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Hey Guys,
I am filling out my applications forms for town planning for setting up my little distillery and they are asking for waste characteristics for liquid waste. Does any one have a document that indicates what are the typical wastes for backset and spirit run wastes that they could share? If so my email is here.
Regards,
Matt
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Interesting thought... If your wash is on average 10% over a 45L (keg boiler) charge then the waste would be at least 90% X 45L = 40.5L... Plus any low wine rejects plus any of the wash you don't extract (i.e.: what % you take it down to).
That's a starting point, anyway...
There was big discussion somewhere here on just that. It may have been in the pro section, I can't search there anymore :-??
If the volumes are small you could save yourself the trouble and not put any of it to the sewer. Take it all offsite in an IBC, neutralize and irrigate it.
@TheMechWarrior like 'grey water'!?!
Wash water is where the wastewater volume comes from.
I'm more like I am now than I was before.
In my area wastewater companies are mostly concerned about:
Stillage has an oxygen demand that is off the charts.
Interesting, what's causing that?
BOD refers to the amount of oxygen demand that would be required by the bacteria necessary to process it.
Biochemical Oxygen Demand is a standard method for determining the "strength" of wastewater.
I'm more like I am now than I was before.
I put my leftover stillage into a swale that runs above my fruit trees. Since doing that the apples I get have nearly doubled in size!