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Turning Food and Animal

Waste to Energy
The future to Renewables & Distributed
Generation

By: Edwin Khew
MD Anaergia Pte Ltd

Key Issues Of The 21st Century
Anaergia Overview
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Global technology leader in the recovery of value from
organic waste streams
Complete solutions for resource recovery from waste,
specially organics to energy through anaerobic digestion
and nutrient recovery
Proven portfolio of proprietary technological solutions
around anaerobic digestion core
Flexible project delivery options, including DB, BOO, DBO
Over 20 years of design and operating experience
Core technologies used in over 1,600 digester plants with
over 355 MW of capacity from biogas
ECONOMICAL PROVEN DISTRIBUTED

WASTE
TO ENERGY IS
BIG
BUSINESS
Investment in biomass
and waste-to-energy is
projected to increase
from $14bn in 2010 to
$80bn by 2020
Bloomberg New Energy Finance

Economic and Environmental Driver
Biogas is a valuable energy source
Replace natural gas or Upgrade to natural gas
Electrical power generation (renewable energy 24x7)

Difficulty of disposing food waste and animal waste materials
Feeding food waste to animals outlawed by WHO
High cost of transportation of wet waste materials to landfills
Spreading liquid compost or animal waste as Agri fertilzer outlawed by EPA.

Green approach to business to meet national or global
environmental goals

Organics outlawed in landfills in Europe, US and China to mitigate
green house gas emissions and leachate contamination. Reduction
as incineration materials-lowers NCV and efficiency of combustion
Our Vision: Zero Organic Waste Future
Integrated Solutions
Food Processing
Waste
Municipal Solid
Waste
Source
Separated
Organics
Wastewater Biosolids
Clean
Water
Organic
Fertilizer
Renewable
Gas
Renewable
Power
Agricultural Waste
Recyclables
Anaergia has a global footprint with
Asian HQ in Singapore
Food Waste Treatment Technology
Food Waste
SSO / C&I
Liquid Waste /
FOG
Liquid
Storage
Bunker with screw
augers or walking
floor
Liquid Waste
OREX Pre-Treatment
System
Plastic &
Packaging
Raw Slurry
Clean Slurry
Small
Plastics &
Paper
Optional
Dynamic
Cyclone / Settler
For Treatment of High
Contamination Waste
Grit & Glass
Anaergia Triton
TM
High Solids
Digester
Biogas
treatment
Digestate
Screw Press
Screw Dewater
Polymer
Filtrate
Cake to
Composting
or land
application
Filtrate to Treatment
Filtrate return for Pre-
Treatment Use
Filtrate for
dilution
CHP
Upgrading to
Biomethane
Heat to Heat to
digesters and drying
(if available)
Electricity
Heat
RNG to pipe or vehicle
fuel
Wash Water
Injection
Food Waste Pre-Treatment
Reference: Food Waste
Reference: Food Waste, Glenfarg
Reference: Food Waste
Reference: Food Waste
Reference: Food Waste and
Agricultural Waste Co-Digestion
Animal Waste Process Flow Diagram
Food Waste
Manure
Anaerobic
Digestion
Dewatering
Ammonia
Stripping
Acid Scrubbing
Heat Exchanger
Fertilizer
Combined Heat and
Power Unit
Biogas
Waste Heat
Deammonified Dilution Water
Electricity
Sludge
Recovering Resources from Digestate
Start with raw digestate 2% - 15% TS
depending on feedstock and digester
type
1) Use Solid/Liquid separation to recover
organic N & P in the cake
2) The liquid fraction (filtrate) will contain
inorganic N & soluble K and P
3) Use ammonia stripping to recover
ammonia from the filtrate either as liquid
or pellet ammonium sulfate
4) Deammonified filtrate contains residual
ammonia and P and can be used to
produce Struvite pellets adding Mg
5) Deammonified filtrate contains org-N, P
and K and can be concentrated, dried
and pelletized combined with digestate
cake



Ammonia Stripping
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Applications
Production of deammonified
filtrate for use in feedstock
dilution.
Production of nitrogen fertilizer
from digestate
Reducing nitrogen load for land
application of digestate
Controlling ammonia toxicity in
digestion of high solids
substrates

Case Study 40 TPD Chicken Farm
Solution
Liquefy manure with deammonified
filtrate
500 kW electricity + 425 kW heat using
CHP
Solid-liquid separation using a two
stage screw press
Filtrate treated using air stripping and
ammonium sulfate production
3,800 lbs/d dry ammonium sulfate (800
lbs/d of nitrogen) equivalent
Estimated $210,000/year in fertilizer
value
Additional 30 ton/d of 25% cake solids
(N-P-K of 1.7-1.6-0.4)
Triton Digester System
Preferred design for large plants > 1 MWel
Tank in tank arrangement, Combines raceway and CSTR reactors
Outer ring: 1st Stage high rate, higher solids
Inner ring: 2nd Stage low rate, lower solids
30% Lower mixing energy required for high solids 1st Stage
Compact construction with 30% less footprint and Short piping lengths
Low parasitic energy consumption and Low heat losses


Inner Ring with Double Membrane Cover
Outer Ring with Concrete Roof
2
nd
Stage
1
st
Stage
Triton vs. Conventional Technology
Digestion Technology - Hydraulic Mixers
and Service Box
Digestion Technology Pumping and
Separation
Q&A
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