In the past several years, a problem in the agricultural industry has been gaining increasing attention: chicken manure. As chicken farms have blown up in size, the amount of manure they produce has escalated to a nearly unmanageable volume. People are scrambling to find a …
Whether a rotary drum is being used as a dryer, kiln, cooler, or otherwise, it is often a key process component in a production setting. As a result, downtime for the rotary drum can have the potential to hold an entire operation on idle. For …
Biogas has been a popular topic of discussion lately, as the need for energy increases, and sources are being run dry. Sometimes referred to as swamp gas, landfill gas, or digester gas, biogas is generated from anaerobic digesters such as animal manure, sewage, and municipal …
Bay Business Journal Vol 17 #3 (June / July 2009) View / Download the article as a PDF Humans do it, animals do it, factories do it. Even cells do it. Producing waste is just one of those unavoidable evils – right up there with …