Example 1: central aerobic treatment

facility for liquid manure

Fact sheet aerobic treatment plant

Since 1970's Four locations (Elspeet, Stroe, Ede and Putten) Total capacity: 660.000 ton / year liquid waste

(baby beef-veal calve manure) End product: 95.000 ton / year

Dry matter: 5.5% Organic matter: 2.5% Total N: 0.3% Total P2O5: 0.7%

Example 2: central incineration plant

for poultry manure

Fact sheet incineration plant Name/Location: BMC Moerdijk / DEP, NL Is being started up since this week Total capacity: 440.000 ton / year (dried poultry manure,

60% DM) 10-year manure delivery contracts with over 600 poultry

farms (farmers pay EUR 7.50 / tonne + transport) Products:

36,5 MW electric power fly ash (containing P, K, salts, metals etc.) is being

sold (?) as base material for fertilizer production

Process scheme

Lessons learned from the past

1. Successful and sustainable introduction of manure processing can only be realized in absence of options

2. Technologies for manure processing are abundantly available and well documented

3. Sustainable manure processing, focusing on replacement of chemical fertilizers, requires complex combinations of technologies + large scale of operation

4. Centralized manure processing requires long-term contracts on delivery of manure and export of the end product