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December 2006
Buried drums toxic threat
Cincinnati.com - Cincinnati,OH,USA
... The barrels that had been left alone to rust and seep underground for 20 years were suddenly considered an “emergency.”. ... The property is hidden from the road ...
Trash Collection Woes Plague City
My Fox Colorado.com - Denver,CO,USA
Even as residents in Fort Collins dig themselves out of the snow, people find themselves buried with household trash and recycling. ...
From a landfill to a public park A mountain of trash will be ...
Sarasota Herald-Tribune - Sarasota,FL,USA
... They want the panels hidden from view and away from the neighborhoods ... Rothenbach Park has 54 underground methane wells all attached to a vacuum pump that sucks
Slowing a tide of pollutants
ktla 5 - Los Angeles,CA,USA
... excrement. That's where the "honey vac" comes in, scooping up 36 tons a day that goes to a "methane digester" at a regional utility.
Energy from garbage
Standard - Nairobi,Kenya
... recycling waste to generate power. This involves the installation of a machine known as the biogas digester. Biogas is produced when ..
Machines get go-ahead in bid to cut waste
Portsmouth News - Portsmouth,England,UK
... They will each take a food digester home and try it out to test how easy it is to use, how smelly, how much it reduces rubbish put in the dustbin and what the
Pee-cycling
New Scientist (subscription) - UK
... Maybe you even irrigate the garden with your bath water ... with solid waste ("black water"), "grey water" from household sinks and baths, and sometimes rainwater. ...
New service gets down to business
Cranbourne News - Pakenham,Victoria,Australia... months. The building features water conservation measures, including large rainwater tanks for toilet flushing and garden watering. Mr ...
Cow Power grows in county
Franklin County Courier - Enosburg,VT,USA
... Albans, owned by Dave Montagne, will also begin producing electricity with a manure digester system, making Franklin County home to three of the state's cow ...
14 firms fight over manure
The Capital Times - Madison,WI,USA
... and storage a year ago, but more work was needed to see what else could be done as alternatives to spreading, including setting up a manure digester to help ...
You can earn carbon credits from livestock
Brownfield - Jefferson City,MO,USA
by Bob Meyer. Yet another reason for livestock producers to consider a methane digester. Besides the digester’s ability to generate ...
Govt to resume wastewater megaplant project
BNamericas - Santiago,Chile
... to treat wastewater in Mexico valley, ecology research institute Inaine ... and if followed, will ensure against leakages and underground contamination, national ...
QuestAir Installs Methane Recovery System at Michigan Dairy Farm
CCNMatthews (press release) - Toronto,ON,Canada... energy projects in the agricultural sector, as part of a plant that generates pipeline-grade methane as well as electrical power from anaerobic digester gas.
20-year stench continues to plague Batang Berjuntai folk
New Straits Times - Persekutuan,Malaysia
KUALA LUMPUR: For 20 years, the people of Batang Berjuntai have lived with the nauseating stench from a garbage dump located only 500m from their doorsteps.
Not all of family wants to sell land
Daily Iberian - New Iberia,LA,USA
... and mother — Susan, Mary-Catherine and Delores — do not want to sell the property, where officials propose placing the Bedminster “digester” and plant ...
Tapping 'cow power'
Toledo Blade - Toledo,OH,USA
... The caveat is this: Use of bio-digester technology to convert animal and other agricultural waste into "bio-gas" that in turn would be used to generate
Group envisions future use for cow waste
Toledo Blade - Toledo,OH,USA
... Randy Gardner (R., Bowling Green) yesterday announced the formation of an ag-energy task force that will investigate how bio-digester technology might be used ...
Alternative energy subsidies skew market
News-Times - Forest Grove,OR,USA
... Companies involved in methane digester projects, such as Portland General Electric, have decided they cannot fund these projects on their own in the future.
New garbage cans tested at Dimond
Montclarion - Montclair,CA,USA
... Being underground, the can's larger storage capacity is hidden and the garbage stays cooler, slowing waste decomposition and reducing smells.
November 2006
Is Renewable Natural Gas Plant More Than Pipedream
Bloomberg - USA
... These bonds will finance Microgy Holdings' construction of ``multi-digester biogas production and gas conditioning facilities'' in four locations in Texas ...
Lots of options for alternative energy
The Caledonia Argus (subscription) - Caledonia,MN,USA
... That can be reduced to 200 cows using an Andigen methane digester, speaker Mark Riemer said later. The cost per animal is higher with this option, he said. ...
Landfill generator may ease power crunch
Pacific Coast Business Times - Santa Barbara,CA,USA
... gives the Tajiguas facility the chance to increase the amount of electricity it sells ... farms in Tehachapi and Mojave, and one went to a geothermal facility in ...
UCD students turn garbage into 200 tons of nutrient rich compost a ...
Davis Enterprise - Davis,CA,USA
... I feel it’s symbolic to the re-creation of life. ... After the food scrap heaps reach a certain height, about two or three feet tall, they are turned every three
Toilet tied to tale of Dead Sea Scrolls
MSNBC - USA
... So what do ancient potty practices have to do with the mystery of Qumran? Although the findings of Zias and Tabor may not be a smoking ...
dairies to sell manure for energy
Modesto Bee - Modesto,CA,USA
... a managing partner in Bar 20, said he will need to modify his dairy, which will have 9,000 cows about a year from now, to suit the digester installation. ...
