A project designed to remove ammonia from the digestate (the material remaining after the anaerobic digestion of a biodegradable) and then used to make beneficial fertilizer products is coming to life at the Renewal Energy Anaerobic Digester (READ) facility!
David Trombly, senior engineer supervisor with UC Davis Facilities Management and Ahmet Palazoglu, chemical engineering professor, discuss the chilled water optimization project and its cost- and energy-saving impact. Camille Kirk, sustainability planner and director of UC Davis Sustainability and Kiernan Salmon, product manager with UC Davis Facilities Management, highlight additional sustainability-related goals and projects.
This past summer, Facilities Management (FM) completed what was a year-long project that included Building Maintenance Services (BMS), Utilities, Energy & Engineering, Transportation Services construction, Design, and Construction Management (DCM), and a contractor at the Med Sci D building.
After UC Davis took over the Renewable Energy Anaerobic Digester (READ) Biodigester facility in 2017, staff ramped up efforts to increase usage of the facility. They started by investigating removing ammonia from the digestate (the material remaining after the anaerobic digestion of a biodegradable).
