Decision support system (DSS) on optimized waste
collection by vacuum technology with simultaneous
production of bioenergy from wastes
The project BioSuck aims to help to redesign the food processing industry with regard to an
optimized waste collection system. This shall work via vacuum lines and subsequent processing of concentrated waste. A decision support system (DSS) will be created for the main
food processing industries.
The DSS will provide information where and when vacuum lines are advantageous for installation in the food processing industry to collect waste. The concentrated waste shall be further
processed with regard to bioenergy production or nutrient recycling. The implementation of
such results within the food processing industry will provide benefits for the company.
Those benefits include that the entire efficiency of the food industry will be enhanced. This is
attained by significant water-savings (50 – 80%) because of sucking waste away instead of
rinsing. Subsequent processing of this water with high organic load will generate products
like bioenergy, fertilizers or nutrients (for feeding purposes). In the first place water is saved
and thus costs reduced. Even with no subsequent processing the costs for wastewater disposal
will be significantly reduced. A company that has problems with high COD load in
wastewater can profit from a vacuum system, because then most of the organics can be separated and subsequently valorized. The disposed wastewater is minimized by simultaneously
reducing the organic contamination. Besides these economic advantages, a vacuum system
allows flexible reacting on changes in the food production process by adapting the controls of
the waste management system. Thus, no further investments are necessary.
A company that contributes to BioSuck can directly save money by simultaneously enhancing
the sustainability of their production. By contributing to BioSuck in terms of providing
waste(water) samples, information about the waste(water) disposal and/or the waste(water)
treatment the BioSuck team can evaluate, if a vacuum system is a possible solution for this
company.
Contact:
Fraunhofer Institute for Environmental, Safety, and Energy Technology UMSICHT
Osterfelder Straße 3, 46047 Oberhausen, Germany
Dr. Christoph Glasner (project coordination)
phone
+49 208 8598 1133
email:
christoph.glasner@umsicht.fraunhofer.de
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Is your company interested in getting more information about BioSuck?
A short questionnaire for BioSuck has been developed. This questionnaire helps to make a
short assessment of the food processing industry and the possibilies of improving the waste
management. Companies filling out the questtionnaire will get a feedback on the outcome of
the assessment.
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