US 12,606,476 B2Granted

Biogas production system using organic waste

AssigneesKMJ International Inc., DHM Global Inc.

InventorsInsub Oh, Sinsook Cho, Myungkeun Oh, Bongyul Tak, Bongsik Tak

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Abstract

The present invention relates to a biogas production system using organic waste, including: a pretreatment facility having a mixed equalization tank adapted to equally mix food waste and livestock manure and treat and produce the mixed food waste and livestock manure as the organic waste; an anaerobic digestion facility having anaerobic digesters adapted to perform anaerobic digestion of the organic waste introduced thereinto; a gas refinery and power plant having a cogeneration plant adapted to perform cogeneration using the biogas produced in the anaerobic digestion facility; a composting and liquefaction facility having a solid-liquid separator adapted to separate the organic waste fed from the anaerobic digesters of the anaerobic digestion facility into liquid and sludge; and an odor treatment facility for purifying the odor emitted from the mixed equalization tank.

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A biogas production system using organic waste, comprising:

a pretreatment facility having a mixed equalization tank adapted to equally mix food waste sorted, crushed and agitated and livestock manure treated in an impurity handler and to treat and produce the mixed food waste and livestock manure as the organic waste;
an anaerobic digestion facility having anaerobic digesters adapted to perform anaerobic digestion of the organic waste introduced thereinto from the pretreatment facility;
a gas refinery and power plant having a cogeneration plant adapted to perform cogeneration using the biogas produced in the anaerobic digestion facility to thus produce electricity;
a composting and liquefaction facility having a solid-liquid separator adapted to separate the organic waste fed from the anaerobic digesters of the anaerobic digestion facility into liquid and sludge to thus produce a liquid fertilizer and compost;
and
an odor treatment facility having a cleaning device for purifying the odor emitted from the mixed equalization tank,
wherein the pretreatment facility comprises:
a food storage hopper for feeding the food waste introduced thereinto to a shredding sorter;
the shredding sorter for primarily shredding and sorting the food waste fed from the food storage hopper;
a crusher for secondarily crushing the food waste sorted by the shredding sorter;
a pulping and agitation tank for agitating the food waste crushed by the crusher;
the impurity handler for sorting impurities from the livestock manure introduced thereinto;
and
the mixed equalization tank for equally mixing the food waste fed from the pulping and agitation tank and the livestock manure fed from the impurity handler.

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A biogas production system using organic waste, comprising:

a pretreatment facility having a mixed equalization tank adapted to equally mix food waste sorted, crushed and agitated and livestock manure treated in an impurity handler and to treat and produce the mixed food waste and livestock manure as the organic waste;
an anaerobic digestion facility having anaerobic digesters adapted to perform anaerobic digestion of the organic waste introduced thereinto from the pretreatment facility;
a gas refinery and power plant having a cogeneration plant adapted to perform cogeneration using the biogas produced in the anaerobic digestion facility to thus produce electricity;
a composting and liquefaction facility having a solid-liquid separator adapted to separate the organic waste fed from the anaerobic digesters of the anaerobic digestion facility into liquid and sludge to thus produce a liquid fertilizer and compost;
and
an odor treatment facility having a cleaning device for purifying the odor emitted from the mixed equalization tank,
wherein the anaerobic digestion facility comprises:
a first anaerobic digester and a second anaerobic digester adapted to perform the anaerobic digestion of the organic waste fed from the mixed equalization tank of the pretreatment facility to thus produce the biogas;
heaters connected to a heat exchanger of the cogeneration plant and a hot water boiler of the gas refinery and power plant to allow the organic waste in the first anaerobic digester and the second anaerobic digester to be kept to a given temperature;
a heat exchanger connected to the mixed equalization tank of the pretreatment facility and a digestion stabilization tank of the composting and liquefaction facility to heat the organic waste of the mixed equalization tank using the heat generated from the digestion stabilization tank;
and
agitators disposed inside the first anaerobic digester and the second anaerobic digester to periodically agitate the organic waste.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.