The anaerobic digestion of organic solid wastes
- Hartung (H.A.), Collingswood, NJ (United States)
Anaerobic digestion offers many advantages in the processing of organic solid wastes, using a closed system to convert the waste to combustible gas and a stabilized organic residue.Odors are contained while digestion removes their source and gas is collected for energy recovery as heat or electricity. The stabilized residue is less than the starting waste by the mass of gas produced, and it can be disposed of by land application, land filling, incineration or composting. The stimulation of digesters and the phenomenon of co-digestion are two ways the performance of anaerobic digesters can be enhanced. Data from farm digesters and municipal wastewater treatment plants illustrate the present venue of the process; laboratory studies of the anaerobic digestion of a variety of solid wastes show that the process can be applied to these materials as well. About two thirds of municipal solid waste is shown to be amenable to anaerobic digestion in a substrate from an active municipal sewage plant digester.
- OSTI ID:
- 287516
- Report Number(s):
- CONF-960345-; ISBN 0-7918-1227-8; TRN: IM9639%%104
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: 17. biennial conference of the Solid Waste Processing Division of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers and 4th North American waste-to-energy conference, Atlantic City, NJ (United States), 31 Mar - 3 Apr 1996; Other Information: PBD: 1996; Related Information: Is Part Of 17. biennial waste processing conference: Proceedings; PB: 496 p.
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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