Crude oil of the future is made from "human feces"

Four girls students developed a generator powered by urineOr,Technology to transform sugar into jet fuel using metal and bacteriaHave been developed, and various alternative energy is being sought. Meanwhile, the newly announced technology is the technology to produce crude oil from sewage sludge, human feces.

PNNL: News - Fuel from sewage is the future - and it's closer than you think
http://www.pnnl.gov/news/release.aspx?id=4317

You can check how to convert sewage sludge into bio crude from the following movie.

From the Toilet to the Tank - Biofuels from Sewage - YouTube


Every day we produce 34 billion gallons (129 billion liters) of sewage sewage. Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) announced that technology was developed to produce crude oil called Biocrude (bio crude) using this sewage sewage necessarily created in nature.


Bio crude oil is made by squeezing sewage sludge warmed to 343 degrees at 3000 pounds per square inch. Stir wastewater ... ...


Squeezing. This method is called "hydrothermal liquefaction treatment".



When squeezing, bio crude oil is completed. It is possible to purify this in the same way as making oil.


The technology patented by a company named Genifuel Corporation is still undergoing experiments only on a small scale and is now seeking ways to speed up processing. However, in 2018, test runs are scheduled to be actually carried out at facilities in Vancouver, Canada.


Regarding bioenergy, in 2013, a house that produces renewable energy called biomass energy (microalga fuel) from algae was announced ... ...

A house that generates self-generated recyclable resources such as heat and biomass energy from algae - GIGAZINE


Global Algae InnovationsProject was to convert algae to alternative gasoline and protein sources, trying to solve energy problems at once.

What is "Algae" that replaces algae growing easily with carbon dioxide, sunlight, and water by substitute gasoline and nutrients to solve global warming problems at once? - GIGAZINE


However, researchers at PNNL believe that there is great promise for the technology of converting sewage sludge into energy, because the conversion efficiency from carbon contained in feces to Pio oil is 60%.

Of course, this crude oil has the same properties as fossil fuels, so we can not solve the problem of carbon dioxide emissions. However, it is possible to reduce reliance on customs of oil field mining that destroys the environment.


Demand for petroleum products tends to shrink and demand for gasoline is expected to fall 2.5% on average over the next five years. In addition, the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry has announced the forecast that the demand for petroleum products in FY2020 will be 8.5% lower than the expected result in FY 2003, reaching 157.76 million kiloliters.

Energy Giant Shell Says Oil Demand Could Peak in Just Five Years - Bloomberg
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-11-02/europe-s-biggest-oil-company-thinks-demand-may-peak-in-5-years

Demand for petroleum products will decline by 1.7% on average over the next 5 years, worsening from the previous year's forecast - Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry - Bloomberg
https://www.bloomberg.co.jp/news/articles/2016-04-01/O4Y1F06JTSEA01