Delaware Landfills Produce Green Power
Business Wire (press release) - San Francisco,CA,USA
... Energy (NYSE: CEG), is a leading competitive supplier of electricity, natural gas and ... record investing in wind, solar, biomass, hydro and geothermal power, and .
Underground comfort spot gone but still not forgotten Scranton Times-Tribune - PA, USA... station in the country. The comfort station was actually built underground, a fete that took considerable skill. Mr. Fletcher was
Water company says sorry
Bridlington Free Press - Bridlington,England,UK
A COMMUNITY garden will be built in Bridlington after the project won ... to sea, there is a short outflow pipe, however, which prevents rainwater from overfilling
Underground treatment plant a first in Ireland
Water Technology Online - Latham,NY,USA... NORTHERN IRELAND – The Northern Ireland Department for Regional Development recently opened an 18 million pound ($34 million US) underground water treatment ...
AngloGold Ashanti Donates Oil Palm and Corn Mill Processing ...
Accra Daily Mail - Accra,Ghana
... The cutting of the tape for the commissioning of the plant which included a boiler and a digester was done by Mrs. Marilize Kruger, Anglogold Ashanti
Garbage disposal: A model for Mangalore
Mangalorean.com - Mangalore,India
... Mailhem Engineers. Similar to biogas plants elsewhere, this plant has at the core a digester into which the garbage is loaded.
Grass class at county soil/water
Auburn Citizen - Auburn,NY,USA
... Not only does it use a methane digester to create electricity, but it plans, in the future, to produce its own bio diesel fuel. ...
Sale ban for drips
Melbourne Herald Sun - Australia
... Included in the scheme is a $1000 cash rebate for new rainwater tanks connected to laundries ... well as a 5000-litre tank so he could re-use water on his garden. ...
Odor on board? Put Gamazyme in pipes
Megayacht & Superyacht News - Fort Lauderdale,FL,USA... Gamazyme Digester is a life-saver for an engineer who needs to keep the dirty water flowing and cannot afford a breakdown with owners or charter guests aboard. ...
Intrepid Biogas Plant Begins Producing New Revenue Stream
Market Wire (press release) - USA
The pilot used Organix's patented FibeRite™ process which takes dairy solids (fiber) from an anaerobic digester and converts it into a high-value peat moss
Cow power generator
Quad City Times - Davenport,IA,USA... The belt carries the manure to an anaerobic — meaning oxygen-free — digester, a structure similar to a covered swimming pool. ...
Manure digester will power Iowa homes
Fort Dodge Messenger - Fort Dodge,IA,USA
By KRISTIN GREINER- Farm News staff. Goldberg said this technology should work well in Iowa. It utilizes a biogas regional anaerobic digester (BRAD).
Septic woes plague homes
Santa Maria Times - Santa Maria,CA,USA
By Randi Block/Staff Writer. Beneath nearly half of the neatly manicured lawns in the New Dawn subdivision in western Nipomo lurks ...
Avadi to get underground sewerage system
Hindu - Chennai,India
AMENITIES FOR SUBURBS: Niranjan Mardi, Commissioner of Municipal Administration (left), discussing with officials plans for the underground drainage network ...
Broward May Replenish Underground Water Supply With Treated Sewage
3--Under pressure to accommodate growth without drawing water from the Everglades, Broward County is considering a plan to replenish underground sources of drinking water by discharging treated sewage into canals
October 2006
Organix to Launch First Peat Moss Replacement "Bog"
Market Wire (press release) - USA
... The pilot used the Company's patented FibeRite™ process which takes dairy solids (fiber) from an anaerobic digester and converts it into a high value, peat ...
When kitchen waste isn't wasted
San Francisco Chronicle - CA, USA
... Eight tons a week of everything that comes back on plates or is rejected by the kitchen will be sent to a state-of-the-art digester at UC Davis, where it will ...
Journal-Advocate community editor
Journal-Advocate - Sterling,CO,USA
... she said, citing the ethanol, biodiesel and wind energy already being produced in eastern Colorado, as well as plans for a new methane digester to produce and ...
Cow power energizes Vermont college campus
BurlingtonFreePress.com - Burlington,VT,USA
... The belt carries the manure to an anaerobic -- oxygen-free -- digester, a 70-by-100-foot structure similar to a covered swimming pool. ...
Local farm leading way for green power
Addison County Independent - Middlebury,VT,USA
MIDDLEBURY — The Foster Brothers Farm in Middlebury has used anaerobic digester technology to turn cow manure into electricity for more than two decades. ...
