Vancouver to discuss option of using sewage to heat buildings

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Vancouver to discuss option of using sewage to heat buildings
Jane Deacon, QMI Agency
First posted: Tuesday, September 09, 2014 07:07 PM EDT | Updated: Tuesday, September 09, 2014 07:26 PM EDT
VANCOUVER -- A proposal to use the region's sewage as a heat source will come before Metro Vancouver for approval later this week.
Review of the region's sewage system has determined there is enough recoverable energy to heat an estimated 700 buildings, providing Metro Vancouver with an opportunity to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions. The Utilities Committee approved an interim strategy earlier this year and will vote on a final draft Thursday.
Initial contracts will provide free sewage for 15 to 20 years, said Jeff Carmichael of Metro Vancouver's Liquid Waste Services, but the policy leaves the door open in case the value of sewage skyrockets.
"We wouldn't want to get into a situation where we were giving something away for free that was tremendously valuable and we'd be criticized for not having managed that valuable resource in a fair manner," he said.
Carmichael said that if the policy is approved, infrastructure for the first projects will likely be in place within a few years.
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Interesting idea but is it financially viable without taxpayer money? Perhaps a better idea would be to test in an industrial park or two.
 
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Vancouver looking at using treated sewage to heat buildings
Jane Deacon, QMI Agency
First posted: Tuesday, October 21, 2014 09:01 PM EDT | Updated: Tuesday, October 21, 2014 09:18 PM EDT
VANCOUVER -- Metro Vancouver is investigating how to extract heat from treated sewage at a new wastewater plant.
A "close cousin" to sewage heat recovery, the project would be a B.C. first, says Jeff Carmichael of Metro Vancouver's liquid waste services.
The concept involves extracting heat from clean, treated wastewater being pumped back into the river system. It's a green energy source that comes with the added environmental benefit of cooling warm water before it enters the ecosystem -- something that can affect fish habitats, said Carmichael.
"We've never really thought of our wastewater as anything more than the stuff we want to throw away," he said. "Now we're taking a new look at things and saying, 'Maybe it's a resource we can take advantage of.'"
There is potential to heat 3,000 households -- serving 7,500 people -- from effluent at the new Lions Gate Wastewater Treatment Plant, said Carmichael.
Earlier this fall, Metro Vancouver approved policy that guides the use of sewage heat as an energy source, providing the region with an opportunity to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions.
Sewage treatment facility along the North Shore between the Lions Gate Bridge and the Capilano River in Vancouver taken August 29, 2006. (ROB KRUYT QMI AGENCY)

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Good idea.

Sure would beat dumping it in a river............if folks still do that.........someone's downstream from someone. Kinda makes ya wanna puke, eh.8O

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Nuggler said:
Good idea.

Sure would beat dumping it in a river............if folks still do that.........someone's downstream from someone. Kinda makes ya wanna puke, eh.8O

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The sewage isn't going somewhere else.

How is sewage a heat source?
 
petros

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Nuggler said:
Fukk, I dunno. Why ask me ? Maybe they use a heat source to burn it. = a heat source.

Go figure.
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I goes into a river.

They'd be better off collecting heat from all the traffic that doesn't move on piss poor infrastructure that was inadequate when designed in 1967. If they want to be green, do something about the rolling parking lots that isn't on the Fed dollar.
 
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