biodigester Articles
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Quantifying Fugitive Emissions from Biodigesters
Background Agricultural biodigesters reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions & generate clean energy. GHG reduction depends on many factors (design, feedstock, etc.), including the amount of fugitive CH4 emissions. Quantifying fugitive emissions is difficult -- commonly assumed: 15% of total CH4 production (California Climate Action Registry ) 15% of production (CDM 2005); 10% of ...
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Floating community ecological sanitation project on the Tonle Sap Lake
Water and sanitation are some of the most pressing issues facing people in rural Cambodia, and they are even more difficult to access for people that live in floating and flood-affected communities on Cambodia’s waterways. Human development in the country is still restrained by pollution and poor health, yet there is a lack of appropriate ...
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RTI`s Co-digester Creator V. 3.0 (beta)
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 digester. It ...
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Grand Rapids Water Resource Recovery Facility, Michigan US - Case Study
The Grand Rapids Environmental Services Department operates the water resource recovery facility to keep all untreated sewage out of the Grand River in Michigan. The plant collects and treats an average of 40 million gallons of wastewater a day, using state-of-the-art technology in order to process the wastewater in the most sustainable way possible. As the plant is not a utility, it would not ...
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Innovation and efficiency at the forefront of long-standing partnership - Case Study
Wiltshire-based Malaby Biogas operates one of the few independent anaerobic digestion (AD) plants in the UK, specialising in the diversion of food waste from landfill. Its Bore Hill Farm Biodigester provides a combined waste disposal and energy generation solution in one safe, clean and highly-efficient process and the facility has gained a wide-ranging reputation for its innovation and ...
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Evaluation of the aerobic and anaerobic biodegradability of the antibiotic norfloxacin
The purpose of studying the biodegradability of pharmaceutical compounds is to evaluate their behaviors in relation to the treatment processes generally used in domestic and industrial wastewater treatment plants. The antibiotic norfloxacin was found to be a recalcitrant compound. The studies conducted showed norfloxacin removal rates of 12% and 18% when biomasses from treatments ...
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Biogas digesters for Cambodians: A multi-partner national biodigester program in Cambodia
Water and sanitation are one of the most pressing issues facing people in rural Cambodia. Of particular difficulty for sanitation advocates in Cambodia is the old habit of open defecation, with the result of exposing human excreta to the environment. This leads to water and soil contamination and to widespread disease outbreaks. The UN estimated that, in 2008, only 23% of ...
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Biogas digesters for Vietnamese: a multi-partner national Biodigester program in Vietnam
Water and sanitation are one of the most pressing issues facing people in rural Vietnam. Of particular difficulty for sanitation advocates in Vietnam is the habit of using raw feces to fertilize rice fields, with the result of exposing human excreta to the environment. This leads to water and soil contamination and to widespread disease outbreaks. The UN estimated that, in 2010, only 18% of rural ...
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HomeBiogas Biodigesters and Toilets Community Project in Guatemala
Last week, HomeBiogas installed twelve backyard biogas systems and two HomeBiogas Toilets in a small town of Guatemala called Jalpatagua. The project was in cooperation with the Guatemalan-Israel Fund for Investment and Development in Guatemala and the Guatemala National Lottery, both of which sponsored the systems in honor of the President of Guatemala. HomeBiogas co-founder and chief ...
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Capital Dock Dublin Ireland, Aramark Properties- Harp CX2 Biodigester Case Study
Be Well. Do Well.™ is Aramark’s sustainability plan. It sums up their goal to make a positive impact on people and planet over the next five years. Harp Renewables were delighted to be part of that impact in providing Aramark with a Harp CX2 Biodigester at their Capital Dock premises in Dublin. Michael Farrell, estate manager at Capital Dock who represents Aramark on their 4.8 acres mix ...
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CR&R Perris Biodigester
Location: 1706 Goetz Rd Perris, CA 92570 Partners: CR&R Waste and Recycling Services J.R. Miller and Associates W M Lyles Co. Contact: Mike Silva Project Manager CR&R Incorporated (714) 883-3777 MichaelS@crrmail.com Feedstock: Organic Waste (food scraps, green waste, FOGs) Vehicles Fueled: 200 trucks initially; 900 trucks at completion Maximum Annual Fuel ...
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More Industries, Regions Discovering Power of Anaerobic Digestion
Anaerobic digestion can turn waste into a valuable resource Billions of tons of organic waste are generated every day by households, industries, and municipalities. It’s discarded into landfills or discharged as effluent, or both, at a huge cost to the environment. But what if that waste could be turned into energy? The good news is that it can, through anaerobic digestion. In anaerobic ...
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Project - Kalkaska - Wastewater Treatment Plant
Kalkaska, Michigan 500,000 Gallon Bio-solids Tank & Digester ...
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Commercial - Area 5, Italy - Case Study
Problem with high levels of FOG in wastewater resulting in the need for frequent pumping and emptying of the grease trap, which has been dramatically reduced using a BioAmp. Area 5 is the new washing station for commercial, industrial, construction vehicles and tourism buses. It’s modern equipment is in line with the most rigorous regulatory requirements regarding control, hygiene ...
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European Experiences With the Treatment and Digestion of Bio-Organic Waste
In the area of waste management environmental awareness has essentially increased and according technologies got more and more accepted in Europe within more than ten years now. During all the time BTA has gathered experiences by developing and realising flexible concepts for biowaste treatment plants of different design and capacities for the treatment of various waste streams: full scale plants ...
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Penair Highschool invest in Harp Bio-digester CX5 - Case Study
Penair Highschool decided to invest in a Harp Bio-digester CX5 with an integrated biomass boiler. This digester can process 2,000 litres of organic waste a week. This in turn saves the school an astonishing £11,000 annually. Before the Bio-digester they were spending an astronomical £11,000 on waste collection. Penair now have a complete food waste to energy process. By having this ...
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Coffee farmers adopt unusual technology to purify water
A Dutch certification body, UTZ has proposed a new water treatment programme. The programme claims to purify water. Sebastián Mairena, coffee grower in Nicaragua Matagalpa admitted to feeling a little sceptical when he first heard of the water treatment programme. He said, ‘I thought, ‘I’ll believe it when I see it’. The technology is being part funded by Hivos, ...
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Sustainable Solutions for Italian Biochemical Plant - Case Study
PROJECT DETAILS LOCATION Adria, Italy CUSTOMER Mater-Biotech (Novamont Group) SOLUTION Well-Water Potabilization, Wastewater Treatment, Waste-to-Energy TECHNOLOGIES Air Scrubber, Sand Filtration, Double-Stage Nitrification-Denitrification, Membrane Bioreactor, CSTR Anaerobic Digester When Italian biochemical company Mater-Biotech, a subsidiary of Novamont, bought an existing facility and ...
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Municipalities Moving Toward Anaerobic Digestion
As organic materials make up a greater and greater proportion of municipal waste streams, creative alternatives such as anaerobic digestion are needed. Although local governments often hesitate to experiment with technologies on the taxpayers’ dime, several cities are venturing forward into using anaerobic digestion for diverting waste and producing energy. Many of these efforts are the ...
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Types of Anaerobic Digesters
Biogas, a methane-rich mix of gases created by anaerobic digestion, can be burned to generate electricity or heat, or it can be processed further to produce a valuable source of renewable energy. Different technologies can be used to tailor a solution that makes the most of specific feedstocks Anaerobic digestion is a natural biological process in which bacteria decompose organic matter in ...
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