Sentences with phrase «of digesters»

The annotations are created in much the same way as the Nova Scotia Law News digests, using the roster of volunteers to vet the work of our digesters.

According to a calculation I performed for improvements in manure management and clean energy for cooking, one year's worth of digesters can over their lifetimes prevent 16 Mt of carbon dioxide - equivalent emissions.

The legal owner of the digester is the taxpayer - supported Cayuga County Soil and Water Conservation District, and it still owes most of that local project money back to the county.

Our discussions with the Brubakers continued, and after exploring other alternatives, the Brubakers selected NativeEnergy to purchase upfront the carbon emission reductions and RECs associated with the operation of the digester and generator.

On behalf of our customers, NativeEnergy bought, in advance, the carbon offsets associated with the operation of the digester.

With plans to sell the surplus generic electricity to their power provider, the Wanners turned toNativeEnergy to provide an upfront purchase of the digester's RECs and carbon offsets to help fund the project.

Not exact matches

Approximately 30,000 gallons of juice (75 percent of the waste) per day is then diverted to an anaerobic digester manufactured by Biothane, where bacteria feeds upon it and converts it to methane and CO2.

Since the scientists said it would work, I took the big step of going to the next level and putting in the anaerobic digester.»

In addition, 34 percent of Grande Cheese's milk supply is produced with renewable power such as from methane digesters.

The methane digester makes electricity from the manure of Straus Creamery cows.

Primarily, this investment will see a doubling of office space with increased storage facilities and the development of a new purpose - built laboratory for Research and Development (R&D) with three state - of - the - art pilot plants, which will test and trial pre - and post-treatment liquid and solid organic waste streams, to ensure optimal anaerobic digester performance.

The many additional sustainability programs that Albert Straus has implemented at the dairy and creamery include methane - digester technology to convert dairy waste into energy, an extensive water - reuse system and production of milk in reusable glass bottles.

Finally, the attendees talked about the power of and need for partnerships to solve the many reasons for food waste, including sharing stories of existing efforts like the three companies in the Midwest who are splitting the cost and use of an anaerobic digester, which turns food scraps into energy, and several food donation groups who highlighted the effectiveness of successful partnerships.

The RAPTOR ™ process (or Rapid Transformation of Organic Residues) is a powerful anaerobic digestion process which in this application consists of a mechanical pretreatment of the organic residues (mainly the potato peels), thermophilic hydrolysis in a TAR (Thermophilic Acidogenic Reactor) followed by methane fermentation in a thermophilic digester of the ANAMIX ™ - T type.

According to CST Wastewater Solutions, which supplied the GWE digester in 1996, the concept of using wastewater to create green energy is much more widely applicable than is often realised.

Loading rates of up to 10 - 15 kg COD / m3 per day, and biogas production rates of up to 6.3 Nm3 per digester per day, can be obtained in RAPTOR plants, depending on the nature of the substrate.

The digestate from the digester is usually treated in a centrifuge for removal and disposal of non-digestible solids in the form of wet sludge cake, ideal for use as an agricultural fertiliser.

The liquid concentrate from the digester is added to the fresh solid waste in the slurry - making stage, or recycled to a TAR treatment, or ultimately disposed of in a conventional wastewater treatment plant.

Out of a 3,300 m ³ digester for the potato peels and primary sludge, GWE is able to produce up to 14,150 m ³ of biogas per day from ± 230 Ton of organic residues per day (potato peels + primary sludge).

The Vaughan pump prevents re-accumulation of fibrous and fatty material in the digester and this means that material continues to pass through the nozzles, he said.

To put that into perspective, if two - thirds of California dairies added methane digesters to their manure management practices, the reduction in emissions would be the equivalent of taking about one million passenger vehicles off the road, according to Straus Family Creamery's calculations.

A large portion of the carbon farm plan (about 80 % or 1650 metric tons of CO2e) is mitigated through methane destruction from the methane digester.

