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Wastewater Treatment Technology Testing
Needed wherever there are people, small-scale wastewater treatment systems can be an effective and economically practical solution to local wastewater management. Similar to large, centralised wastewater treatment systems, small-scale wastewater treatment systems are comprised of a number of components that can provide effective sewage treatment …
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How to Reduce Pesticide Use
Pesticides are chemicals used to eliminate or control a variety of agricultural pests that can damage crops and livestock, reducing farm productivity. The most commonly used pesticides are insecticides (to kill insects) and herbicides (to kill weeds). In addition to potential risks to human health …
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Replacing Mineral Fertilisers with Certified Digestate
Increasing global demand for food dictates higher yields per hectare. Higher yields can often be achieved through increased fertiliser use. However, reliance on traditional mineral fertilisers not only raises concerns about decreasing worldwide reserves, but it also results in negative environmental impacts from consumption of …
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Creating New Biomass Renewable Energy Feedstocks
It began with simply trying to get rid of organic waste. That was the attitude in many European countries in the 1970s. Fast forward to the Europe of today and there is now competition for this organic waste! While North America is several years behind …
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How to Make More Biomass Renewable Energy
The equation is simple, more energy in equals more energy out. Therefore, it would stand to reason that simply adding energy-rich agricultural materials (known as feedstock) to your anaerobic digestion plant will create more biogas; more biogas means more biomass renewable energy to sell and …
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Low-Cost Biogas Upgrading Technology
As demand for pipeline and vehicle-quality biomethane increases, so does the need for cost-efficient, scalable biogas upgrading technologies suitable for anaerobic digestion facilities with low biogas flows, such as those on farms in North America. Now the Swedish Institute of Agricultural and Environmental Engineering (JTI) …
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Larger Harvests with Cultivation Year Round
While climate scenarios are uncertain, there are a lot of indicates to suggest that the climate in North America is becoming less stable and the weather less predictable. Less stability and predictability not only make it more difficult to plan your family day out, but …
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How to Make Agriculture More Profitable
Can a management philosophy from the Japanese car industry really make farming in North American more profitable? Yes it can, according to researchers at the Swedish Institute of Agricultural and Environmental Engineering (JTI), who have studied how the Lean production model can successfully be introduced …
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