Abstract
In September 2009, a facility was set up at the sugar factory in Nordstemmen to remove organic material contained in sugar factory waste water in order to reduce the odour of the settling ponds. Two sieving machines were installed in an empty soil settling pond. After a short start up period, around 200 t of material per day, containing approximately 10 t of pure organic material, were sieved out of the water. Two modes of operation (parallel and in series) were tested. There was a higher throughput in the operation in parallel but slightly lower separation of the organic material. A third mode of operation was an additional washing of the organic material. The washed organic material was studied in order to use the organic fraction as feed for biogas plants. The project helped to significantly reduce the smell, emitted from the soil settling ponds at Nordstemmen, over the following year.
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