Municipal wastewater electrical power generation assembly and a method for generating electrical power

Abstract

An electrical generating assembly 10 which may be selectively used in combination with and/or as part of a municipal wastewater treatment facility 12 and which allows the wastewater treatment facility 12 to generate electrical energy 48,62, 13 as received wastewater 14 is cleaned.

1 . An improved wastewater treatment plant for the treatment of wastewater which comprises a combination of water and waste and having a wastewater treatment assembly which separates the water from the waste and a holding tank which receives the separated water, wherein the improved comprising a device which receives the separated water from the wastewater treatment assembly and which utilizes only said received separated water to produce electricity. 
     
     
         2 . An improved wastewater treatment plant for the treatment of wastewater which comprises a combination of water and waste and having a wastewater treatment assembly which separates the water from the waste and a holding tank which receives the separated water, wherein the improved comprising a device which receives the separated water from the wastewater treatment assembly and which utilizes said received separated water to produce electricity. 
     
     
         3 . An energy generation assembly comprising a furnace which receives waste material, which burns waste material, and which generates gas from said burning of said waste material; and a turbine assembly which receives said gas and which uses to produce electricity.