Leverage existing capital assets, reduce disposal costs and increase biogas output.

Which municipal wastewater plants can benefit from MicroSludge?

• Plants needing to increase anaerobic digester throughput
• Plants needing to reduce truckloads of sludge for disposal
• Plants with limited solids disposal options
• Plants needing to increase biogas production and increase energy security
• Plants without anaerobic digesters wanting to reduce sludge for disposal

MicroSludge is best suited to plants serving populations of more than 50,000 people.

Wastewater treatment sludge from a plant serving a city of 250,000 people has the potential to generate 20 MWh per year of renewable electricity or the equivalent in biomethane.   Plants typically only extract 40 to 50% of this energy value and still send about 20 truckloads per week to a landfill, incinerator, or to land application.  Increasing digester efficiency using MicroSludge will improve biogas energy production and reduce truck haulage.

Installing MicroSludge at a wastewater treatment plant will:

• Increase the capacity of anaerobic digesters at a much lower cost than buying new digesters
• Increase biogas output, a renewable source of energy
• Reduce sludge haulage truck traffic, emissions, and cost
• Increase energy self sufficiency
• Reduce complaints of odours from sludge storage and land application
• Reduce digester operating costs with reduced heating, mixing and pumping
• Improve environmental stewardship by reducing the carbon footprint of the treatment plant and related operations