Applications

Anaerobic digestion can be applied at numerous facilities these include:

  • Waste water treatment (WWT) works (paper mills, industry)
  • Sewage treatment works
  • Farming consortiums
  • Industrial manufactures of organic products
  • Breweries, Distilleries
  • Food processing and manufacturing
  • Waste management facilities
  • Chemical and pharmaceutical industry

And there are a variety of suitable organic materials that can be used:

  • Sewage sludge and grease sludge
  • Liquid manure, solid effluent
  • Separately collected bio-waste from households
  • Bio-waste from slaughter houses, breweries and distilleries, fruit and wine press houses, dairies, the cellulose industry or sugar production
  • Secondary-growth raw materials, e.g. corn silage, non-food grains
  • Vegetable oils and animal fats
  • Vegetables, vegetation
  • Organic municipal solid waste (MSW)