Originally developed for Utah dairy farmers, the system is designed to be both low-cost and easy to operate. Today, the IBR system has been successfully used to treat industrial food manufacturing waste and municipal organic wastes.
Key Properties of the IBR technology:
The UASB reactor creates a zone of highly concentrated bacteria that can biologically break down liquid organic material in hours vs. weeks. The challenge of using UASB systems to process municipal organic waste is that the UASB cannot process solid materials. The IBR design addresses this challenge while retaining the operational advantages of the UASB reactor.
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The innovative, field proven, Induced Bed Reactor (IBR) digester uses the Upflow Anaerobic Sludge Blanket (UASB) platform (see below) while being able to process high solids organic materials.
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