Bremer, Walter

Green, Bailey

Hammer, Henry

Karner, Gary

Mallareddy, Harap

McDonald, Margot

Oswald, William J.

Panetta, Daniel

Roley, Jr., William

Vigil, Samuel A.

Williams, Douglas

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Energy Efficient Resource Recovery Project The Renewable Energy Institute at California Polytechnic State University addressed the need for more economical and environmentally sound waste-management facilities by proposing a prototype biological waste-processing faci lity for the university's San Luis Obispo cam pus. The planned Energy Efficient Resource Recovery Facility is intended to demonstrate cost-effective and environmentally sound wastewater and sol id-waste treatment using proven tech-nologies, with an emphasis on resource recovery and energy-efficiency. With a three-year, $342,000 budget, researchers analyzed available technology, including systems for disinfection, irrigation storage, compost curing, methane storage, and liquids treatment and recovery. They also conducted site-selection surveys on the MAXMAN: I commend the effort. They're really lOOKing at the problem holistically and have made aproduct of their research. BECKLEY: This has taKen some of the theoretical research that has been around for a while and applied it to a particular situation in a very admirable way. I was also impressed by the collection ofsponsors. PLATTUS: I thinK the collection of sponsors is indicative of the politi-cal dimension of this particular pro-ject. The problem of waste management is one of the things that could create incentives for regional cooperation among a large group ofconstituencies. campus and addressed the economics of the project. Proposed technologies for the facility include straw-bale construction, roof ponds for passive solar heating and cooling, integrated photovoltaics for elec-trical generation, and gray-water plumbing systems that recycle sewage water for non-potable reuse. Researchers claim the facility is designed to recover energy, water, and valuable nutrients and mitigate the odors typically associated with waste processing. An external economic audit and techno-logical review of the project was conducted to determine its feasibility. Though the economic review is not complete, the tech-nological review indicated that the project would, in fact, work. Education center PRINCIPAL RESEARCHERS/AUTHORS: California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, California-Daniel Panetta (principal investigator), Douglas Williams (assistant investigator), Walter Bremer, Gary Karner, Harap Mallareddy, Margot McDonald, Samuel Vigil (faculty); University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, California-Bailey Green, Henry Hammer, William J. Oswald (faculty);Wiliiam Roley, Jr., Applied Ecologi-cal Systems (ecological consultant) CLIENT: California Polytechnic State University FUNDING: California Institute for Energy Efficiency; California Polytechnic State University; Pacific Gas and Electric; San Luis Obispo County Integrated Waste Manage-ment Authority o demonstration gardens o solar atrium o wastewater pond system o constructed wetlands e disinfection facility o wildlife habitat G treatment buildings Resource recovery facility 100 I architecture: april 1998 

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