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BioHiTech Global partners up for effluent distribution

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Hydrocarbon Engineering,


BioHiTech Global, Inc. (BioHiTech), a green technology company that provides an innovative data driven solution for food waste disposal, announced that its subsidiary, BioHiTech America, has partnered with Natural Systems Utilities, Ridgewood Green RME and the Village of Ridgewood, NJ to test a process that will allow BioHiTech's Eco-Safe Digester to digest, tank, and deliver the effluent from its eco-safe digesters to anaerobic digestion (AD) facilities anywhere in the world.

BioHiTech's eco-safe digester utilises an aerobic digestion process to convert food waste to grey water, also referred to as effluent. Typically the effluent is discharged safely into the sewage system and individual wastewater treatment facilities treat it with other sanitary waste. This new process will tank the unit's effluent allowing for transportation to an anaerobic digestion plant where biogas can be captured and used to create renewable energy.

The eco-safe digester performs the hydrolysis stage of anaerobic digestion at the point of origin. Because the aerobic digestion process begins with the breakdown of solid organics to a liquid slurry, the effluent is easily pumped and transported, arriving at the AD facility in a ‘predigested’ condition allowing for efficient feedstock transfer and eliminating the need for costly processing at the AD facility.

"In a continual effort to offer our customers cost effective solutions for food waste disposal, we have developed a process for those who want their food waste delivered to anaerobic digesters so that it can be converted to clean energy," said Frank E. Celli, CEO of BioHiTech Global.

"Early trials to receive the material and feed it to the digester have proven successful," said Paul Knowles, Director of Technical Operations of Natural Systems Utilities. "We are working with BioHiTech to expand the process so that they can offer this solution to new and existing customers."

This new process is currently being tested at a high volume supermarket in New Jersey and transported to an anaerobic digestion facility operated by the Village of Ridgewood, NJ at its water pollution control facility. Ridgewood Green RME, owns a 20 000 gal./d liquid waste receiving facility and a 240 kW digester biogas power plant that is co-located at the anaerobic digestion facility. Natural Systems Utilities operates those components of the project owned by Ridgewood Green RME.


Adapted from press release by Francesca Brindle

Read the article online at: https://www.hydrocarbonengineering.com/clean-fuels/14012016/biohitech-america-partners-up-for-global-effluent-distribution-2154/

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