Technical Visits

Friday, September 3, 2004

The following technical visits will be available on Friday, September 3^rd 2004. Please note that the technical visits will be organized providing the number of participants is sufficient. You have to register by indicating your choice on the registration form. It is possible to combine one of the morning visit with one of the 2 visits offered in the afternoon.

1. Dairy wastewater treatment, production plant of Agropur
   (full day) - CANCELLED
   
   
   
   
2. Swine manure treatment, Hog farm near Lennoxville
   (full day)
   Cost: $30.00 CAN or approx. $22.00 US (lunch included)
   
   An innovative anaerobic digestion treatment has been installed to treat the pig manure from a large hog farm (4000 heads) near Lennoxville. The system, installed by Bio-Terre inc, is composed of two fed-batch reactors (160 m3 each) working in sequence at 1 week retention time in psychrophilic conditions.
   
   
3. Fruit processing wastewater treatment, Rougemont
   (1/2 day morning)
   Cost $15.00 CAN or approx. $11.00 US
   
   The company A. Lassonde inc is operating a fruit processing plant to produce apple juice near Rougemont. The generated wastewater is treated by 2 UASB of 800 and 1000 m3 in operation for more than 10 years.
   
   
4. Municipal landfill biogas collection and conversion into electricity, Gazmont (1/2 day morning)
   Cost: $15.00 CAN or approx. $11.00 US
   
   Installed on a closed municipal waste landfill right on Montreal's island, Gazmont, which is co-owned by Biothermica and SNC-Lavalin, is a conventional thermic installation with boilers, steam turbine and condenser. The collection of landfill gas allows Gazmont to generate 25 MW of electricity.
   
   
5. Primary sludge digestion, City of Repentigny
   (1/2 day morning AND 1/2 day afternoon available)
   Cost $15.00 CAN or approx. $11.00 US
   
   The Repentigny municipal wastewater treatment plant generates primary sludge that are treated in 2 mesophilic 1800 m3 reactors that utilize an original combination of design for sludge concentration, pneumatic agitation and clarification that result in a final effluent of quality.
   
   
6. Municipal landfill biogas purification and commercialization as natural gas, EBI- Énergie inc
   (1/2 day morning AND afternoon available)
   Cost $15.00 CAN or approx. $11.00 US
   
   Since 2003, EBI- Énergie is operating a landfill gas purification installation unique in Canada. After a complex sequence of treatment, the landfill biogas is purified up to a quality near natural gas and commercialized by direct injection in the natural gas pipeline network, therefore. The tour will allow the visitors to follow the nine treatment steps required to purify the landfill biogas from a 51% to a 83% concentration in methane.