Sunflower sees growth in energy projects
The Wichita Eagle - Wichita,KS,USA
... plants as a feedstock for the biodiesel plant, and it will use manure and wastewater from nearby dairy operations in an anaerobic digester to produce methane
UK tops Europe's league of wasters
ic Wales - United Kingdom
... us in Wales leave chargers plugged in after the appliance is charged ... The report was commissioned by the Energy Saving Trust, the independent consumer advisory
Underground waste system for Wembley
MRW - London,MRW,UK
By Andrea Height. Wembley is to be the home of the UK’s first automated waste collection system from Envac, provider of underground waste network systems.
Muskegon County dairy farm's manure to be turned into energy
Kansas.com - KS,USA... The school's Michigan Alternative Renewable Energy Center originally had planned to install its bio-digester demonstration project at Country Dairy near New Era ...
Factory farm signs on to get manure power
Muskegon Chronicle - Muskegon,MI,USA
... Michigan Alternative & Renewable Energy Center's $1 million state grant to develop a manure-to-electricity facility with European bio-digester technology will ...
USDA, King County celebrate partnership to design Enumclaw Plateau ...
King County (press release) - Seattle,WA,USA... The focal point of the collection system is a manure "digester" that converts methane gas from cow manure into electricity.
What you don't eat will heat your home
ZDNet - USA... The technology, called an "anaerobic phased solids digester," has been licensed from the university and adapted for commercial use by Onsite Power Systems Inc. ...
Rainwater collection: Every little bit helps
Austin American-Statesman (subscription) - Austin,TX,USA... a series of aqueducts that transport rainwater to huge cisterns and storage tanks. The City of Austin operates a demonstration site at Zilker Botanical Garden
Project to harness greywater
Courier Mail - Australia
... would be used for toilet flushing, garden watering and other exterior uses. Houses in the booming area will also be fitted with mandatory rainwater tanks which
Cooking grease to help purify wastewater
Inside Bay Area - Oakland,CA,USA
... which began last September, will create a receiving dock for trucks to unload 3,000 gallons of grease a day into the facility's existing solid-waste digester. ...
Cheese plant will put waste to work
Sharon Herald - Sharon,PA,USA... last week their company was one of 27 statewide to get a piece of a $5.1 million pie that will help fund the construction of an anaerobic digester and also ...
September 2006
Authorities dig up leaking underground storage tanks
New Brunswick Home News Tribune - New Brunswick,NJ,USA PERTH AMBOY — The state Department of Environmental Protection is digging up leaking underground storage tanks and the soil around it in a common area behind ...
New mandate boosts protection of underground drinking water
Lufkin Daily News - Lufkin,TX,USA
By CHRISTINE S. DIAMOND. The water you drink, if contaminated by animal waste or free-running sewage, could make you sick — as ...
Big and expensive, or small and cheap?
Peninsula News Review - Saanich,British Columbia,Canada
... The sludge collected from the water treatment phase goes into an anaerobic digester, where oxygen-free bacteria are slow heated to sterilize the material and ...
New Energy Source for Farm
WNEP-TV - Scranton,PA,USA
... Their dream for cleaner energy is coming true with the help of an anaerobic digester. "A digester is basically an extension of a cow's stomach.
Turning Trash Into Power
Ivanhoe Broadcast News - Winter Park,FL,USA
... home. Trash could soon be powering your home. A new digester can transform it into energy. It uses ... and slow. But not this digester.
Company seeking to build trash port is trying new type of venture
Virginian Pilot - Norfolk,VA,USA
... trash would be burned and the resulting steam and electricity sold to ... events: the California energy crisis, in which the company's geothermal plants suffered ...
Take a trip inside a green building
Times Herald-Record - Middletown,NY,USA
... Cragsmoor. It is generally open to the public, and is an LEED-rated, wind-powered, passive solar, earth-sheltered structure. Designed ...
What's next for BioTown?
Journal and Courier - Lafayette,IN,USA
... board president Charlie Van Voorst said the town is in the process of purchasing property for the installation of a gasifier and an anaerobic digester to turn
San Francisco: Forget Flowers, Bring Doggie-Poop Bags!
National Ledger - Apache Junction,AZ,USA
... So, San Francisco’s officials are going to try an experiment whereby dog droppings are tossed into a methane digester for creating methane gas. ...
’Residents delight as waste plant is rejected
Offaly Independent - Tullamore,Ireland
Residents in Ballyfore have expressed delight at the news that a proposed anaerobic digester planned for the area has been refused planning permission by An ...
Dung 'digester' fuels farmhouse
BBC News - UK
... the building. The "digester" has been funded by a Scottish Executive pollution control pilot scheme in south west Scotland. Farmer ...
Urban sprawl leaves its mark on city waters
Buffalo News - NY, United States
... and other suburban developments that are eventually sent to the Buffalo treatment plant through the Scajaquada tunnel. The Scajaquada's underground journey is ...
City spends millions on sewers
Richmond Times Dispatch - Richmond,VA,USA
... which will feed rain and sewage mixes into the double-barreled tunnel two 66 ... The city will also install about a dozen new regulators -- underground basins that ...
