Tuesday, February 17, 2009

Anaerobic Digestion Plant Using Food Waste

A New electricity plant could be built in Doncaster to be powered by methane gas created from hundreds of tons of food waste which would be delivered every week.If built, it would take 45,000 tons of food waste every year, some from its own pet food production on site. Other waste would be collected from supermarkets and other outlets in the area.

That would be digested by micro-organisms in sealed chambers to produce methane gas which would in turn be burned to drive turbines to create electricity either for use on site or to be fed into the national grid.The Anaerobic digestion vessel would be 35 metres long, by 10 metres high, and a new steel framed building would also be needed for preparing the waste to be processed and the engines to burn the methane.

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