1. From Waste to Water
Weekly Thermo Teaser

2. Motivation
Water
 Today approximately 783 million people in the world living
without access to clean drinking water1
 The U.N. predicts that by 2030, almost half the world 's
population will face water scarcity.1
Sanitation
 2.5 billion people have inadequate sanitation1
 Diseases caused by poor sanitation kill some 700,000 children
every year2

3. Waste to Water
Photo Credit: www. janickibioenergy.com/s100.html
Janicki Omniprocessor
 Converts solid waste into clean drinking water and electricity
 22,700 gallons/day3
 300 kW net electricity2
 16 US households

4. How it Works
 Heat solid waste in furnace and separate boiling
water
 Burn dried solid waste to power “steam cycle”
 Steam cycle produces electricity to power water
purification process
 Excess electricity output to grid

5. Various forms of Energy
Furnace
ProcessingSteam Engine
Biomass (wet)
Water VaporBiomass (dry)
Clean WaterExhaust
Air
Heat
Elec. Excess
Elec.

6. Steam Engine
Boiler
Condenser
Turbine
Solid Biomass
+ Air
ExhaustCOMBUSTION

7. References
 1.
http://www.npr.org/blogs/goatsandsoda/2015/0
1/10/376182321/bill-gates-raises-a-glass-to-and-of-
water-made-from-poop
 2.
http://www.gatesnotes.com/Development/Omnip
rocessor-From-Poop-to-Potable
 3. http://janickibioenergy.com/s200.html