Enabling the Total Resource Utilization (TRU) Habitat

Paper ID: 
cest2019_00854
Topic: 
Water, energy and/or food nexus
Published under CEST2019
Proceedings ISBN: 978-618-86292-0-2
Proceedings ISSN: 2944-9820
Authors: 
Tsantrizos P., (Corresponding) Curry N.
Abstract: 
Terragon Environmental Technologies Inc. has developed a suite of user-friendly technologies to treat solid and liquid byproducts of human consumption now considered “waste” and convert them into “resources” that can be re-used in the same place in which they are generated (in situ). These technologies, namely MAGSTM (combustible-waste-to-thermal-energy) and WETTTM (wastewater treatment and re-use), when integrated together in the same location, can enable a “Total Resource Utilization (TRU) Habitat”. A technological overview of MAGS and WETT are presented in this paper as well as Terragon’s vision of the TRU Habitat.
Keywords: 
resource recovery, waste-to-energy, grey water, black water, on-site waste management