MSU Experiment Focuses on Bio-Solid Waste

The T.B. Simon Power Plant at Michigan State University has conducted an experiment using bio-solid waste as an alternative to burning coal. The experiment, conducted with N-Viro International Corp., a company that works with recycling and alternative fuels, burned a mixture of biomass and coal in a standard boiler using bio-solids from the East Lansing Wastewater Treatment Plant and animal manure supplied by MSU. The experiment was so successful that the plant's Director, Robert Ellerhorst, said he hopes the university will be able to permanently use the alternative fuel to power its 5,200-acre campus. (Source: State News, Apr. 09, '07)

Contact: Robert Ellerhorst, Director Utilities, MSU, telephone: (355) 3314 ext 100, www.msu.edu. N-Viro International, telephone: (419) 535-6374 email: info@nviro.com, www.nviro.com.