Solar assisted sludge and energy recycling disposal system utilizing the old Princeton sewage treatment and solid waste incineration facilities

Conference · Mon Dec 01 04:00:00 EST 1980 · Alternative Energy Sources; (United States)

OSTI ID:6829574

Slaby, S M

Princeton, New Jersey, a town of 30,000 people is in a unique position to utilize solid waste and sewage sludge as supplementary energy sources. The Stony Brook Sewage Authority recently constructed a new twenty million dollar sewage treatment plant next to the old sewage treatment plant which served the community of Princeton for forty years. On the site of the old plant is an abandoned incinerator plant which presently is being used as a transfer station. The new sewage treatment plant is disposing of its sludge by burning it in multiple hearth furnaces using sixty gallons of precious oil to do this. The proposed Princeton Energy Recycling Center is designed to be retrofitted with solar sludge dryers to dry the sewage sludge which would be transported by conveyer to the old incinerator plant where it would be mixed with garbage and be burned in rehabilitated furnaces which would be retrofitted for steam generators, a steam engine driven electric generator and air pollution control equipment. It is estimated that the proposed energy recycling center would fulfill all electrical needs of the new sewage treatment plant in addition to solving the solid waste and sludge disposal problems of the Princeton community. The paper presents a detailed discussion on the proposed Princeton Energy Recycling Center.

• Research Organization: Technology and Society Seminars School of Engineering and Applied Science Princeton University Princeton, New Jersey
• OSTI ID: 6829574
• Report Number(s): CONF-801210-
• Conference Information: Journal Name: Alternative Energy Sources; (United States) Journal Volume: 7
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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14 SOLAR ENERGY
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42 ENGINEERING
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CHEMICAL REACTIONS
COMBUSTION
DESIGN
DRYERS
DRYING
ENERGY RECOVERY
EQUIPMENT
FEDERAL REGION II
FURNACES
INCINERATORS
INDUSTRIAL PLANTS
MANAGEMENT
MUNICIPAL WASTES
NEW JERSEY
NORTH AMERICA
OXIDATION
RECOVERY
RETROFITTING
SEWAGE
SEWAGE SLUDGE
SLUDGES
SOLAR DRYERS
SOLAR DRYING
SOLAR EQUIPMENT
THERMOCHEMICAL PROCESSES
USA
WASTE DISPOSAL
WASTE MANAGEMENT
WASTE PROCESSING PLANTS
WASTES