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WPI Ph.D. candidate Heather LeClerc (foreground) and WPI Ph.D. student David Kenney work together to seal and prepare the reactor used to produce bio-oil from sludge. (Photos by Matt Burgos)
A team of researchers at Worcester Polytechnic Institute received a nearly $2 million grant from the U.S. Department of Energy to create renewable fuel from sewage sludge, a byproduct of wastewater treatment that creates greenhouse gases and water pollution when dumped into...