Digester

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Digester: - In wastewater treatment, a closed tank; in solid-waste conversion, a unit in which bacterial action is induced and accelerated in order to break down organic matter and establish the proper carbon to nitrogen ratio.
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Controversial Illinois plan digested  -  04 Aug 2008
Dubuque Telegraph Herald,Bos still said no -- until Tuesday, when the Illinois Department of Agriculture held a public meeting to discuss Bos' request to install a digester.

Utility director tackling West Side's unique stink  -  04 Aug 2008
Journal and Courier,A: The Digester Renovation Project has made it necessary to store untreated solids in the biosolids lagoon. This is a temporary situation.

City, port discuss preserving waterfront history  -  04 Aug 2008
Bellingham Herald,Metal digester tanks inside one of the brick buildings are more than 70 feet tall, and it hasn't been determined if they could be removed without destroying

Got power? SMUD starts using power from manure digester  -  Jul 28, 2008
Bizjournals.com,The Sacramento Municipal Utility District began using power from a manure digester at Cal-Denier Dairy on Monday. It’s the first manure digester in the

Anaerobic digester bedding byproduct is an added benefit  -  Jul 31, 2008
Biomass Magazine,By Ryan C. Christiansen While building a 300 kilowatt-hour anaerobic digester on his dairy farm to convert cow manure from 1200 head of cattle into

CCP not to close down anaerobic digester plant  -  Jul 31, 2008
Navhind Times,PANAJI — The Corporation of the City of Panaji, on Wednesday made it clear that it will not close down the 7-month old anaerobic digester plant for wet

Public hearing on digester tonight  -  Jul 29, 2008
Dubuque Telegraph Herald,APPLE RIVER, Ill. -- A public hearing will be held so community members can voice their opinion on a methane digester at the proposed dairy near Nora.

Farmers turning manure into cash  -  Jul 31, 2008
United Press InternationalDoug and Tom Block of Illinois have installed a methane digester on their family dairy farm. The digester breaks down waste from more than 800 cows and

TF Council to Vote on Digester Remodeling  -  Jul 28, 2008
istockAnalyst.com,28--The Twin Falls City Council will decide tonight whether to spend more than $123000 to replace the lining of the digester at the city's wastewater

Orangeburg plant rated 'unsatisfactory'  -  Aug 1, 2008
Lower Hudson Journal news,That would allow about 750000 gallons of sludge from a digester tank to be moved into the holding tanks. The remaining 350000 gallons in the digester tank

Work to resume in digester unit  -  Jul 26, 2008
Daily Gleaner,By The Daily Gleaner Construction workers are expected to return to work inside part of AV Nackawic's digester unit today after officials ordered a cleanup

EVEN LIFE IN THE BIG CITY CAN BE ECO-FRIENDLY  -  Aug 1, 2008
The Times-Picayune - NOLA.com,Despite the tinge of outlandishness, should any reader want to make a bench-scale biogas digester or any of the book's other projects, he or she will find

Methane Digester Field Day attracts 200 people to Brooten  -  Jul 21, 2008
Agri News,More than 200 people attended the recent methane digester field day on Jerry and Linda Jennissen's Brooten farm. The Jennissen's methane digester pilot

Claim a cut-price digester  -  Jul 23, 2008
Basingstoke Gazette,By Eleanor Stride BOROUGH residents are being urged to come forward and claim one of hundreds of cut-price food waste digesters that are up for grabs.

Biomass digester to use dairy waste  -  Jul 15, 2008
Biomass Magazine,By Ryan C. Christiansen Several years after a biomass digester was first proposed to help consume waste from local dairy operations and prevent runoff into

Farmers tapping into cow power  -  Aug 2, 2008
Greater Milwaukee Today,Volm is installing an anaerobic digester system to convert waste from the dairy cows into energy. "It’s supposed to be a lot better for the environment.

Cows to generate electricity  -  Jul 29, 2008
Central Valley Business Times,A dairy equipped with a manure digester will use if to make biogas to fuel a generator to supply electricity to the Sacramento Municipal Utility District.

Decision day for £6m eco-village  -  Jul 28, 2008
WalesOnline,A digester will extract methane from piles of manure and a nearby biomass plant will provide additional energy from waste wood.

Treating Digester Off-Gas from Wet Mill Ethanol Production  -  Jul 11, 2008
Ethanol Producer Magazine,Merichem Gas Technology Product’s trademarked LO-CAT technology is a viable alternative for removing hydrogen sulfide from digester gas produced as part of

Scandinavian Biogas Business: Great Hope for Michigan  -  Jul 25, 2008
MLive.com,Each cooperative invests in a shared biogas digester, which in turn provides heat and electricity to each independent operator. The digesters are fed with

Process and parse XML with ease using Jakarta Digester  -  Jul 7, 2008
Builder AU,The Jakarta Project offers a third option, via its Digester component: writing rules to map XML elements into Java objects and defining complex actions for

Sarjiyo: Seizing the energy crisis moment  -  Jul 8, 2008
Jakarta Post,With a bio-digester in his home since 2006, Sarjiyo has spent no more money to buy kerosene or liquefied natural gas (LNG). The biogas from the solid waste

Potato skins converted into power  -  Jul 25, 2008
BBC News,A generator, called an anaerobic digester, will convert the waste. Mr Johnson also aims to process 7000 tonnes of agricultural crops and 2000 tonnes of

Sarawak firms to produce biofuel  -  Jul 24, 2008
Malaysia Star,The project involves a bio-digester set up by AES to trap gas produced by rotting wastes. The two companies now plan to harness the gas and turn it into a

