Matt Hale, International Sales & Marketing Director for HRS Heat Exchangers, explains how innovations in heating, pasteurization and concentration technology can help food processors and food waste AD operators to thrive.
The past five years have seen tremendous growth in the anaerobic digestion (AD) sector in North America. The latest EPA data1 suggests that there are now more than 180 AD facilities processing food waste in the United States. These include dedicated food waste digesters as well as co-digestion of food waste at on-farm and water resource recovery facilities.