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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body bgcolor=white lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Okay. My nickname is the Gordon Gecko of biogas: cost per ton? Value of separate constituents per ton? <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Randy Mott<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>CEERES<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> digestion-bounces@lists.bioenergylists.org [mailto:digestion-bounces@lists.bioenergylists.org] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Peter Allison<br><b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, June 29, 2011 4:31 AM<br><b>To:</b> digestion<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [Digestion] Digestate as fertilizer.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Hi All,</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>With regard to utilizing digestate as a crop fertilizer, it is often stated the slurry is spread on fields with the inherent problem of biological toxicity and crusting of surface applications.</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>I believe this process is an incomplete and basically a cheap and nasty means of disposing a potentially valuable resource.</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>The addition of a 1.5% potassium hydroxide solution of to the spent digestate enables a disassociation of the solid fraction from the colloidal material. When the un-reacted and fibrous remains are filtered from the treated mix and the resultant fluid is allowed to settle, colloidal concentrate or fulvic acid will be found in the top fraction, humic acid in the lower portion and carbon rich nutrient at the bottom. </span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>The increased pH also enables a stabilization of biological activity within the fluids until dilution with water.</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>These fractions are the most valuable components of the AD process. The bio-gas is a bonus.</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>The fulvic acid is a supreme foliar fertilizer, the humic acid is best suited to soil applications and the carbon mud is an excellent binder for a wide range of solid crop fertilizer inclusions such as rock-dust, blood and bone, etc, before pelletizing for broadcast operations.</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>We are desperately looking for sustainable solutions to chemical based crop fertilizers. Most agriculturalists are aware of the folly of NPK reliance. </span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>AD, like the composting of organic waste materials provides all of the nutritional requirements for every form of plant-life.</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Recycling of crop nutrients via AD has the ability to negate the detrimental effects of chemical agriculture, repair degraded soils, help resolve salinity problems, increase nutritional food values of crops, increase soil moisture holding capacity and put an end to the contamination of precious waterways. </span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Simply dumping spent digestate on fields is a lazy and mindless means for disposal.</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Don't waste waste.</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Regards,</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Peter. </span><o:p></o:p></p></div></div></body></html>