Development of innovative anaerobic digestion technologies for enhanced energy recovery from cattle manure

这项建议解决了一个非常关键的环境问题--动物粪便管理，特别强调牛粪。牛粪含有50%以上的木质纤维素，不仅难以厌氧降解，而且会产生抑制作用的中间产物。该项目将使用长期测试来优化各种预处理技术，而不是以前使用的不稳定的短期方法，并对两种新兴的城市污水生物固体处理技术进行评估。该项目将探索处理生牛粪以及厌氧消化牛粪纤维。该项目的最终目标是开发一种可用于各种农场规模应用的技术经济评估的综合设计模型。该项目的三个工业合作伙伴包括加拿大和美国的两家成熟的技术供应商，以及北美领先的生物固体处理顾问公司。工业合作伙伴是该项目中将要开发的解决方案商业化的关键

This proposal addresses a very critical environmental problem, animal manure management, with a special emphasis on cattle manure. Cattle manure is more than 50% lignocellulose, that is not only difficult to biodegrade anaerobically but also generates inhibitory intermediates. This project will optimize various pretreatment technologies using long-term testing as opposed to the unreprenstative short time methods previously used, as well as evaluate two new emerging municipal wastewater biosolids treatment technologies. The project will explore both the treatment of raw cattle manure as well as anaerobically digested cattle manure fibers. The ultimate objective of this project is to develop a comprehensive design model that can be used for techno-economic evaluation for various farm size applications. The three industrial partners in this project, comprise two well established technology providers in Canada and the US, as well as the leading consultant in biosolids treatment in North America. The industrial partners are key to the commercialization of the solutions to be developed in this project