Definition of digester
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:a vessel for digesting especially plant or animal materials
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Farmer Sue McCloskey and her husband, Mike, have found a way to fight that shocking statistic, with nothing udder than manure: Each day, it's put into an anaerobic digester, which breaks down waste and collects the gas released in the process.
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The Perris anaerobic digester is designed to process pre- and post-consumer food waste, including fats, oils and grease; landscape, pruning and other green waste; and nonhazardous wood waste.
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Anaerobic digesters have a solid safety track record, Christensen says.
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The next phase includes building a mixed-waste processing facility, an anaerobic digester and public education room.
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The waste is mixed with water to form a slurry, and transported in a 2,500-gallon tank to the company's anaerobic digesters in Collinwood.
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The Quasar Energy Group, headquartered in Cleveland, manufactures and operates biomass anaerobic digesters, which mix microbes and enzymes with thousands of tons of food waste and manure.
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Instead of relying on private developers to build new facilities for the digesters, cities are adapting existing infrastructure: wastewater treatment facilities.
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The same way humans chew to accelerate digestion, machines grind organics into a slurry the consistency of a milkshake, which is fed into a large, airtight tank heated to about 100 degrees, called a digester.
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