Ukrainian engineering company ZORG Ukraine has announced development of new waste-management solution for plants that produce alcohol. Biogas plant can reduce sanitary zone (distance from the enterprise to residential area) from 500m to 150m. In many cases such ecological issues are vital for some enterprises.
Out-of-date lagoons occupy lots of space and have bad smell. Biogas plant requires space that several times less if to be compared to lagoons and manure storages. Water in lagoons is bounded by colloid compounds hence evaporation is very faint. After treatment in biogas plant water is separated and easily vaporised.
Digested biomass can be released to the fields without any time delays, which can reduce lagoons area up to 5 times. Investments into lagoon construction are money thrown down the drain. By investing into biogas plant you payback your money with profit and make land usage more effective. Biogas plant construction is useful not only for new farms but for existing as well, because old lagoons maintenance cost are considerable.
Some of waste products can be stored in lagoons while the other require energy and cost consuming utilisation (slaughterhouse waste), biogas production looks more attractive in that respect.
Usage of conventional lagoons and landfills often makes possible filtrate percolation to the groundwater that causes health problems to people and animals as well as sanctions from state sanitary service and costly medical treatment. Using biogas plant system you will avoid diseases, medical and penalty bills.
Equipped with additional filtration devices (pressure filter, decanter) biogas plant can reduce COD and BOD levels in filtrate so it can be discharged to sewage system or factory water treatment facility. COD – chemical oxygen demand and BOD – biological oxygen demand. Biogas plant makes possible removal of most part of contaminating biological matter (organic matter content reduced up to 60-70 per cent).
Despite the fact, that new waste-management system for plants that produce alcohol is acknowledged as the matter of public interest only now, ZORG Ukraine has already successfully installed its technological solution on various plants in Ukraine and Kazakhstan.
