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Transform Waste into Revenue
By Daniel Lakovic, Business Development Manager, Flottweg Separation Technology
While the concept of turning waste into revenue is and the high demand for fats contained in that wastewater learning about — especially if you are expanding or upgrading your wastewater treatment plant.
•Waste product: away and dispose of.
• By-product: give it away for free or receive a nominal payment. For example, sludge solids may be used in agricultural or
•Co-product: hit a target specification for moisture, insoluble and
Moving Co-Products up the Value Chain
Renderers are obviously familiar with the range of products the meal and fat.
Not all of these products have the same value. A good example of a lower-value use for recovered meal would be The highest value comes from selling product to pet food manufacturers.
When moving up the value chain using a two-stage DAF system, the goal is to sell as a revenue stream what you formerly had to pay to treat or haul away. The proteins and fats that you recover would show up in your treatment plant as total
With a two-stage DAF system augmented with centrifuges, increased revenue by maximizing the amount received for the animal that was processed.
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