Gas from manure: Big plant to open
ZDNet - USA
... At the Five Star Dairy in Elk Mound, Wis., which has a Microgy digester, the farm takes the leftover grass and solid bits from gas production, which doesn't Treating water with just the sun and gravity
INQ7.net - Philippines... of this city is showing that a treatment plant for wastewater could be devoid of that industrial look, relying only on the sun and gravity to function to its
Clemson research cleans up with edible oil
PhysOrg.com - Evergreen,VA,USA
... trap and destroy contaminants underground.". SRNL Laboratory Director Todd Wright of Washington Savannah River Company said collaborative research that combines ...
Officials consider biodiesel plant
Marysville Advocate - Marysville,KS,USA... The diagram is from the E3 Internet site www.e3biofuels.com. — an ethanol plant powered 90-100 percent by biogas from the digester with natural gas up to 10 ...
Weber to join Harrison Ethanol project
New Philadelphia Times Reporter - New Philadelphia,OH,USA
... The facility will house 10,000 beef cattle and 2,000 dairy cattle. It will use an anaerobic digester to process manure and urine into sellable products.
Cows here doing part in search for energy
Lancaster Newspapers - Lancaster,PA,USA... by 2025. Brubaker Farms in 2007 will install an anaerobic complete mix digester that will produce energy from cow manure. The farm ...
Fuel Your Car With Cow Hockey?
KETV.com - Omaha,NE,USA
... The manure is pumped into digester tanks, where the contents are kept at 99 degrees Fahrenheit and kept away from sunlight and oxygen. .
—The Use of Ethanol Worth the Effort?
Wheeling Intelligencer - Wheeling,WV,USA... The animals will be contained in barns at all times and their waste will be processed by an “anaerobic digester,” which will convert the waste into liquid ...
Pac-Man-like bacteria scour grease from sewers Indianapolis Star - United States... Yum! has more than 34,000 outlets, including Pizza Hut, KFC and Taco Bell. The Enzyme Magic Grease & Waste Digester sold to Yum! ...
Enzyme mix cleans sewers of grease glob
Fort Wayne Journal Gazette - Fort Wayne,IN,USA... including Pizza Hut, KFC and Taco Bell. The Enzyme Magic Grease & Waste Digester sold to Yum! restaurants is the same product keeping ...
Making money from manure
Twin Falls Times-News - Twin Falls,ID,USA... officials. Intrepid Technology and Resources Inc., is expanding its methane digester at Whitesides Dairy northeast of Rupert. Rep.
Empowering Cow Manure
Syracuse Post Standard - Syracuse,NY,USA... The $800,000 project broke ground a year ago near the campus' dairy complex, where the milking cows' manure will be gathered and fed into the digester. ...
Manure-to-methane plant to power 5,000 homes
IdahoStatesman.com - ID,USA
... is adding an additional eight digester tanks to handle manure from 6,500 cows at Whitesides Dairy near Rupert in south-central Idaho. .
August 2006
Sewer plant smells plague Pacificans
Pacifica Tribune - Pacifica,CA,USA
... The only ATAD (Autothermal Thermophilic Aerobic Digester) sewer plant in California, Pacifica's project has been written up in trade journals and continues to
Going to San Francisco? Forget Flowers, Bring Dog-Poop Scoopers!
Wizbang - Washington,DC,USA
... So, San Francisco officials are going to try an experiment whereby dog droppings are tossed into a methane digester for creating methane gas. ...
BioTown Conducts Tests to Produce Electricity From Organic Waste
Inside INdiana Business (press release) - Indianapolis,IN,USA
... The BioTownTM Technology Suite is composed of three complementary systems: an anaerobic digester, a gasifier and fast pyrolysis
Wastewater treatment plant aims to cut down emissions
Terre Haute Tribune Star - Terre Haute,IN,USA... Half the plant’s digester system has been modified, changing the previous anaerobic process, which created the two gases, to the aerobic process, which will ...
King County wins grant to plan manure digester
King County (press release) - Seattle,WA,USA
... The heart of any system is a manure “digester” that converts methane gas from cow manure into electricity. The digester also ..
Kamen Pleased with Success of his Machine in BD Villages
Drishtipat - Brooklyn,NY,USA
... source. The biogas comes from manure processed through a bio-digester (in simple terms – a processor to facilitate fermentation ).
Ethanol a benefit if tradition is broken
Regina Leader-Post - Regina,Saskatchewan,Canada
... E3's plant will break down manure inside an anaerobic digester, a device in which bacteria attack the manure in the absence of oxygen, producing both methane ...
County: Yes to manure digester, no to more cows for Kreidermacher
Winona Daily News - Winona,MN,USA
The Winona County Board of Commissioners voted unanimously late Tuesday to approve Al Kreidermacher’s request to build a digester and additional barn for his ...
More than just manure: 'Cow power' network would convert waste ...
King County Journal - Bellevue,WA,USA
... has taken another step toward the creation of a "cow power" network thanks to a $93,900 federal grant that will be used to develop a manure digester on the ...
’Kreidermachers plan for 1,600-cow farm comes before county ...
Winona Daily News - Winona,MN,USA
... Al Kreidermacher, who owns Diamond K Feeds, wants to expand from 1,070 cows to 1,600 and build a manure digester to fix ongoing odor problems, and he applied ...
Making power from waste water gas. How is it done?
