CONSUMER concern about excessive food miles could help make digested sludge cake from local sewage treatment plants a more desirable source of crop nutrients than bagged fertiliser. As consumers and ...

Pipeline transport of digested wastewater sludge slurries is predicted to be of substantial economic benefit to treatment plant operation as compared with conventional practice of filtration and ...

Eleven dewatered sludge cakes collected from anaerobic digesters at different treatment plants were evaluated for the amount, type, and pattern of odorous gas production. All but one of the sludge ...

By returning nutrients recovered from wastewater to agricultural soils, sewage sludge helps close nutrient cycles and reduces ...

Purac has been undertaking a project with South West Water (SWW) to help the utility apply Hazards Analysis Critical Control Point (HACCP) to meet the Revised Sludge (Use in Agriculture) Regulations.

APPLYING digested sewage sludge prior to a second wheat crop can lift yields and gross margins to the level of a first wheat by suppressing the effects of take-all, believes Peter Taylor, an ...

Sludge production in the South West Water region is predicted to rise from 25,000 tonnes dry solids to 48,000 by the 2011, mainly as a result of the marine improvement programme and the cessation of ...

On an early Tuesday morning, I ventured off to Greenpoint, Brooklyn to tour NYC’s largest and newest plant, the Newtown Creek Wastewater Treatment Plant. One day of each month, they host a tour of ...