anaerobic digester

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anaerobic digester

A closed bioreactor in which anaerobic bacteria digest sewage, producing methane and CO2.

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Anaerobic digester technology is actually fairly basic: cattle manure is pumped into a tank (the Hoffs plan to use a concrete tank, although some digesters use steel tanks) where anaerobic bacteria break down components by feeding on the volatile fatty acids of the manure, creating methane gas.

Dairy waste can yield green energy

Claire Fernandez, who lives near <Bthe anaerobic digester in Consett

'I'm angry after putting up with summer of stink'

More recently, the Stop & Shop Supermarket Company broke ground on an anaerobic digester facility in Freetown, Massachusetts, with a planned capacity of 95 tons per day and expected opening date of early 2016.

A second life for scraps: making biogas from food waste

The boiler system also provides heat to the pasteurisers prior to the anaerobic digesters.

Fulton boiler assists diversion of food waste

The anaerobic digester, as well as consuming all of the cow poop, takes another 200 tonnes of organic waste each day from several area municipalities.

Virtuous loop of cow poop

Anaerobic digesters are large tanks, broadly resembling gasometers.

Let's not waste our food waste

e anaerobic digester will work by using microbes to break down the organic materials to transform them into a biogas which will be used to heat the chemical plant.

Green energy project a boost for agriculture

HRS DTI heat exchangers are ideal for heating sludge in anaerobic digesters as the corrugated tubes provide an internal tube profile that inhibits fouling tendencies and increases the rate of heat transfer.

HRS system for Cory Environmental

It covered similar topics such as use of straw as fuel, chicken litter and other animal manure, anaerobic digesters, willow growing.

Independent biofuel supply could be energy solution; viewpoint

4-million gallon anaerobic digester tank in Lewiston, Maine, generates enough electricity to offset 80 percent of the energy used at its wastewater treatment facility.

Millbury reports on anaerobic digester feasibility

Then the market is segmented according to primary fuel sources such as Hydrogen, Natural Gas/ Methane, Methanol, and Anaerobic Digester Gas.

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The market is also segmented according to primary fuel sources such as Hydrogen, Natural Gas/ Methane, Methanol, and Anaerobic Digester Gas.

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