Hamilton Spectator - Ontario, Canada Digester gas is released from the solid matter removed from waste water during the treatment process. It's heated and mixed in large
Keeping Sewerage Separate
Scoop.co.nz (press release) - New Zealand... In this case, all household wastewater is held in an underground septic tank ... BRANZ Ltd delivers research, testing, consultancy and educational services. ...
Dairy's manure digester turns waste into energy
Blairsville Dispatch - PA, USA
... Energy Harvest Grant. The chief project component, a manure digester that extracts gas from the animal waste, cost $434,000. A power ...
Transcript of Agriculture Secretary Mike Johanns Releasing 4th ...
USDA.gov (press release) - Washington,DC,USA... One of the recipients, Amana Farms Inc., will receive a $500,000 grant and a $1 million loan guaranteed to install a digester system.
Royal Flush
Hawaii Business Magazine - Honolulu,HI,USA... A cesspool is an underground hole that stores untreated waste that slowly seeps ... amount of savings, credit cards and frequent flyer miles to research and create ...
Methane digester converts dairy manure to electricity
Western Farm Press - USA... Morris explained how that can be done profitably with a methane digester in a talk before the recent forum of the California Chapter of the American Society of ...
USU Biofuel Technology Goes to Niger
KCPW - Salt Lake City,UT,USA... IBR) on a Niger ranch. The anaerobic digester system converts animal and organic waste into low-cost energy. While the IBR on the
Sewer flood misery may soon be a bad memory
ic Liverpool - Southport,England,UK
... will replace a temporary pumping station installed on the same site in 2001 and the majority of machinery, including a large tank, will be hidden underground. ...
’Focus on Energy: Milking It For All Its Worth
Wisbusiness.com - Madison,WI,USA
... An anaerobic digester system is an enclosed tank that excludes oxygen and through which manure is passed and broken down by naturally occurring bacteria ...
July
City Moving Forward on Sewer Clean Up
WISH - Indianapolis,IN,USA
... Mayor Peterson unveiled a $1.8 billion solution, but it will take 20 years to complete: a giant underground tunnel along Fall Creek and the White River that ..
Intrepid Producing Pipeline Quality Green Gas
Yahoo! News (press release) - USA
... That is particularly true of the Andigen/Utah State University team who developed the proprietary Induced Blanket Reactor digester technology that we selected ...
Dairy farm draws electricity from unlikely source
Pioneer Press - St. Paul,MN,USA
... From there, the manure goes to an anaerobic — meaning oxygen-free — digester, a 100-foot-by-70-foot structure similar to a covered swimming pool built by
Food digester scheme reveals 50% drop-out rate
letsrecycle.com - UK
... said those householder that were using their food waste digesters used them regularly – with 93% of those who said they were using their digester using them .
Otter Creek brewing green
Addison County Independent - Middlebury,VT,USA
... And the company may someday install a special digester to capture methane gas from the beer making process and convert that gas into electricity.
New York Times Discusses Microgy Projects in Manure-to-Energy ...
Yahoo! News (press release) - USA
... According to Agstar officials, "[At] least 70,000 dairy and swine farms are big enough to support a commercial digester and could collectively provide enough ...
California and Sweden Sign Agreement to Jointly Develop Biomethane ...
Auto Spectator - USA
... in the Kyoto accord. Biomethane is developed by heating up and breaking down biomaterials in a digester. Among other raw materials ...
Recycling & Waste world news
Recycling and Waste World - Salisbury,Wiltshire,UK
... opportunity to raise our concerns. "Why opt for an incinerator and not an anaerobic digester?” added Mr Dowen. "The only opportunity for ...
Touring California
Capital Press (subscription) - Salem,Oregon,USA
... production. They also saw the operation of an $800,000 methane digester, which produces electricity from the dairy’s 1,600 cows. ...
An energetic visit
Davis Enterprise - Davis,CA,USA
... The anaerobic phased solids digester was researched and tested in the lab for eight years and has proved to be more efficient and versatile than similar ...
Vt. Dairy Farm Harnesses Power of Cow Pies
San Jose Mercury News - CA, USA
... From there, the manure goes to an anaerobic - meaning oxygen-free - digester, a 100-foot-by-70-foot structure similar to a covered swimming pool built by ...
June 2006
Manure will power homes
Spooner Advocate - Spooner,WI,USA
BARRON-- Dairyland Power Cooperative, Microgy, Inc., and Norswiss Farms worked together to bring the third manure digester online in Wisconsin to help generate ...
Turbine exploration
Marshall Independent - Marshall,MN,USA
... Minnesota. Steger also visited the Minn-Wind Biodiesel Peaking Plant in Beaver Creek, along with the Methane Digester in Oshawa Township.
Manure separator works great for Deckers
Agri News - MN,USA
WESTGATE, Iowa -- The Deckers say installing a manure separator is the piece of the puzzle that makes the digester on their Top Deck Holstein farm complete. ...
Ethanol on way
Tamworth Northern Daily Leader - Tamworth,New South Wales,Australia
... Instead of taking the used grain and producing nutritious stockfeed supplements, the plant will use anaerobic digester technology that will process about ...
