How to Use digester in a Sentence
digester
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But solar digesters are poised to play a much larger role as organic waste bans spread.
—Michael J. Coren, Washington Post, 30 July 2024
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Be sure to pay your respects to the massive digester eggs on Deer Island.
—Patricia Harris, BostonGlobe.com, 23 June 2023
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Oakridge will not be lacking the raw material fed into the digester.
—Stephen Singer, courant.com, 22 Nov. 2021
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Part of that is an organic waste digester that sits in the corner of the kitchen, but oyster shells cannot be processed.
—Stephanie Cain, Fortune, 20 July 2019
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The revenue from the project would help cover the typically high costs of installing a digester.
—Danielle Echeverria, San Francisco Chronicle, 12 Feb. 2021
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The digester can break down typical compost items like fruits and vegetables as well as non-compostable foods like meat and dairy.
—Shelley K. Mesch, The Salt Lake Tribune, 3 Sep. 2021
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Thanks to an anaerobic digester (turning waste into energy), there isn't even a trash can.
—Tabitha Joyce, Condé Nast Traveler, 23 Aug. 2019
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Most of the industrial gas sold and shipped in pipelines in the world comes from wells deep in the ground, not landfills or manure digesters.
—Michael Kanellos, WIRED, 24 Feb. 2010
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The resort’s next project is to build methane digesters to turn human waste into even more usable energy.
—Shoshi Parks, Smithsonian Magazine, 25 Jan. 2024
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Corn goes through a digester to get turned into basic hydrocarbons, which can be turned into fuels.
—Chris Lee, Ars Technica, 5 Apr. 2018
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Regenis, a tenant of the port that operates the manure digester, could not be reached for comment.
—oregonlive.com, 23 July 2019
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This digester gas was captured and fed into the MCFC as fuel.
—David Blekhman, Forbes, 9 Dec. 2024
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The resulting organics are then squeezed out and added to a slurry that goes into the anaerobic digester.
—BostonGlobe.com, 20 Apr. 2021
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Anaerobic digesters have a solid safety track record, Christensen says.
—Zach Kyle, idahostatesman, 20 July 2017
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Like many operations across the country, the farm produces biogas through manure digesters.
—Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 15 June 2026
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If that is diverted to an anaerobic digester, there’s 65-70% left.
—Tom Condon, Hartford Courant, 4 May 2022
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Dairies that have received state digester funding have an average herd size of 7,500 cattle.
—Alessandra Bergamin, Discover Magazine, 11 Apr. 2021
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The explosion left significant damage in the area of the mill's digester, which is used to process raw materials.
—Patrick Whittle, USA TODAY, 16 Apr. 2020
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Biogas digesters that turn gases from decomposition of excrement into fuel gas have been around for decades on a small scale.
—Edward Lotterman, Twin Cities, 17 Nov. 2019
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In addition to a waste digester, the resort plans to install a biorefinery by the end of the year to transform leftover cooking oil into biodiesel.
—Maggie Hiufu Wong, CNN, 30 Oct. 2022
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The food and yard waste is taken to a digester where it’s processed into methane gas that powers the trash trucks and produces a crop fertilizer by-product.
—Barbara Henry, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Oct. 2021
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The manure had been held in an anaerobic digester tank, which began operating at the port in 2013.
—oregonlive.com, 25 July 2019
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Some of the unsold beer is being used as feed for anaerobic digesters to create organic fertilizer for farming, the group said.
—Bloomberg.com, 3 June 2019
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The ambition was to promote anaerobic digesters for cow manure among clusters of dairy farms across the United States.
—John Fialka, Scientific American, 6 Mar. 2020
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The waste is then composted at an anaerobic digester, which creates renewable energy from the process, Williams said.
—Shannon Larson, courant.com, 5 July 2019
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As is the case with feed additives, manure digesters, and the Tyson program, farmers may be earning more without having to change much about the way their farms operate.
—Grace Van Deelen, Vox, 11 July 2024
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The broth is piped to the colony’s anaerobic digester, where microorganisms break down biodegradable waste to produce methane gas that will fuel spacecraft and other vehicles.
—Joe Pappalardo, Popular Mechanics, 8 May 2023
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The digester diverted 500 tons of herbivore waste and food scraps from a landfill and converted it into energy and compost.
—Ryan Prior, CNN, 24 Aug. 2019
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Vermonters can use a household compost bin, buy a Green Cone solar digester to break down the scraps, feed scraps to pigs or leave it to the composting professionals.
—Kristin Lam, USA TODAY, 27 Dec. 2019
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In the absence of oxygen inside a digester, bacteria break down the compounds in sewage to create gaseous methane, which can be used to power gas stoves or converted to electricity.
—Discover Magazine, 29 Feb. 2012
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