Waste recovery, conversion, and utilization
AssigneeFeed Resource Recovery
InventorsRyan Begin, Shane Eten
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Abstract
Food waste streams may be managed efficiently with a waste-processing facility, which in some embodiments may be co-locating a food distribution facility. The waste processing facility includes a pulper fluidly connected to an input configured to receive a heterogeneous waste stream including biodegradable and non-biodegradable components, the pulper configured to mechanically de-fiber the biodegradable component and form a de-fibered biodegradable material, and an anaerobic membrane bioreactor fluidly connected downstream of the pulper and configured to produce biogas and anaerobic effluent from the de-fibered biodegradable material.
Claims7
A waste recovery, conversion, and distribution system comprising:
- a food supplier, a food product distribution facility, a plurality of food retailers, a waste processing facility, a transportation vehicle comprising a food product storage container and a separate waste storage bin;
- wherein the food product distribution facility receives food products from the food supplier;
- wherein the plurality of food retailers receive food products from the food product distribution facility and provide organic waste food product to the waste processing facility;
- wherein the food products are delivered to the plurality of food retailers and the organic waste food product is delivered to the waste processing facility by the transportation vehicle;
- wherein the waste storage bin has been pretreated with one of an enzyme and a microorganism capable of degrading organic waste food product, and wherein the organic waste food product produced at the food retailer is placed into the waste storage bin;
- wherein the waste processing facility is co-located with the food product distribution facility;
- wherein the waste processing facility comprises an anaerobic bioreactor configured to produce biogas from the organic waste food product;
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- wherein the biogas is converted to energy and the energy is used as an energy source at the food product distribution facility.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.