Cow Manure to Clean Water and Fertilizer

The Sedro-Woolley company plans to build an experimental dairy processor on a farm that will turn cow manure into clean water while producing fertilizer as a byproduct. 

“This could be quite a holy grail for dairy technology,” said Jeremy Visser.

The concept behind the idea is similar to the company’s Omniprocessor, a machine designed to help impoverished countries by turning sewage into clean drinking water.

This new dairy processor, however, will use different technology, said Janicki Bioenergy’s Jeff Graf. 

The most noticeable difference is that the dairy processor will produce solid and liquid fertilizer as byproducts, rather than the ash produced by the Omniprocessor.

Graf said the water produced would likely be suitable for animals to drink, but not for humans. It could be used in different ways, such as for irrigation or for the cows to drink.

The fertilizer, he said, could be used by the farmer or sold.

“It could be an organic product that is sold to other farmers as a potential way of generating revenue,” Graf said.

Among those partnering with Janicki Bioenergy to put the processor on Visser’s farm are the Dairy Farmers of Washington, the Stillaguamish Tribe of Indians and the Snohomish Conservation District.

The goals of the partners include producing clean water to benefit the environment and reducing the farm’s carbon footprint.

Each processor would cost $500,000 to $750,000, Graf said. The company is looking at ways to make it easier for farmers to buy the processors.

“We are trying to put together ways for farmers to be able to use Department of Agriculture funding sources to buy equipment like this for their farms,” he said. “There is a lot of good work being done at the federal, state and local levels.” 

Source: goskagit

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3 Comments

1. I think with our experiences Cow Urine is an effective Manure and in Small Cows the urine is Medicine. So the water wich is using to wash and give bath to Cows are only the waste water and this also very effective Manure for Plants and vegetables.So there is no waste water issue.At most care is needed to procure all waste asto transform Healthy products for Vegetables and Plants.

2. The issue of water in the world is intimately tied to the issue of wastewater treatment his main source of pollution

   More it will fuel water habitat and more pollution discharged into the environment there.

   So far there is no wastewater treatment system, it simply management of feces that allows them to transit place of defecation until the place of their dispersal in the environment

   A similar configuration to open defecation in the open air of 1000 years back 

    

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   Bonjour Quelle catastrophe de voir des programmes comme celui ci qui méprise totalement la biologie.

   Virtuellement on peut tout faire c'est d'ailleurs ce qui se fait de partout dans le monde avec des publications envahissantes d'idées toutes meilleures les unes que les autres.

   A ce niveau ce projet reinjecte la pollution en circuit fermé. Ce qui sous entend qu'au fil du temps nous allons appauvrir la défense d'immunise des bêtes mais aussi avoir un impact sur  la santé des être humains qui s'alimenteront avec de la pollution dissoute qui viendra augmenter leur propre pollution.

   Les déchets organiques démontrés sur la photo ne sont pa sud tout fertilisant mais de la boue inerte, une matière organique morte.

   En biologie seul du vivant peut nourrir du vivant

    

   Hello what a disaster to see programs like this one who totally despises biology.

   Virtually everything can do it is what is happening around in the world with invasive publications of ideas all best than the other.

   At this level the fed back pollution in circuit project closed. Which under means that over time we will impoverish the defence of immune animals but also have an impact on the health of human beings that will be feed with dissolved pollution that will increase their own pollution.

   Organic waste demonstrated on the photo are South pa all fertilizer but inert mud, a dead organic matter.

   Only the living biology can feed the living