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Article: South Africa: SAB Miller Uses Brewery Waste from Alrode Brewery in South Africa to Reduce Carbon Footprint.
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- November 9, 2009
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This waste is normally fed to standard industrial effluent treatment plants, either in the brewery or at the local authority, where physical and aerobic fermentation processes are used to remove the organic material. The cost of this treatment or the fee paid is directly related to the organic level and volume of the waste.
In the biogas recovery project the brewery s effluent is treated by converting organic material into methane gas by means of the anaerobic digestion process. The anaerobic digestion process converts 90% of the 25 tons a day of organic material leaving the Alrode brewery in five million litres of effluent. This produces ...