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Washington, DC: NOSB Considers Digestate Use Petition The National Organic Standards Board (NOSB) of the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has agreed to consider a petition from Cenergy USA, the makers of Magic Dirt™, to allow use of digestate from anaerobic digestion plants in organic agriculture. Magic Dirt is made from digested dairy manure fibers. The soil amendment products ...

Jul. 6, 2017

By BioCycle Magazine

Anaerobic Digest

Boulder, Colorado: U.S. Distributed Renewables Forecast Published Navigant Research, a market research and consulting firm in Boulder, recently published the “U.S. Distributed Renewables Deployment Forecast, 2016-2025.” The report notes that deployment of distributed renewables, such as wind, solar and anaerobic digestion facilities, in the U.S. has accelerated in the last ...

Aug. 31, 2016

By BioCycle Magazine

Anaerobic Digest

Wilsonville, Oregon: Food Scraps Digester Proposed An anaerobic digester with capacity to process 50,000 to 70,000 tons/year of commercial food waste is being proposed in Wilsonville by Sustainable Organics Recycling Technology (SORT) Bioenergy. Wilsonville is in the Portland metro area. Currently, a portion of commercial food scraps from the metro area are hauled to the ...

Feb. 29, 2016

By BioCycle Magazine

The economics of advanced digestion

Abstract Historically, the focus sewage sludge digestion was to stabilise the sludge and reduce the odour emitted. Pathogen reduction, solids destruction and biogas production then became important. In recent years a number of advanced digestion processes have become available which can be added to the conventional digestion process. Initially advanced treatment methods for treating sludge were ...

Dec. 14, 2009

By Cambi Group AS

January Anaerobic Digest

San Francisco Bay Region, California: ABC Digester Operator Training Course The American Biogas Council (ABC) has organized a 3-day, hands-on operator training course, February 6-8, 2018 in the San Francisco Bay area, that focuses on digester operations overall with an additional emphasis on renewable natural gas (RNG) and codigestion at wastewater treatment plants. Each morning starts ...

Dec. 31, 2017

By BioCycle Magazine

Thermophilic digestion revisited

On the 28th of October Colsen presented their practical experience in the field of anaerobic sludge digestion at the Ghent symposium Valorization of organic resources from wastewater. At the symposium various speakers presented its view or experience on the topic of valorization of organic resources from wastewater. Numerous examples are being developed by companies and universities ...

Nov. 17, 2016

By Colsen International b.v.

Financing an anaerobic digester

LENDERS are generally well disposed to projects that diversify revenues while lowering costs and mitigating risks. Add a ready source of equity and you are well on the way toward financing a project that is a win-win proposition for the lender and the project developer. Such is the case with the anaerobic digester project at Geerlings Hillside Farm (GHF). The Geerlings's 8,000-head hog farm is ...

Nov. 30, 2007

By BioCycle Magazine

Innovation Key To Biosolids Digestion

A $400 million project at the Blue Plains Advanced Wastewater Treatment Plant (AWTP) in Washington, D.C., involves building an innovative biosolids management system comprised of a thermal hydrolysis process, four 3.8-million gallon mesophilic digesters (measuring 70-ft tall by 100-ft in diameter) with fixed covers, a cogeneration system consisting of three 4.6-MW Solar Mercu ry 50 gas turbines ...

Sep. 30, 2012

By BioCycle Magazine

Digester Tank Cover Repair

Digester tank covers are placed on top of wastewater digester tanks and float on top of the liquid inside the tanks. The digester tank cover at this waste water treatment facility experienced corrosion damage over time due to the caustic nature and environment. Instead of a costly ($200,000) replacement, ENESEAL CR was applied after removing the old coating. Thus saving the facility a substantial ...

Jun. 9, 2016

By ENECON Corporation

Anaerobic Digestion at Dairy Farms

The need to upgrade dairy waste management practices to overcome pollution problems is leading more farmers to seek solutions with anaerobic digestion technology. Two recent examples of this trend are underway at California sites. The Cal Poly Dairy is located adjacent to the California Polytechnic State University campus in San Luis Obispo. The dairy milks 180 cows with a total population of ...

