Organic waste management for EBI in Quebec, feedstock analysis

EBI is a company located in the province of Quebec in Canada with the mission to integrate waste management. Great challenges in regards to organic waste management are faced and anaerobic digestion is considered by EBI as an innovative alternative to landfilling. The selection of the feedstock is a key success factor for an anaerobic digestion project. Based on an extended literature review, an investigation of organic waste available to EBI and a multi-criteria analysis, it is recommended to use a mix of food waste, dewatered septic systems sludge, poultry manure, wasted activated sludge, grease trap waste and liquid yeast as input for the anaerobic digester.

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Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering.

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Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Year dc:date.issued

2014

Author dc:creator

• Sylvestre, Olivier, M. Eng. Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Advisor dc:contributor.advisor

• E. Eric Adams.

• Civil and Environmental Engineering.

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• M.I.T. theses are protected by copyright. They may be viewed from this source for any purpose, but reproduction or distribution in any format is prohibited without written permission. See provided URL for inquiries about permission.

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• http://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/7582

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eng

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http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/90032

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oai:dspace.mit.edu:1721.1/90032