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Fats, Oils and Grease Control and Management (F.O.G.)
Workshop Presentatons
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February 15, 2005
NH DES Auditorium - Concord, NH
February 16, 2005
Publick House Inn - Sturbridge, MA
- Welcome and Introduction – Mike Jennings, NEIWPC
- Brendan O’Regan, from the Newburyport (Mass.) Department of Public Works, focusing on the success of Newburyport’s grease control program.
- William Hogan, from the Connecticut Department of Environmental Protection, focusing on pending regulations in Connecticut that would require grease control at all in-state Class III and IV commercial food preparation facilities.
- Ed Champagne, from echo/Technologies, focusing on incinerating industrial FOG at a municipal solid waste (MSW) incinerator in Agawam, Mass., and plans to incinerate grease trap waste at a MSW incinerator in Pittsfield, Mass.
- Michael Jennings, from NEIWPCC, describing an overview of burning grease trap waste in two sludge incinerators operated by Synagro in Connecticut and an overview of anaerobic digestion of grease trap waste at two facilities in California.
- Robert Rubin, from North Carolina State University, describing grease management program issues and considerations as well as grease trap waste disposal options.
- Steve Rohm, from the Delaware Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control, describing the bulk application of grease trap waste to agricultural land to enhance soil conditions.
- Joel Alpert, from Compost and Technology Solutions, describing a pilot study to evaluate co-composting grease trap waste with various other materials conducted in Knox County, Tennessee.
- The final report from the Knox County co-composting pilot study.
- Gene Dube, from Pat Jackson, Inc., describing a private septage and grease trap waste pre-treatment facility in Belgrade, Maine. The facility dewaters the liquid waste and composts the separated solids, sending the liquid effluent to a municipal wastewater treatment plant.
- John de Rahm, from Atlantic Dewatering Services, describing his companies dewatering technology.
- Bob Kelly, from Earthsource Inc., describing a private septage and grease trap waste pre-treatment facility being constructed in Raynham, Mass. The facility will pasteurize and lime-stabilize the liquid waste, then separate the solids, sending the liquid effluent to a municipal wastewater treatment plant. The solids are intended to be beneficially re-used. Note that the presentation consists solely of a one-page schematic of the treatment process to be employed at the Raynham facility.
- Norm Gridley, from Acadia Environmental Technology, describing biodiesel production options and the biodiesel market in Maine.
For more about FOG, contact Mike Jennings at NEIWPCC, 978-323-7929, mjennings@neiwpcc.org.