Waste to energy
Shrewsbury-based Borger has completed the installation of a new pump and macerating system for a processing plant that converts food waste into nutrient-rich compost.
Featuring an auger, grinder and rotary lobe pump, the highly robust Borger system methodically moves and reduces acidic food waste, ready for composting.
Designed with Borger’s Maintenance-In-Place for ease of servicing, the reliability of the custom-built system greatly reduces downtime.
By macerating the solids so efficiently, the Borger Multicrusher homogenises food waste to help facilitate the most effective pumping process.
In addition to composting, Borger’s pumps and macerators are widely used at biogas/AD plants, including the award-winning Creed Integrated Waste Management Facility on the Isle of Lewis, Scotland. Here, a Borger Multicrusher chops a 7-cubic tonne batch (per shift) of waste salmon. The technology guarantees the shred of waste salmon to meet stringent regulations for the safe use of digestate as a renewable fertiliser, by cutting the waste to the required maximum particle size of 12mm.
Also, at three Singleton Birch biogas plants in Northern Lincolnshire, England, a total of four Borger rotary lobe pumps are an integral part of the AD process that utilises maize, sugar beet and chicken litter as its feedstock.
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