Soil amendment and method
AssigneeCCD Holdings LLC
InventorsCarey J. Boote, Russ Malek
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Abstract
A soil amendment comprising lignocellulosic fibrous materials is provided having one or more solvents and a fiber, wherein the fiber has been processed by ruminant digestion and anaerobic digestion. A method for preparing a soil amendment is also disclosed including the steps of providing excrement from a ruminant which has undergone ruminant digestion, introducing the ruminant excrement into an anaerobic digester, modifying the ruminant excrement to a first wet product, modifying the first wet product to generate a first dry product, and densifying the first dry product to, in turn, generate the soil amendment.
Claims14
A digestate composition capable of being included in a soil amendment, comprising:
- at least one solvent;
- a lignocellulosic fiber processed by ruminant digestion and anaerobic digestion;
- and
- wherein the density of the fiber of the digestate composition ranges from between approximately 0.400 grams per cubic centimeter to approximately 1.40 grams per cubic centimeter.
A digestate composition capable of being included in a soil amendment derived from ruminant excrement, comprising:
- a solvent and a lignocellulosic fiber, wherein the lignocellulosic fiber has been processed by ruminant digestion and anaerobic digestion;
- wherein the density of the fiber of the digestate composition ranges from between approximately 0.400 grams per cubic centimeter to approximately 1.40 grams per cubic centimeter.
A method for preparing a digestate composition capable of being included in a soil amendment, comprising the steps of:
- providing excrement from a ruminant which has undergone ruminant digestion;
- introducing the ruminant excrement into an anaerobic digester;
- modifying the ruminant excrement to a first wet product;
- modifying the first wet product to generate a first dry product;
- and
- densifying the first dry product to generate the digestate composition;
- wherein the density of the fiber of the digestate composition ranges from between approximately 0.400 grams per cubic centimeter to approximately 1.40 grams per cubic centimeter.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.