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- Title
Handling and Treatment of Poultry Hatchery Waste: A Review.
- Authors
Glatz, Phil; Zhihong Miao; Rodda, Belinda
- Abstract
A literature review was undertaken to identify methods being used to handle and treat hatchery waste. Hatchery waste can be separated into solid waste and liquid waste by centrifuging or by using screens. Potential methods for treating hatchery waste on site include use of a furnace to heat the waste to produce steam to run a turbine generator or to use an in line composter to stabilise the waste. There is also potential to use anaerobicdigestion at hatcheries to produce methane and fertilisers. Hatcheries disposing wastewater into lagoons could establish a series of ponds where algae, zooplankton and fish utilise the nutrients using integrated aquaculture which cleans the water making it more suitable for irrigation. The ideal system to establish in a hatchery would be to incorporate separation and handling equipment to separate waste into its various components for further treatment. This would save disposal costs, produce biogas to reduce power costs at plants and produce a range of value added products. However the scale of operations at many hatcheries is too small and development of treatment systems may not be viable.
- Subjects
POULTRY hatcheries; SOLID waste; WASTE products management; WASTE management; INDUSTRIAL waste management; AQUACULTURE; ANAEROBIC digestion; LITERATURE reviews; MANAGEMENT
- Publication
Sustainability (2071-1050), 2011, Vol 3, Issue 1, p216
- ISSN
2071-1050
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3390/su3010216