Dec. 31, 1998

By BioCycle Magazine

Latest Progress in Anaerobic Digestion

Compared to countries like Germany and Denmark, the United States and Canada have a long way to go in creating the fundamental policy incentives and regulatory mandates that will encourage market development for anaerobic digestion (AD). Someone recently asked me how many years it would take to deploy AD systems on farms in North America that are large enough to economically use them. Given ...

Dec. 31, 1998

By BioCycle Magazine

Determination of sand content in digestate

The biological treatment of separate collected waste becomes more and more important. The composting is still the dominant method of treating this waste, but the anaerobic alternative, the anaerobic digestion, plays an increasing part. In Germany already 15% of the whole capacity of biological treatment plants for separate collected biowaste are of anaerobic digestion (Kern, 1998), because of its ...

Jan. 1, 1999

By ORBIT e.V.

Effect of Secondary Aerobic Digestion on Properties of Anaerobic Digested Biosolids

ABSTRACTIn this study, the performance of sequential anaerobic-aerobic digestion was compared to conventional anaerobic digestion for sludge from the Blue Plains Advanced Wastewater Treatment Plant. Volatile solids removal, polymer conditioning demand for dewatering, and biosolids odor characteristics following anaerobic digestion and sequential anaerobic-aerobic digestion were monitored. Aerobic ...

Oct. 21, 2006

By Water Environment Federation (WEF)

Golf and a Small Anaerobic Digester

Golf course associations and golf clubs around the world are looking at ways to improve the sport’s environmental criteria. Sustainable developments and low carbon footprint operations are the name of the game. As golf courses use fertiliser for the courses, power for the maintenance machinery, and power for the golf carts, there are many areas where sustainability of the sport ...

Jul. 5, 2016

By SEaB Energy Ltd.

High dry solids digestion

Abstract Digestion of sewage sludge normally takes place at pH values between 7,0 and 7,5. Control methods of the process stability are based on practical experience such as the ratio of volatile fatty acids (VFA) and total alkalinity (TA). Thermal sludge disintegration for an enhanced digestion process allows a digester feed with higher dry solids concentrations. This is due to an ...

Dec. 19, 2014

By Cambi Group AS

Equipping Digester For Feedstock Flexibility

Bayview Flowers is a high value, greenhouse floriculture operation in Jordan Station, Ontario, Canada, that supplies wholesalers and retailers across North America. In 2007, the company installed an anaerobic digester (AD) plant to generate 250 kW of renewable energy. The system was installed to take advantage of a province-wide Feed-In-Tariff (FIT) incentive program to increase the amount of ...

Jul. 31, 2016

By BioCycle Magazine

Anaerobic digestion in the United Kingdom

Anaerobic digestion (AD) has been used to treat sewage sludge by the United Kingdom’s (UK) water industry for over 100 years. More recent years have seen a revolution as AD has swiftly expanded into agricultural feedstocks and food waste. Data from the Waste Resource and Action Programme (WRAP) shows that in the past year alone, there has been a 46 percent growth in the size of the sector. ...

Apr. 30, 2013

By BioCycle Magazine

Digester gas - case study

BV Dairy, of Dorset, is aiming to cut its carbon footprint by more than 65% as a pioneer of liquid Anaerobic Digestion (AD) technology BV Dairy, Shaftsbury, Dorset Established in 1958, BV Dairy processes around 35 million litres of milk per year, sourced from 35 farms located near its site. The product range includes fresh and cultured dairy products for sale to the UK’s ...

Oct. 30, 2011

By ENER-G

Anaerobic digestion of aliphatic polyesters

Anaerobic processes for the treatment of plastic materials waste represent versatile and effective approach in environmental protection and solid waste management. In this work, anaerobic biodegradability of model aliphatic polyesters, poly(L-lactic acid) (PLA), and poly(ɛ-caprolactone) (PCL), in the form of powder and melt-pressed films with varying molar mass, was studied. Biogas production ...

Feb. 15, 2016

By IWA Publishing

Advances in Thermophilic Anaerobic Digestion

ABSTRACTSignificant advances have been made in the knowledge base and practical options for improving thermophilic anaerobic digestion over the past 10 to 15 years. Today, more options exist that promise to enhance the degree of stabilization achieved and finished product quality in new and retrofitted existing processes. In parallel, the body of knowledge regarding pathogen inactivation in these ...

Oct. 21, 2006

By Water Environment Federation (WEF)

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