grease digestion Articles

At the end of 2006 the City of Millbrae, California completed a $5.5 million wastewater treatment plant improvement project at no additional cost to the City’s ratepayers. The project improved cogeneration facilities, provided an automated grease trap waste receiving station, improved digester heating, replaced the aging main electrical switchgear, and enhanced digester mixing. Costs for the ...

Oct. 13, 2007

By Water Environment Federation (WEF)

Many drivers tend to foster the development of renewable energy production in wastewater treatment plants as many expectations rely upon energy recovery from sewage sludge, for example through biogas use. This paper is focused on the assessment of grease waste (GW) as an adequate substrate for co-digestion with municipal sludge, as it has a methane potential of 479–710 LCH4/kg VS, as well as the ...

Jan. 1, 2012

By IWA Publishing

Grease waste (GW) is an adequate substrate for sewage sludge co-digestion since, coming from a waste water treatment plant, it has a high methane potential (489 NmLCH4/gVSin); however, no synergistic effect takes place when co-digesting with 52%VS grease. Conversely, thermal hydrolysis (TH) improves the anaerobic digestion of GW (43% higher kinetics) and biological sludge ...

May 7, 2014

By IWA Publishing

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 ...

Oct. 1, 2012

By BioCycle Magazine

Waste Type: Fats, oils and grease (FOG) in Anaerobic Digesters Problem: FOG waste poses a challenge for most municipal wastewater collection systems and treatment plants. Although fats, oils and grease will biodegrade in an anaerobic digester, high concentrations will tend to 'mat' on the sludge surface, lowering digestion efficiency. This Midwestern municipal facility was no different. The 1.5 ...

Apr. 23, 2007

By Bio-Systems International

Greasebeta Helps Meat Processing Plant Impress Water Authority Northumbrian Water is reportedly “over the moon” with Tyne & Wear based meat product manufacturer SMP (GB) Ltd since the company installed a GreaseBeta system from Cleveland Biotech in April 2005, preventing its production processes polluting and blocking the public drains. “After we received a ...

May 25, 2011

By Cleveland Biotech Ltd.

Grease traps or Grease interceptors capture the grease that goes down the kitchen drains. The simple fixture prevents slimy build up inside the drainpipes, which may result in choked drains and backflows. It is essential to cleanout these traps timely before the build up is too high to tackle. Properly maintained grease interceptors allow smooth operation of the drains by keeping the water ...

Sep. 11, 2013

By Hydra International Ltd

The article focuses on the integration of Direct Steam Injection (DSI) heating as a method for heating of Municapal, Industrial, Food, & Agricultural wastewater streams. Common applications are anerobic digestion, biogas production, waste de-activation, and FOG (Fats-Oils-Grease) heating. Topics covered include how DSI works, how to select a DSI heater suitable for viscous & difficult to ...

Feb. 2, 2009

By ProSonix LLC

Over the last year, Loyola Marymount University (LMU) has installed and studied a food waste diversion technology that converts raw food waste into a liquid effluent that is disposed through the sewer system. As an urban university located in West Los Angeles, California, LMU faces two major barriers with respect to composting food waste: on-campus space constraints and long distances to off-site ...

Sep. 1, 2012

By BioCycle Magazine

What is the most proactive solution for companies that need to combat the build-up of fat, oil and grease and end the costly problem of clearing blocked drains.  It is estimated that fat, oil and grease causes approximately 75pc of blocked drains and related floods requiring the need to clear clogged drains. Despite the management of waste streams that can cause blocked drains being taken ...

Jun. 9, 2011

By Cleveland Biotech Ltd.

The objective of this study is to investigate the mesophilic, anaerobic, co-digestion of scum with thickened waste activated sludge (TWAS) and primary sludge (PS). Observations of the reactor waste show that higher pretreatment temperatures assist in scum integration and appear to limit coagulation and separation effects associated with digesting fats, oils and greases. The 0.40 kg VS/m3 · d ...

Feb. 25, 2016

By IWA Publishing

March 13, 2013.  In conjunction with this year's Global Methane Initiative conference taking place now in Vancouver, RTI is launching our next version of our codigestion creator software, version 3.0.  Biodigestion is the anaerobic decomposition of organic material with methane (biogas) as an output.  Co-digestion is the simultaneous digestion of more than one feedstock in a single ...

Jan. 28, 2014

By IWA Publishing

Excessive foaming in anaerobic digesters has been a problem for many years. All anaerobic digesters will foam to some extent, but excessive foam can be problematic. Excessive foaming is defined as foam that interferes with flow through the gas piping system and/or is not contained within the digester. Causes of foaming include presence of excessive filamentous bacteria, extreme amounts of oils ...

Oct. 21, 2006

By Water Environment Federation (WEF)

1.0 Introduction The effluent from Greencore is treated by a hybrid AD facility which incorporates UASB granular sludge bed and fixed film media technology. The plant is not designed to treat fats, oils and greases and the presence of fats, oils and grease (FOG) has two detrimental effects on plant performance, namely; FOG’s coat the UASB sludge granules causing then to ...

Aug. 19, 2014

ABSTRACTThis paper focuses on the revival of a formerly failed digester of 1800 m3 volume. The most obvious cause of failure was identified to be due to capping caused by foam and scum, as result of attempting to treat oil rich, high strength wastewater. The revival was affected by implementing co-digestion in a 3-step remedial procedure. Though in the typical sense, codigestion involves separate ...

Oct. 22, 2006

By Water Environment Federation (WEF)

ABSTRACT Thermal hydrolytic pretreatment of wastewater sludge followed by mesophilic anaerobic digestion poses significant benefits in terms of sludge minimization and pathogen reduction; however, high levels of volatile fatty acids (VFA) in digester effluent reveal an interruption in the efficient conversion of organic material to methane gas. Residual soluble chemical oxygen demand (COD) not ...

Dec. 15, 2009

By Cambi Group AS

Co-digestion and pre-treatment have been recognized as effective, low-cost and commercially viable approaches to reduce anaerobic digestion process limitations and improve biogas yields. In our previous batch-scale study, fat, oil, and grease (FOG) was investigated as a suitable potential co-substrate, and thermo-chemical pre-treatment (TCPT) at pH = 10 and 55 °C improved CH4 ...

Jan. 29, 2014

By IWA Publishing

ABSTRACTGrowing concern over the cost of power and long-term availability of limited fossil fuel resources for the production of electricity have caused electrical utilities and governments to promote “green” or renewable power. Solar, wind, geothermal, biomass, biogas, and low-impact hydroelectricity are current acceptable green-power sources. Digester gas is a renewable, green energy resource ...

Oct. 22, 2006

By Water Environment Federation (WEF)

Municipal wastewater treatment plants are increasingly interested in waste-to-energy technologies as a way to reduce operating costs. The East Bay Municipal Utility District (EBMUD) identified and evaluated a number of waste-to-energy technologies that had potential for application at its Main Wastewater Treatment Plant (MWWTP) in Oakland, California. These technologies included conventional ...

Oct. 21, 2006

By Water Environment Federation (WEF)

Anaerobic digestion is increasingly being considered as a treatment option for an extensive range of waste biomass, due to the potential for energy recovery, in the form of methane production, and lower sludge volumes relative to aerobic treatment processes. Furthermore, when two substrates are codigested (i.e. digested together), added benefits are foreseeable, such as increased methane ...

Dec. 1, 2011

By IWA Publishing