Digesters

In California, supporters view digesters as important in helping the state meet climate goals and as a source of renewable natural gas for vehicles.

Anaerobic digesters have a pump attached to the top of them and the methane gas will go through it into a furnace.

Anaergia’s Omnivore digester system triples digester throughput with one-tenth the energy use of conventional digesters, providing efficient high solids digestion.

Opponents are worried about the smells, truck traffic and issues from other digesters.

Grady said the university is hiring a consultant to conduct a waste composition report to analyze its waste stream, how much contamination is in university recycling and how much food is not captured by digesters on campus.

It can be produced using anaerobic digesters (air-tight tanks with different configurations).