MABA Webinar: Advancements in Anaerobic Digestion

Anaerobic Digestion is a common biosolids stabilization process that has been utilized for decades for biosolids management. Anaerobic digestion provides the benefits of significant mass reduction, stabilization and produces renewable energy in the form of biogas.  When balancing increased scrutiny over biosolids beneficial use with a desire to promote resource recovery, leveraging and intensifying anaerobic digestion is a strategy many utilities can use to meet current demands while providing flexibility to adapt to future regulatory and market uncertainty.   The webinar will explore examples of innovative anaerobic digestion processes utilities are currently using as well as new options being developed to further improve performance and optimize the anaerobic digestion process.

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COST:
Member: $25
Nonmember: $50

Moderator: Nick Bonkoski, Veolia

Presentation 1: Digester and CHP Implementation at the CCMUA
Starting in 2018, the CCMUA built and commissioned Digestion facilities and a Combined Heat and Power Facility. This presentation offers an overview of the construction, implementation, benefits gained and lessons learned along the way.
Speaker: Len Gipson, Camden County Municipal Utilities Authority

Presentation 2: IntensiCarb: Unlocking Anaerobic Digestion Capacity and Resource Recovery with Vacuum Evaporation
IntensiCarb utilizes vacuum evaporation for the intensification of anaerobic digestion and provides new opportunities for resource recovery. When applied in a recuperative thickening mode, decoupling hydraulic retention time from solids retention time, allows for not only near perfect solids liquid separation, but an intensification of digester loadings in the range of today's most advanced systems, like thermal hydrolysis. Unlike other high solids digestion processes, the application of evaporation to the digester content extracts ammonia as well as water. The in-situ extraction of ammonia from anaerobic digestion is novel and alleviates one of the key process limitations of anaerobic digestion, ammonia toxicity. The combination of high loads and low ammonia concentrations has consistently selected for higher rate methanogens further building process robustness. The finding of 3 years of research will be discussed along with how this technology can be integrated into emerging resource recovery and energy strategies.
Speaker: Chris Muller, Brown and Caldwell

Presentation 3: Thermal and Microbial Sludge Hydrolysis Processes: Applications in Sustainable Water Resource Recovery
Sludge processing plays a key role in the energy balance (i.e. energy consumption; energy generation) of a sustainable water resource recovery facility. To this end, several advanced sludge conditioning technologies are increasingly being considered to improve this balance and to facilitate offsite management of the biosolids. This presentation will discuss two advanced sludge processing technologies, thermal and microbial hydrolysis processes, that were considered as part of ongoing efforts to further optimize the energy profile and overall sustainability of a large WRRF and plans for the first full-scale implementation of Jacobs’ Microbial Hydrolysis Process using C. bescii.
Speaker: Maddy Fairley-Wax, Jacobs

COST: Member: $25, Nonmember: $50 - Register by clicking HERE!