California Energy Commission awards $1 million for wastewater biofuels demonstration

In California, the California Energy Commission awarded $1 million to UC-Riverside’s Center for Environmental Research and Technology to build a process demonstration unit for conversion of wastewater comingled with green waste to synthetic diesel fuel. The unit will use a steam hydrogasification process.

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