Make COVID-19 Recovery Green Say Business Leaders
Renewables trade associations have added their voice today to the growing consensus that if society has learned anything from the COVID-19 experience, it must be that human life on this planet is fragile. Making the UK’s COVID-19 recovery green is essential from that point of view, due to the huge risks from climate change, but […]
Is My Waste Suitable for Anaerobic Digestion?
“Is my waste suitable for anaerobic digestion?”, is a frequent question we receive in our emails. It comes from those considering installing agricultural AD systems, and businesses that produce food waste especially. There are two immediate considerations for any answer, the first is to say that more or less any organic material can be anaerobically […]
Advantages and Disadvantages of Anaerobic Wastewater Treatment vs Aerobic
The principal advantages and disadvantages of anaerobic wastewater treatment when compared with the aerobic equivalent processes are listed, and then discussed below. Advantages of Anaerobic Treatment Less energy required Less biological sludge produced Lower nutrient demand Methane production: Providing potential energy source with possible revenue both from the sale of the energy, and benefit from […]
Vertical Long-Shaft Pump Will Blend Cow Slurry At AD Plant
Vertical long-shaft pumps have been around since the earliest days of sewer installation, however, never before did they run this long and deep for biogas plant pump company Landia. Read on to find out more about this case study and how this pump will blend cow manure slurry at an AD Plant in Northern Ireland. […]
Landfill Odour Due to Covid-19 – Operators Urged to Send Organic Waste to Biogas Plants
A rise in organic waste being landfilled due to the Covid-19 crisis is not only contrary to national waste policy, but it is likely to be the cause of a growing problem of UK landfill odour experienced in the last few days. Complaints have been rising in Fife for some time. Similar news is expected […]
China Recovers from COVID-19 with Chopper Pumps Order for Liquid Manure Application
Sponsor Landia has some good news as they announce a new order for Chopper Pumps for a liquid manure application as China recovers from COVID-19, and their Shanghai office re-opens. They just need to get their office heating and air conditioning working and all will be well! Read on to find out more! Press Release […]
Wastewater Treatment Sludge Mixing Improvements Raise Plant Efficiency
Wastewater Treatment Sludge Mixing Case Study: Landia the leading producer of specialist water treatment pumps, mixers, aeration systems and advanced processes, has drastically lowered sludge disposal costs and is saving valuable landfill space at a large WwTW in the US. In the words of the Superintendent of the Sewer Authority: “The Landia mixers have been […]
How to Cut Carbon Emissions? Assisting Biomethane Could Cut 1/3 Off Hardest
Wondering how to cut carbon emissions? New report says that assisting UK biomethane production could cut 1/3 off the carbon emission from the hardest to decarbonise sectors. Hopefully the UK, and other governments, are currently thinking hard on how to cut it! The new report says that assisting biomethane production could cut just under 1/3 […]
Define Anaerobic Digestion: 10 Top Definitions of AD – Listed
“Define Anaerobic Digestion”, said a student to me recently. No doubt because I discovered anaerobic digestion back in the 1990s via my background of environmental biochemistry originally, I quoted the original Wikipedia definition. That one is all about breaking down organic material without oxygen present (ref: 1) and is all about the chemistry involved. I thought […]
Landia Chopper Pump Chops Knives – Robust Pump Survives Knife Attack!
A Landia Chopper Pump when serviced recently was found to have been chopping on knives apparently left in waste-food. Chopper pumps are so named because a rotating “blade” and 3 fixed “knives” (scroll down to see illustration) at the pump casing entry point. These are positioned to chop through fibrous material (even cutting through rope […]
Anaerobic Digestion vs Landfill – Which is the Best?
Assessing the advantages of anaerobic digestion vs landfill as a means of disposing organic waste is an important step. Businesses need to know for sure that if they move from landfill to anaerobic digestion as the means of disposal of their waste there are not known issues which may prove a risk to the reputation of their […]
First WwTW Biogas Upgrading Plant Completed by Clarke Energy France
The City of Perpignan is the first in France to benefit from a Clarke Energy Biogas Upgrading Plant at their WwTW (Sewage Works or “STEP”). The plant will allow the city to make the most sustainable use of the biogas produced, through natural gas grid-injection of the renewable gas. The gas called biomethane is equivalent […]