Waste of a nation
Inside Bay Area - Oakland,CA,USA
... generation plant. An East Bay water utility tosses chicken droppings and table scraps into a digester to produce methane. Unused ...
On Vermont dairy farm, energy happens
WCAX - Burlington,VT,USA
... From there the manure goes to an anaerobic _ meaning oxygen-free _ digester, a 100-foot-by-70-foot structure similar to a covered swimming pool. ...
Biological sources fuel energy plans in Reynolds
The Courier-Journal - Lafayette,IN,USA... It will include an anaerobic digester, a gasification plant and a fast pyrolysis unit, all capable of jointly producing natural gas, electricity and biodiesel ...
Farm manure digester:When brown equals green
Barron News-Shield - Barron,WI,USA... The 1,300-head farm commemorated its manure digester going online June 8 with a ribbon cutting ceremony and tours of the facility
The scoop on poop
CNNMoney.com - USA
... One Wisconsin dairy farmer, with 875 cows, has installed a methane digester that produces enough electricity to power about 600 homes, according to ...
Portsmouth company says cows produce ultimate natural gas
The Union Leader - Manchester,NH,USA... catch on. Environmental Power estimates that more than 60 companies are offering anaerobic digester systems in the US today. Microgy ..
Americans making progress on energy
Seattle Post Intelligencer - USA
... A dairy at Outlook in Yakima County is building a digester to convert cow manure into products including methane to power electricity generators. ... ...
Federal officials tour local energy facilities
Dunn County News - Menomonie,WI,USA
... Energy Cooperative (WWREC), Microgy, Dairyland Power and Dunn Energy Cooperative recently hosted several federal officials at the methane digester near Elk ...
Gitarama School Finds Creative Energy Solution
AllAfrica.com - Washington,USA
... Pipes connect toilets to the main digester, the largest pit. ... "I feel I learned a great deal building that digester," Twizere says. ...
The Mulch Munch
Exclaim! - Canada
... The digester (like a water tower without stilts) maintains the delicate and chemically specific environment these microbes need to survive; in 34 degree ...
Intrepid to Begin Clean Green Gas Production
Market Wire (press release) - USA
... The equipment is unique in that it can process a smaller gas stream from the existing two digester array, as well as the full ten digester array that is ...
Sorg & Associates Behind New DC Digester Tanks
Interior Design (subscription) - New York,NY,USA
The shore of the Anacostia River now hosts eight giant egg-shaped digester tanks, a $311 million project designed by architecture firm Sorg & Associates. ...
Caldwell Farmer Wants to Put Cow Waste to Use
New West - Missoula,MT,USA
... Bernie Teunissen, owner of Beranna Dairy, is making power out of animal waste and food waste using an anaerobic digester. It sounds ...
Cow Power May Come To Treasure Valley
KBCI - Boise,ID,USA
... owner of Beranna Dairy, is teaming up with CKTV1, led by Eagle resident Sot Chimanos, to create power out of animal and food waste using an anaerobic digester. ...
An Electric Odor
KELOLAND TV - Sioux Falls,SD,USA
... electricity. Here's how it works: The manure is collected and put into this building, called the digester, where it sits for 30 days. ..
May 2006
New SRC system produces cooking gas from waste water
Jamaica Observer - Kingston,Jamaica
... In the meantime, Brown said the bio-digester septic tank, used for single households and housing development, was a prototype of the anaerobic system. ...
Stench In Steubenville
WTOV9.com - Steubenville,OH,USA
... Murphy described how the filter press works, "you take that sludge in the digester you add some polymers and you're taking all the water out and it ...
Dairyland Power Invests in Landfill Gas-to-Energy Plants
Yahoo! News (press release) - USA
... Minnesota. In addition, Dairyland operates three "cow power" manure digester facilities at dairy farms in its service territory. ...
Western Washington University to harness cow power
Seattle Post Intelligencer - USA
... An anaerobic digester on Darryl Vander Haak's dairy farm in Lynden, Wash., processes manure from about 1,000 cows into electricity to sell to Puget Sound Energy ...
Go, methane, go!
ProgressiveU.org - San Mateo,CA,USA
... released into the atmosphere by covering up those landfills, not letting cow manure sit around, and stuffing everything into a digester, thereby creating ...
US dairy farm manure begins to power homes
Malaysia Star - Malaysia
... The first methane digester was built in 1859, at a leper colony in India. ... Last year Haubenschild, who financed his own digester, got about $10,000 from CCX. ...
Farm hopes "cow power" no hot air
Xinhua - China
... According to CEO Gao Zhong, an anaerobic digester works to convert solid manure into methane gas, which can then be used to make electricity.
Reader's letter: Find creative ways to save water
Hi-Desert Star - Yucca Valley,CA,USA
... technology out there to treat our waste, “waste to energy plants.” You squeeze out the water from the solids, put it in a bacteria digester and you have ...
Burning garbage? What for?
Toronto Star - Ontario, Canada
... it? It amounts to the same thing. Put into an anaerobic digester, organic material produces methane and high-quality soil. (It's ...
