheaper-greener-wastewater-treatment.html\">https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2018&#45;04-scientists-cheaper-greener...tment.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new energy-efficient process developed at Murdoch University is set to revolutionise wastewater treatment by significantly reducing the industry\u2019s electricity consumption. Dr. Ralf Cord-Ruwisch and Dr. Wipa Charles, along with two Phd students have collaborated with engineers Professor Liang Cheng and Dr. Lee Walker to form BioFilmTec Pty. Ltd \u2013 a research team designing and [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":467,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1497],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77324","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\/467"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77324"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77324\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77419,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77324\/revisions\/77419"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}