Energy & resource positive water technologies
Published on by Kartik Chandran, Columbia University - Associate Professor in Technology
Kartik Chandran,Associate Professor fromColumbia University talks about his research in Biofuels and other energy & resource positive water technologies.
I develop technologies oriented toward providing water and sanitation in an energy neutral at worst case, and energy positive in the best case.
One example is our project that converts faecal sludge into biodiesel which is a fuel that can used anywhere, also methane that can be used as such,or converted to methanol that can used for biodiesel production.
We are interested in technology and investment partners so that we can provide sanitation to more people in an affordable way.
For the bio diesel market, most technologies are oriented around using Algae as catalysts. We move away from the algae model, we combine a biological process using faecal sludge and produce precursors to biodiesel and then we use a chemical process to convert these to produce biodiesel. View the full presentation of Kartik's work in the following TED video link