And he believes the cake can be used for the same farming application as the treated sludge, O’Meara said, though he has more research to do on the subject. Although he has not worked up a complete ...

CARBONDALE, Colorado – A rather pungent debate is under way here, as town sanitation officials ask themselves whether they should stick with sludge or convert to cake. The Carbondale sanitation ...

Through detailed analyses, Nesse found that several of the biogas digestate samples of processed food waste contained almost as much pharmaceutical residues as digestate of sewage sludge. "It was ...

In the best cases, wastewater treatment plants sequester about 90% of that phosphorus in “sludge” and decompose that sludge into something known as digestate.

Phosphorus, which today comes mostly from nonrenewable reserves of phosphate rock, typically winds up in municipal waste streams. In the best cases, wastewater treatment plants sequester about 90% of ...

Farmers are being reminded of recent updates to slurry, manure, sewage sludge and anaerobic digestate (AD) regulations. SAC consulting told The SF that these changes mean that there are a few ...

While the company does not currently handle any other AD digestate from plants processing food waste, it does handle around 36,000 tonnes a year of digestate produced from sewage sludge. A spokesman ...

In the best cases, wastewater treatment plants sequester about 90% of that phosphorus in “sludge” and decompose that sludge into something known as digestate. Engineers hope to establish a more ...