Micro and small enterprises that generate waste with an organic load beyond that accepted for disposal to sewers can now reduce effluent storage and disposal costs by up to 70 %. This EU-developed technology also enables energy recovery from the waste to set against production costs.
Disposal of organic waste streams is a major hurdle to the productivity and profitability of the EU’s agri-food and drink processing industries (a-FDPI). To-date, there is no feasible micro-scale technology for the safe disposal of organic waste or to recover some of the 288 Terawatt-hours of potential energy that exists in the a-FDPI sector as hydrogen/methane rich biogas.
Further details: Microbial fuel cells treat micro-scale industrial and agriculture waste