SMUD fires up manure power at Galt dairy  -  Jul 24, 2008
Sacramento Bee,The manure digester is at Cal-Denier Dairy in Galt, where 500 milk cows will become SMUD's latest source of renewable power, according to a district news

St. Thomas to Highlight Alternative Sources of Energy at Denbigh  -  Jul 31, 2008
Government of Jamaica, Jamaica Information Service,Deputy Parish Manager at the St. Thomas RADA office, Peter Thompson, told JIS News that the display would highlight a bio-digester system, solar energy and

Kibera’s bio-latrine  -  Jul 6, 2008
East African,The facility consists of three principal components namely: a shallow pit latrine, a bio-digester which synthesises the products to produce gas and

From Problem to Profit  -  Jul 28, 2008
Biomass Magazine,It can foul heat exchangers, choke pumps and pipes, and reduce digester volume. “It is especially a problem at (pipe) elbows, where the velocity increases

Manure-powered generator reaches output milestone  -  Jul 13, 2008
Indiana Gazette,HOMER CITY - A little more than two years after it went into operation, Brookside Dairy's anaerobic digester - a system that generates electricity from cow

Local environmentalist promotes biogas as alternative to LPG  -  Jul 9, 2008
ABS CBN News,This situation has urged Ed Guevarra, an anti-global warming advocate, to introduce his innovative "biogas digester". Biogas can be produced through waste

Cross Country: Checking in on manure digesters and farmer ...  -  Jul 24, 2008
The Capital Times,The Statz Brothers dairy in Sun Prairie is nearing completion of a manure digester for their 1500-cow main dairy. Norm-E-Lane Farm at Chili in Clark County

Family farms find ways to save on fuel, fertilizer  -  Jul 24, 2008
Central Penn Business Journal,By Susan Wolf Lancaster County farmer Luke Brubaker holds an odor-free, nutrient-rich end product created using an anaerobic manure digester at Brubaker

Biogas project advances after $7 million bond sale  -  Jul 28, 2008
KCAU,The biogas project will use an anaerobic digester to convert animal waste into methane gas that will help fuel the plant's existing boilers.

DART Meeting Offers New Ideas for Dairy Farmers  -  Jul 25, 2008
Lancaster Farming,Setting the stage, Mike and Luke Brubaker hosted a tour of their latest farm innovation, a methane digester. The digester converts the farm's dairy manure

Getting the stink out  -  Jul 16, 2008
Hornell Evening Tribune,By Lynn Brennan The new digester at the Arkport Crowley plant will be 40- by 100-feet and should get rid of errant smells wafting over the village of

How yesterday's meal ends up on a farmer's field  -  Jul 12, 2008
Toronto Star,The liquids are sent on for chlorination before being piped out to the lake while the sludge is moved to a digester, which is like a big cooking vat.

USDA awards $6.9M for energy projects  -  Jul 22, 2008
United Press InternationalFor example, Bach Digester LLC in Dorchester, Wis., will get $800000 for an anaerobic digester on a dairy farm. The gas produced from the digester will be

USDA AWARDS $6.9 MILLION FOR RENEWABLE ENERGY AND ENERGY ...  -  Jul 22, 2008
USDA.gov (press release),For example, Bach Digester LLC in Dorchester, Wis., will receive $800000 in loans and grants to construct an anaerobic digester on a dairy farm.

Sludge plans under council spotlight  -  Jul 28, 2008
Kent News,Shepway council’s planning committee has scheduled time to review the application to build an anaerobic digester and recycling plant at their meeting on

Wisconsin Farmers to Share in USDA's Renewable Energy Funds  -  Jul 23, 2008
Wisconsin Ag Connection,For example, Bach Digester LLC in Dorchester will receive $800000 in loans and grants to construct an anaerobic digester on a dairy farm.

Weekly Digest  -  Jul 19, 2008
Indiana Gazette,A little more than two years after it went into operation, Brookside Dairy's anaerobic digester - a system that generates electricity from cow manure

Craves to host Farm Technology Days 2009  -  Jul 22, 2008
Beloit Daily News,The farm uses an anaerobic manure digester, which converts manure into electricity. The digester system generates enough electricity to run the farm and

Project Converts Cow Dung to Electricity  -  Jul 23, 2008
The Epoch Times,...(David Silverman/Getty Images) A large Ontario dairy farm is testing out a massive “digester� that will turn cow manure and organic waste into enough

Lake weeds and algae: mixed greens for the grid?  -  Jul 20, 2008
BurlingtonFreePress.com,They might yet redeem themselves this summer, chopped and sloppy, in the belly of an electricity-producing methane digester in Bridport.

Ohmic heater treats waste  -  Jul 14, 2008
The Engineer,...'There is not really a way of getting category two animal by-products into anaerobic digester processors at the moment — it is something that is allowed

Megadairy hearing  -  Jul 16, 2008
Galena Gazette,The Jo Daviess County Board voted last week that the Illinois Department of Agriculture should hold a hearing about the digester.

Wastewater plant in need of repair  -  Jul 15, 2008
Seward County Independent,The city approved improvements to the digester in 1996 and 2002. "The facilities have definite aging problems," Condon told the council.

Skeletal Remains Found At Stickney Plant  -  Jul 25, 2008
CBS2 Chicago,...isolated area" and appeared to have been there "a long time," Horist said, noting the body was located near a building housing a waste digester.

Biofuel source needs legislative attention  -  Jul 18, 2008
Chicago Daily Herald,Simply put, the farmer installs an anaerobic digester and a biogas powered electric generator. The digester generates, among other things, a biogas which is

On the farm, a back-end solution to an energy crisis  -  Jul 21, 2008
Globe and Mail,After being run through the digester, the leftover liquid will be used as fertilizer, reducing the farm's need to buy plant nutrients on the open market,




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