Not exact matches
In addition, 34 percent of Grande Cheese's milk supply is
produced with renewable power such as from
methane digesters.
Albert Straus — who runs the operation — says they're committed to sustainable production at every level, from the way they cultivate their pastures to feed their cows, to the
methane digester they use to
produce their energy, to the reusable glass bottles they use to package the milk.
Some plants are starting to send it to anaerobic
digesters, where it's fermented to
produce methane.
Also,
methane produced in anaerobic biomass
digesters is economically important as «one of the few proven, economical, large - scale bioenergy strategies» in use today, they say.
Methanosaeta were the dominant
methane -
producing microorganisms in the
digesters and known to convert acetate to
methane, but analysis of the gene expression in the
digester revealed that Methanosaeta were also highly expressing genes for converting carbon dioxide to
methane.
In Madagascar it is being used as a «toilet service» where the deposits are picked up and taken to an anaerobic
digester to
produce methane and clean fertilizer.
At the base of the Bay Bridge in Oakland, the district feeds a mix of sludge, commercial food scraps, and other organic waste into an array of 12 gigantic anaerobic
digesters that
produce methane, also called biogas.
With U.S. livestock and poultry production now concentrated in large facilities, the use of animal waste in anaerobic
digesters to
produce methane (natural gas) is catching on fast.
Four years ago Duffy Connolly, owner of Burrows Hall Farm, approached Santee Cooper with the idea of building an anaerobic
digester that could capture
methane gas, naturally
produced on his hog farm, and turn that
methane into a fuel source for electricity.
Environmental Fabrics is building the
methane digester that officials say will
produce enough electricity to power 90 South Carolina homes.
NativeEnergy is helping the community of Enumclaw, Washington, build an energy -
producing methane digester.
97 tons of collected waste would be fed each day into anaerobic
digesters that
produce methane gas, which then runs General Electric Jenbacher gas - fired generators.
It also captures the heat
produced when the
methane is burned for the turbines and uses it to warm the
digester tanks.
The
digester and generator were destroyed, although the farm has since covered a second lagoon to which it is diverting all of the farm's manure, and it is flaring the
methane produced.