Grant: Alliance Grants
University of Western Ontario
$103,490.00
Development of innovative anaerobic digestion technologies for enhanced energy recovery from cattle manure
EF 2022-23
Résumé
This proposal addresses a very critical environmental problem, animal manure management, with a special emphasis on cattle manure. Cattle manure is more than 50% lignocellulose, that is not only difficult to biodegrade anaerobically but also generates inhibitory intermediates. This project will optimize various pretreatment technologies using long-term testing as opposed to the unreprenstative short time methods previously used, as well as evaluate two new emerging municipal wastewater biosolids treatment technologies. The project will explore both the treatment of raw cattle manure as well as anaerobically digested cattle manure fibers. The ultimate objective of this project is to develop a comprehensive design model that can be used for techno-economic evaluation for various farm size applications. The three industrial partners in this project, comprise two well established technology providers in Canada and the US, as well as the leading consultant in biosolids treatment in North America. The industrial partners are key to the commercialization of the solutions to be developed in this project
Programme
Alliance Grants
Bénéficiaire
Emplacement
Ontario, Canada
Type de bénéficiaire
Academia
Type
Grant
Source
NSERC's Awards Data
Tel que publié
Application id
574406-2022
Name nom
Nakhla, George GF
Department département
Chemical and Biochemical Engineering
Organization id
36
Institution établissement
University of Western Ontario
Province en
Ontario
Province fr
Ontario
Country en
CANADA
Country fr
CANADA
Fiscal year exercice financier
2022
Competition year année de concours
2022
Award amount
103490
Program id
ALLRP
Program name en
Alliance Grants
Program name fr
Subventions Alliance
Group en
RESEARCH PARTNERSHIPS
Group fr
PARTENARIATS DE RECHERCHE
Committee code
96
Committee name en
RPP Internal Decision Cttee
Committee name fr
Cté de décision interne - PPR
Area of application code
901
Area of application group en
Commercial services
Area of application group fr
Services commerciaux
Area of application en
Sanitary engineering
Area of application fr
Génie sanitaire
Research subject code
1502
Research subject group en
Environmental engineering
Research subject group fr
Génie de l'environnement
Research subject en
Waste water treatment
Research subject fr
Traitement des eaux usées
Installment
inst:1
Partie
1
Nb partie
1
Application title
Development of innovative anaerobic digestion technologies for enhanced energy recovery from cattle manure
Application summary
This proposal addresses a very critical environmental problem, animal manure management, with a special emphasis on cattle manure. Cattle manure is more than 50% lignocellulose, that is not only difficult to biodegrade anaerobically but also generates inhibitory intermediates. This project will optimize various pretreatment technologies using long-term testing as opposed to the unreprenstative short time methods previously used, as well as evaluate two new emerging municipal wastewater biosolids treatment technologies. The project will explore both the treatment of raw cattle manure as well as anaerobically digested cattle manure fibers. The ultimate objective of this project is to develop a comprehensive design model that can be used for techno-economic evaluation for various farm size applications. The three industrial partners in this project, comprise two well established technology providers in Canada and the US, as well as the leading consultant in biosolids treatment in North America. The industrial partners are key to the commercialization of the solutions to be developed in this project
