Solar Sludge Drying: Difference between revisions
		
		
		
		
		
		Jump to navigation
		Jump to search
		
				
		
		
	
 (inserted categorization)  | 
				No edit summary  | 
				||
| (One intermediate revision by the same user not shown) | |||
| Line 1: | Line 1: | ||
[[Category: Materials]]  | [[Category: Materials]]  | ||
[[File:Solar drying system.jpg|800px|thumb|Solar sludge dryer: dries sludge with solar heat in a well-ventilated greenhouse. ]]  | |||
Technology to use solar thermal energy collected in a greenhouse-type facility to dry agricultural and other wet material, such as sludges, biogas slurry or sewage. Can enable conversion of a waste into a feedstock for another process (e.g. biogas slurry into compost). The main goal is volume and weight reduction. It can achieve microbial conversion, e.g. killing of anaerobes.    | |||
Link: http://www.thermo-system.com/en/home/  | Variation on the idea: to use some kind of waste energy instead of solar energy (benefit: more independence of weather conditions, more versatile, etc.). These can both be combined. This makes good use of low-level waste heat from other processes.   | ||
The technology is patented.   | |||
Link: [http://www.thermo-system.com/en/home/ Thermo System]  | |||
Latest revision as of 20:43, 12 March 2016
Technology to use solar thermal energy collected in a greenhouse-type facility to dry agricultural and other wet material, such as sludges, biogas slurry or sewage. Can enable conversion of a waste into a feedstock for another process (e.g. biogas slurry into compost). The main goal is volume and weight reduction. It can achieve microbial conversion, e.g. killing of anaerobes.
Variation on the idea: to use some kind of waste energy instead of solar energy (benefit: more independence of weather conditions, more versatile, etc.). These can both be combined. This makes good use of low-level waste heat from other processes.
The technology is patented.
Link: Thermo System