candidate experiments ranked
Docker-Generated Experiment Planning
Experiment Frontier Lab
A 3D decision surface for choosing the next sewage-to-fuel bench campaigns across HTL yield, aqueous risk, PFAS/metals control, upgrading severity, and product readiness.
frontier or stage-best runs
portfolio runs selected
Pyomo decision variables formulated
Integration
HTL plus AD aqueous recovery
A hybrid HTL/AD train can recover energy from process water, but methane yield and inhibition must be measured on real sludge water.
- Feedstock
- Municipal sludge plus HTL aqueous byproduct
- Lever
- Anaerobic digestion of process water
- Conditions
- 315 C, 20 min, 18% solids
- Product lens
- Biocrude plus methane credit
BMP methaneCOD removalammoniumsalinityvolatile acidstoxicitynet energy
The Docker model selected 5 runs under a 100-unit budget: baseline, co-feed yield, aqueous recovery, PFAS/metals partitioning, and hydrotreating stabilization.
Recommended bench campaign
Run the highest-information portfolio before claiming product readiness
The generated portfolio spends 94 of 100 budget units and keeps average risk at 41.7. It deliberately pairs baseline sludge HTL with co-feed yield, aqueous energy recovery, PFAS/metals partitioning, and hydrotreating stabilization.
HTL plus AD aqueous recovery
A hybrid HTL/AD train can recover energy from process water, but methane yield and inhibition must be measured on real sludge water.
Food-waste co-HTL yield push
A food-waste co-feed may improve carbon conversion and diesel-range signal if aqueous and logistics penalties stay bounded.
Mild hydrotreating stabilization
Mild hydrotreating can stabilize nitrogen-rich sludge biocrude, but should not be promoted as finished diesel proof.
Ca(OH)2 PFAS/metals partition run
Lime-assisted hydrothermal treatment may improve PFOA and metals partitioning, but PFOS and ash burden remain hard gates.
Municipal sludge HTL baseline
Establish the site-specific oil, gas, char, aqueous, nitrogen, sulfur, ash, PFAS, and metals ledger before optimizing anything.
frontier-water-research-2026
Hydrothermal liquefaction of municipal sludge: biocrude production and fuel quality upgrading
2026 review emphasizing byproduct use, pilot integration, catalyst innovation, and fuel-quality upgrading limits.
Open sourcefrontier-rsc-wet-waste-2026
Wet-waste HTL TEA/LCA with marine fuel, SAF, and renewable diesel strategies
Separates sewage sludge, manure, and food waste across product-slate upgrading strategies.
Open sourcefrontier-aqueous-recirculation-2025
Aqueous phase recirculation in sewage sludge HTL
Six recirculation cycles frame the yield-versus-water-burden experiment.
Open sourcefrontier-pilot-micropollutants-2021
Pilot-scale sludge HTL energy and micropollutant fate
Supports pilot-scale mass/energy and micropollutant tracking rather than oil-yield-only claims.
Open sourcefrontier-lammps-reaxff-pfas-2025
Reactive molecular dynamics approach to PFAS plasma oxidation in water
ReaxFF/LAMMPS-style methods are a future molecular mechanism branch for scoped PFAS destruction questions.
Open sourcefrontier-dwsim
DWSIM open-source chemical process simulator
Open-source flowsheeting, TEA/LCA, and Python-scriptable simulation tooling for later process models.
Open source