Creek in crisis
Pittsburgh Post Gazette - Pittsburgh,PA,USA
... About a mile northeast of town, deep in Salem farm country, the group hopes to build a "biofuel digester" tank system like those used in Europe and Asia. ...
DNR promotes digesters to convert livestock, processing waste into ...
TMCnet - USA
... The fertilizer from a digester is returned to farms in a nitrogen-rich liquid, with 90 percent of the odor removed, and a phosphorous-rich solid. ...
Houston County looks into energy options
Winona Daily News - Winona,MN,USA
... Ralph Rottier, a consultant for Andigen LC, which builds digester systems, said it will work with herds as small as 250 animals. ...
Student's art wins energy contest
Beloit Daily News - Beloit,WI,USA
This time, her drawing of a cow reading a newspaper while sitting on an anaerobic digester has given her top honors at a contest to promote alternative energy ...
Plan: Turn waste into electricity
Pahrump Valley Times - Pahrump,NV,USA
... of Las Vegas to operate an anaerobic digester, turning the dairy's cow flops into kilowatts and cutting down on odors and flies in the process. ...
Outlook dairy constructing anaerobic digester
Yakima Herald-Republic - Yakima,WA,USA
By MAI HOANG. George DeRuyter & Sons Dairy of Outlook has begun construction on the state's second anaerobic digester. An anaerobic ...
Machine turns cow manure into a renewable resource
Salem Statesman Journal - Salem,OR,USA
... The plant, called a methane digester, uses methane from cow manure to produce power. ... Rosa hopes to have the digester completed by the end of 2007. ...
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’Fayettevilles largest-ever public works project well underway
The Citizen.com - Fayetteville,GE,USA
... dirt at the groundbreaking only weeks ago at the First Manassas Mile facility has quickly become the beginnings of the plant’s third aerobic digester. ...
National Challenge Completes Bruce Eco-Industrial Park Anaerobic ...
Canada NewsWire (press release) - Canada
... The study examined the establishment of a transfer station to manage organic residuals, and a centralized anaerobic digester that would co-process those ...
21st-century Energy: Buying locally
Seattle Post Intelligencer - USA
... Farming program. Its research efforts include work on an anaerobic digester to produce methane and usable byproducts from manure. In ...
Oregon Dairies Turn Animal Waste Into A Natural Resource
MedfordNews.com - Medford,OR,USA
... "It's a matter of how you use the manure and where you put it. We choose to put it where it is useful, and that is a methane digester on our farm.". ...
CANNING COMPLETE SECOND PHASE OF THORNLEY DIGESTER.
Hub 4 (press release) - Sheffield,South Yorkshire,UK
Opened in January 2002, the ciVic® Municipal Waste Aerobic Digester based at Thornley, County Durham was built as a pilot project. ...
Energy: From Poop To Power
Forbes - USA
... Tejwani: The digester basically looks like a silo. ... Initially to start the digester, you might need it, just to heat the tank so the process gets going. ...
Making art from recycling
Edmonton Sun - Alberta, Canada
... equipment.". In order for a methane-digester system to work, Yee points out there must be a separate collection site for the animal waste. ...
A final test of mind, spirit - and car
Philadelphia Inquirer - Philadelphia,PA,USA
... Cow dung, when placed in a large container called a digester, he said, emits gases that can be captured and chemically "scrubbed" to produce natural gas, also ...
It Can Pay to Be Green
Newsweek - USA
... Several years ago, Haubenschild installed a "methane digester" that uses manure as fuel and generates enough electricity to power the 1,000-acre farm and 70 ...
'Mooving' forward in Juneau County
Juneau County Star-Times - Mauston,WI,USA
... said his system, a digester that is similar to a municipal sewage treatment plant, will break down the components quickly and will be readily available for ...
April 2006
Glanbia works out the bugs on treatment plant
Twin Falls Times-News - Twin Falls,ID,USA
... To treat the wastewater, engineers designed a digester that relies on biological processes to remove the odor-causing organic solids and the pathogens, which ...
Students look beyond BioTown
Monticello Herald Journal - Monticello,IN,USA
... For agriculture they looked at diversifying crops for better yields, and what goes into the proposed digester and ethanol plants at Reynolds. ...
Purdue students unveil BioTown study results
Monticello Herald Journal - Monticello,IN,USA
... A farmer can use the wet distillers for cattle feed and the solubles can be used in a biogas plant, or an anaerobic digester, to replace natural gas. ...
Export leader tells new agri graduates to go into business
Sun.Star - Philippines
... He cited the example of the biogas digester for rural households, which has been in existence since the first oil crisis of 1973 and was never commercialized. ...
March 2006
Environmental Power Corp. inks new multi-digester manure-to-gas ...
Boston Mass High Tech - MA, USA
... both based in Portsmouth, NH -- have signed agreements for the construction and operation of a multi-digester biogas production and gas conditioning ...
Experts explore its energy potential of pet poop
Scripps Howard News Service - Washington,DC,USA
... The waste will be collected and tossed into a contraption called a methane digester, which is little more than a tank in which bacteria chew on poo for about ...
