Electro-Methanogenic Reactor Electrode Optimisation

食品和饮料制造商（FBM）是英国增长最快的行业之一。该行业受到COVID-19、能源价格上涨和废物管理费用的严重影响。食品供应链产生了大量的有机废物和废水。有机会实施现场循环废物处理。废物中含有宝贵的化学能、水和营养物质，可以通过适当的技术加以回收。现场处理废物可以减少碳排放，降低运营支出（OPEX），创造可持续的生物能源供应，并减少对水的需求。然而，目前的废物转化为能源的解决方案，如厌氧消化（AD），占地面积大，处理时间较慢，需要20-30天。WASE正在开发一种分散废水和有机废物处理的新方法。我们已经开发了一项正在申请专利的电产甲烷技术，为我们的工业废物处理系统提供了一种循环方法。工业wase允许食品和饮料制造商生产可以转化为电和热的生物氢和生物甲烷，他们可以回收可以作为肥料出售的水和营养物质。industriWASE是一种模块化的集装箱解决方案，每天可以处理1-2吨有机废物或10,000升废水。我们正在申请专利的技术处理固体废物的速度比AD快3倍，处理废水的速度比AD快10倍。我们的工艺进一步分解废物，产生比AD多10-30%的能量，并减少污泥的产生。加速性能来自于我们的新型电极技术，它可以加速有机物的分解。利用我们的工艺，我们整合了生物传感，实时了解反应器中细菌的健康状况。实时分析消除了对熟练工程操作人员的需求，并使分散处理在以前无法实现的地方变得可行。industriWASE具有较低的投资回报率（3-5年），并且与传统的AD相比具有多种优势，包括减少占地面积和相关的民用成本，增加能源产生和更高的废物去除率。

Food & Beverage Manufacturers (FBM) is one of the fastest-growing sectors in the UK. The industry has been significantly affected by COVID-19, rising energy prices and waste management fees.The food supply chain generates significant volumes of organic waste and wastewater. There is an opportunity to implement on-site circular waste treatment. The waste contains valuable chemical energy, water and nutrients that can be recovered with appropriate technologies. Treating waste on-site can reduce carbon emissions, lower operational expenditure (OPEX), create a sustainable bioenergy supply, and reduce water demands. However, current waste to energy solutions such as Anaerobic Digestion (AD) has a large footprint and slow treatment time of 20-30 days.WASE is developing a novel approach to decentralised wastewater and organic waste treatment. We have developed a patent-pending electro-methanogenic technology to provide a circular approach to waste treatment with our industriWASE system. industriWASE allows Food & Beverage manufacturers to generate biohydrogen and biomethane that can be converted into electricity and heat, and they can recover water and nutrients that can be sold as fertilisers. industriWASE is a modular, containerised solution that can treat 1-2 tonnes of organic waste a day or 10,000L of wastewater.Our patent-pending technology treats solid waste 3 times faster and has up to 10 times faster flow rates when treating wastewater compared to AD. Our process further breaks down waste to generate 10-30% more energy than AD and reduce the amount of sludge produced. The accelerated performance comes from our novel electrode technology that accelerates the breakdown of organics. Using our process, we integrate biosensing to understand the health of the bacteria in the reactor in real-time. The real-time analysis removes the need for skilled engineering operators and makes decentralised treatment feasible in places it wasn't before.industriWASE has a low ROI (3-5 Years) and provides multiple benefits over conventional AD, including the reduced footprint and associated civil costs, the increased energy generation and higher waste removal rates.