From tmm at adm.njit.edu Wed Jan 9 16:23:01 2008 From: tmm at adm.njit.edu (Meierdierck, Terra) Date: Wed Jan 9 16:35:01 2008 Subject: [HEEPP] JANUARY 23, NEXT FOOD WASTE RECYCLING INITIATIVE MEETING AND PRESENTATION BY ARROW BIO In-Reply-To: <00ed01c852e7$4b7f3510$0402a8c0@Hayesd610> Message-ID: THE NEXT FOOD WASTE RECYCLING INITIATIVE MEETING WILL INCLUDE A PRESENTATION BY ARROW BIO, WHICH PROVIDES A PROCESS FOR SEPARATING FOOD WASTE FROM MIXED SOLID WASTE WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 23, 2008 9-11:30 A.M. FORAN HALL 138 COOK CAMPUS, RUTGERS UNIVERSITY, NEW BRUNSWICK DIRECTIONS TO FOLLOW PLEASE RSVP PLEASE LET US KNOW IF YOU CAN BRING SOME REFRESHMENTS AGENDA: Presentation by Dr. Mel Finstein, on Arrow Bio Process (please try to look at www.arrowbio.com in advance of the meeting) See also summary at end of email. FOR-NJ Discussion (review documents forthcoming later this week) Planning for Future County Waste Forums Investment Forum progress Other agenda items? Please send. Thanks. Priscilla ************************************************** Priscilla E. Hayes, Esq. Executive Director Solid Waste Resource Renewal Group Turning Waste Into New Products Through Innovation and Policy Change c/o Department of Agricultural, Food and Resource Economics School of Environmental and Biological Sciences Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey 55 Dudley Road New Brunswick, NJ 08901-8520 732-932-9155, ext. 233 Fax: 732-932-8887 hayes@aesop.rutgers.edu Please visit our websites: http://swrrg.rutgers.edu http://enviropurchasing.rutgers.edu Don't take the silence of the yams as a sign that they have nothing valuable to say about health. Michael Pollan. ************ DESCRIPTION OF ARROW BIO PROCESS/PRESENTATION The Rutgers NJAES Report "Assessment of Biomass Energy Potential in New Jersey" (NJAES Report 2007-1) got it right in concluding that nearly 75% of the biomass potential in the state was municipal solid waste. The Report got it wrong in concluding that, to significantly tap into this potential, it is necessary to extensively source-separate, or isolate, the biodegradables organics in the waste stream. The need for extensive source-separation is bypassed in the commercially available ArrowBio process for mixed solid waste. In one unified system, traditional recyclables are recovered and the biodegradable organics transformed to methane-rich biogas through advanced two-stage anaerobic digestion (acidogenic followed by UASB digestion stages). This is accomplished in a watery system, in which the water is derived from the waste. A 4-minute video shows the ArrowBio process in operation at the Tel Aviv, Israel, transfer station click on FILM. Attached is a recent photo of an ArrowBio plant under construction near Sydney, Austalia, to open this year (2008). The ArrowBio process kills two birds with one stone: diversion from the landfill and recovery of material and energy. A 300 ton per day plant requires about three acres; the capital cost is roughly $25 million. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://listserver.njit.edu/pipermail/heepp/attachments/20080109/75679a01/attachment.htm