The economics of waste water--aquaculture systems

Technical Report · Sat Nov 01 04:00:00 EST 1975

OSTI ID:7251422

Smith, L J; Huguenin, J E

Due to recent environmental legislation and growing scarcities of popular seafoods, there is considerable interest in innovative systems that can strip nutrients biologically from waste water and produce potentially useful materials. While many variations of such systems exist, the systems described are based on the secondary sewage-marine aquaculture system developed at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution with an option of using thermal effluent as a heat source. The design, performance and resulting costs of operational systems for commercial production scaled up by factors of 10, 100 and 1,000 are projected and compared. The largest of these systems would be able to handle the waste water from a city of 100,000 people. Despite uncertainties in the systems, the analysis shows that large-scale systems using sewage as a nutrient source and free heat from power plant effluents (or located in a warm climate) could be profitable.

• Research Organization: Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Mass. (USA)
• OSTI ID: 7251422
• Report Number(s): PB-249547
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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