Capstone project seeks to make lasting impact in Barbados and around the world
Fourth-year students implement a wastewater treatment and biogas system for a dairy farm in Barbados.
Turning waste into fuel
Third-year Mechanical Engineering student Abigail Stokes never thought she’d find herself working with waste treatment sludge as she had aspired to work in the automotive or biomedical industry. Instead, as she starts her second-semester of third year, Stokes is well-ensconced in waste treatment sludge as an undergraduate researcher at UBC Okanagan’s Bioreactor Technology Group (BTG).
Are kidney stones the key to cleaning up wastewater?
Researchers at the Okanagan Campus of the University of British Columbia are enhancing the effectiveness of a wastewater treatment process known as “struvite precipitation”.