The digester has significantly reduced methane emissions by over 1,600 metric tons of CO2e each year — equivalent to eliminating the annual greenhouse gas emissions from about 350 passenger cars.

Students are made to be passive consumers of content (or «knowledge digesters»), as if preparing for the world of 1953, rather than becoming the «knowledge transformers» needed in an increasingly competitive global environment.

Crouch said that there are 150 local jobs as well as a methane digester project being pursued by the Village of Walton at stake.

The governor also announced plans for new incentives for farmers to increase the use of «anaerobic digesters,» which helps turn waste produced on farm — such as cow manure — into energy that farms can use.

Edel and student collaborators at the Illinois Institute of Technology are also building a custom - designed digester that will turn the project's leftover vegetable and fish waste into fertilizer and biogas to power a heating, cooling, and 280 - kilowatt electrical system.

In the absence of oxygen inside a digester, bacteria break down the compounds in sewage to create gaseous methane, which can be used to power gas stoves or converted to electricity.

Microgy of Portsmouth, New Hampshire, has licensed Danish digester technology and, without subsidies, started building plants on five Wisconsin dairies.

Anaerobic digesters take those uncovered piles of sitting manure and place them in large covered tanks.

His group's study of Methanosaeta started when they found that digesters converting brewery wastes to methane contained large quantities of the microorganism Geobacter.

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.

Illustrated with the author's photographs, Infrastructure reveals a strange beauty in objects such as the egglike sludge digesters at a Boston sewage treatment plant, the tangled pipes of an oil refinery, and the wooden water towers perched atop the roofs of New York City.

Environmental groups and researchers have long focused on controlling livestock emissions through the use of gas - trapping digesters that have the potential to convert manure methane into usable energy.

Metabolic Adaptation of Methanogens in Anaerobic Digesters Upon Trace Element Limitation — Babett Wintsche — Frontiers in Microbiology

Performance and microbial community variations of anaerobic digesters under increasing tetracycline concentrations.

In this process, the wastes are put into a closed airtight concrete tank — or digester — which, in the absence of oxygen and through a process of anaerobic digestion, transforms these wastes into biogas.

A range of parameters are known to shape the methanogenic communities of biogas - producing digesters and to strongly influence the amount of biogas produced.

It is clear from the anthropological record, evolutionary biology and basic anatomy humans are acid digesters, not hindgut or ruminant digesters and thus evolved to be fat burning animals which are uniquely capable of metabolizing sugar on those seasonal occasions where fruits, berries or tubers were ripe.

Man has one simple stomach as well, but we have a tiny cecum (our appendix) which makes us poor digesters of fiber such as grasses and bark and therefore different from the rabbit.

With Park Spark, small - scale passive anaerobic digesters are a common low - tech machine used around the world in places like India, China, and parts of South America.

Perhaps instead of focusing on regulation and instead focusing on incenting positive behavior, we could get more digesters in place which would produce clean energy, reduce the amount of nitrogen and other nutrient pollution and provide farmers with another couple sources of revenue (electricity sales, fiber bedding sales (or savings) and increased fertilizer value of the liquid digestate as compared to raw manure.

Loowatt shows this cute cartoon of a guy using his Loowatt, taking his poop roller suitcase to the local digester, then picking up some local food, no doubt fertilized by the digester residue, cooked on local biogas, It's all a closed loop.

Shortly after the startup of the farm's new high - efficiency milking facilities in 2002, Shawn Saylor began investigating the use of an anaerobic digester to improve their manure management system and control operating costs.

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.

Alkaline spent liquor is removed from the digesters in the process of chemically pulping wood.

(c) Prohibit the use of conventional / traditional biomass in inefficient wood stoves in developing countries and instead move to highly - efficient biomass woodstoves and biogas digesters, and other renewable energy sources.

One need look no further than rural Yunnan province to see how big this potential is: every year the province has a target of installing 200,000 new household biogas digesters.

It is producing electricity with a 200 kW generator while recovering the waste heat to both heat the digester and reduce the use of oil - fired water heating required on the farm.