February 2006
rural mn energy board
Agri News - MN,USA
... for over 200 megawatts of small, community-based, wind projects including wind grants with similar incentives for solar and methane digester projects, said ...
Dairy farmers find money in manure
MSNBC - USA
... Boyke, who has 1,300 cows on his Vir-Clar Farm near Fond du Lac, said he gets two to three times the energy he needs with an anaerobic digester, which uses ...
Washington State Releases Plan to Repair Spokane River, Lake
Environment News Service - USA
... One of five sewage treatment plants along the Spokane River that ... tools" in the "toolbox" include improved wastewater treatment technology, non-point ...
Toss Out the New Orleans "Toxic Soup" Myth
Town Hall - Washington,DC,USA
... the flood waters in various ways, such as when over 500 sewage plants were ... to a study published in the journal Environmental Science and Technology in October. ...
January 2006
~~~~Waste woes plague Delta Junction
Fairbanks Daily News-Miner - Fairbanks,AK,USA
By JANET BOYER. Sewage has become a serious problem for the city of Delta Junction as the septage ponds at the area's new landfill ...
Sewer backups plague older lines
Eudora News - Eudora,KS,USA
Last week, a sewer line backup caused damage to several apartments in the area of 11th and Pine Streets. Although the city quickly ...
Hydroxyl cleans up
Oak Bay News - Oak Bay,British Columbia,Canada
... Hydroxyl's technology uses poly-urethane "honeycombs" lined with live bacteria to purify sewage, dish water and bath water. ...
From sewage sludge to electricity
ABC Regional Online - Australia
... researching the potential to produce electricity from sewage treatment waste ... use and Energy Production Project Study will develop existing technology to enable ...
Biotech firm aids swimmer safety
ic Wales - United Kingdom
... diagnostic test to detect the presence of human sewage in seawater is being pioneered by Cardiff-based biotech company Molecular Light Technology (MLT) Research ...
Cash Cows: Digesting More Energy
WQOW - Eau Claire,WI,USA
... A digester in Elk Mound that opened last year turns cow manure into methane. ... Unlike sun or wind power, the digester's always there.
Last cleaned May 2006
Article by Cornell University on closed environment agriculture:
http://www.cornellcea.com/about_CEA.htm
A letter about organic hydroponics:
Melvin Landers of Integrated Agrisystems, Solutions for the growing World
presents a treatment system developed in Brazil which can completely decompose
manure. Even though the systems can also be used on large farms, Melvin Landers
sees it especially as a solution for small farms. This system looks highly
interesting but it would be valuable if we could get more detailed information
on the cost (especially for small farms) and on experimental measurements
performed with it (if possible using a mass balance approach). We would also
appreciate if more information (drawings, etc) can be made available for the
participants.
As a result of the efforts of Dr.Raul Martins of Sao Paulo and his partner Dr.
Jose Karam of Porto Alegre, to develop an organic hydroponic industry for poor
farmers in Brazil, they developed a six chamber biodigester that uses both
aerobic and anaerobic organisms in the various stages of the system to
completely decompose manure into biogas, water, mineral salts and soluble
humus. This new generation of digesters can be used to treat the manure from
any size of operation, from 50 hens(cheaply) to 50,000 hogs or more. The
resultant nutrient solution (Bio-fertilizer) has no ability to support
microbial life(there are no Pathogens). It has a BOD of zero and a pH of 6.9 to
7.1. The soluble humus acts as a buffering agent to allow hydroponic plants(or
any others) to thrive despite the neutral pH and as a chelating agent,
regulating the release of nutrients to prevent deficiencies and toxicity. The
ability of humus to hold onto nutrients would also reduce leaching. Full
strength, the fertilizer can be applied before planting, as a side dressing or
as a foliar spray. It can be used on pasture, row crops, orchards or produce
with no of pollution or disease risk. The system works well with any manure
as long as there is a 2:1 ratio of water to solids in the mixing tank. In small
systems, using plastic barrels all of the same size, it takes 60 days to work.
In large systems with properly sized chambers retention time is decreased
somewhat. This technology has the potential to shift the advantage to small
farms since it can yield both biogas and a non polluting fertilizer. Until
production can be shifted to small producers the multiple phase total digestion
system can also significantly decrease the risk from large operations as well.
Although large systems are expensive to build, the environmental costs of not
building, would be much greater. These systems should be discontinued as soon
as possible, wherever possible. In situations
where rural agriculture is no longer viable, nutrients can be used in urban
hydroponic farms. But, this should not be seen as a desirable model where rural
farms still exist. Although manure treated with this system no longer poses
the same environmental threat that untreated manure does, it is still important
to transport the nutrients, from large operations to the rural areas where they
are needed. This can be accomplished with tank trucks or drums. The combined
value of the biogas and fertilizer might lessen the economic burden of doing
this. We will give drawings and needed information about our small plastic
barrel system, free of charge, to aid agencies who are willing to pass it on to
poor farmers. Large systems will have to be individually designed by Dr.
Martins. Sincerely Melvin Landers General Manager Integrated Agrisystems
Solutions for the growing World agrimel@yahoo.com