Biosolids Composting Articles & Analysis
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The Borough of Mechanicsburg, located in central Pennsylvania, was experiencing challenges in finding sufficient agricultural fields to continue the beneficial use of their anaerobically digested liquid wastewater treatment plant Class B biosolids. At the time, the only alternative available was dewatering and going to landfill, which is significantly more expensive. Due to ...
California Cental Valley composter utilizes the Managed Organic Recycling, Inc. Covered Aerated Static Pile (ASP) Composting System to meet Air Board regulations requireing greated than 90% capture of emissions (VOCs). System was developed to rapidly compost bisolids to meet PFRP (process to further reduce pathogens) and compost stability in under 10 days. Facility has increased throughput will ...
Biosolids Composting at Waste Water Reclamation Facility utilizing the MOR, Inc. Covered Aerated Static Pile (ASP) Composting System. Facility has eliminated disposal costs associated with land application and landfill by composting biosolids on site and producing at Class A STA approved soil amendment for sale ...
The use of St Marys Paper biosolids as a soil additive or growth cover was investigated. Biosolids were mixed with a commercial potting media in five vol/vol ratios and employed in a greenhouse study. The biosolids were found to improve Pinus banksiana seedling growth, a 50% biosolids:50% ProMix mixture yielding the tallest ...
BioCycle Magazine Article on Biosolids Composting at Central Valley Water Reclamation Facility in Salt Lake City, UT using Managed Organic Recycling, Inc.'s Covered Aerated Static Pile Composting System. Full scale operations started in February 2011. Other facility equipment includes AirFloor from Buildworks, temperature probes from ReoTemp, ...
Golf Association–specified sand was amended with dried turfgrass roots and either sphagnum peat moss (SPM), reed sedge peat (RSP), biosolid compost (BSC), or calcined clay (CC) at 0, 0.1, or 0.2 m3 m–3. ...
Utah Valley Daily Herald Article on the benifits on using micro-pore membrane compost covers when composting highly odorus material. In February of 2009 Utah Valley's North Sewer Distirict conducted a pilot study to determine the effectivness of mirco-pore membrane compost covers in reducing odors from biosolids (sewage sludge) ...
We assessed the potential for wood wastes (chipped cedar wood waste, sort-yard waste, hogfuel) and co-composts with shellfish waste or municipal biosolids to provide inorganic N and release phenolics and condensed tannins, compared with natural forest floor and mineral soil. ...
Composting is a successful method of recycling organic waste materials such as yard trimmings, municipal biosolids, animal manure and organic urban wastes into stabilised materials that could be used for bioremediation, erosion control, landscaping, and roadside vegetation. ...
An 11 hectares open-air windrow composting facility, privately owned and operated, has permitted sludge to be transformed into biosolids compost. Compost marketing success and excellent social acceptance of installation and process are encouraging initiatives and further improvements in production and compost ...
Oxygen uptake of biosolids compost was measured during both laboratory and full-scale studies. ...