11601results about "Bio-organic fraction processing" patented technology

In the processes for treating municipal sewage and storm water containing biosolids to discharge standards, biosolids, even after dewatering, contain typically about 80% water bound in the dead cells of the biosolids, which gives biosolids a negative heating value. It can be incinerated only at the expense of purchased fuel. Biosolids are heated to a temperature at which their cell structure is destroyed and, preferably, at which carbon dioxide is split off to lower the oxygen content of the biosolids. The resulting char is not hydrophilic, and it can be efficiently dewatered and/or dried and is a viable renewable fuel. This renewable fuel can be supplemented by also charging conventional biomass (yard and crop waste, etc.) in the same or in parallel facilities. Similarly, non-renewable hydrophilic fuels can be so processed in conjunction with the processing of biosolids to further augment the energy supply.

A process for producing biodiesel has been invented by first extracting lipids from the sludges generated during primary and/or biological treatment of municipal, agricultural, and industrial wastewaters using primary, secondary, and tertiary treatments followed by the transesterification of the extracted lipids using transesterification conversion into alcohol-based esters. The resulting products from this process include biodiesel, glycerol, lipid-free proteins, various other useful chemicals and an aqueous-based substrate well suited for optimized digestion within subsequent biological digestion (either aerobic or anaerobic). The lipids extracted from the sludges containing high levels of microorganisms are phospholipids which can also be directly used as lecithin. The extraction of the lipids from the sludges will be performed using chemical extraction techniques with the transesterification of the extracted lipids accomplished using basic, acidic, and/or a combination of the two transesterification techniques.

A method and plant for the treatment of an organic waste material in liquid form, e.g. liquid manure from livestock, the method comprising filtering fibres and particles from the liquid, subjecting the liquid to anaerobic fermentation in a biogas reactor, separating a substantially sterile and particle-free permeate stream from the biogas reactor, e.g. using ultrafiltration, subjecting the permeate stream to treatment with an ammonia stripper at an elevated temperature and preferably at reduced pressure to remove substantially all ammonia and carbon dioxide and to result in an ammonia fraction and a nutrient salt fraction, and separating the nutrient salt fraction into a fertiliser concentrate fraction and a water fraction, e.g. using reverse osmosis. The end products of the method are clean water, ammonia concentrate, fertiliser concentrate containing salts of P and K, compost and high-quality biogas with a high methane content.

The invention discloses a flower organic-inorganic slow-release fertilizer as well as the preparation method thereof. The slow-release fertilizer contains the following materials by weight: primary fermentation products of 45 to 70 percent, chemical fertilizers of 2 to 35 percent, a conditioner of 5 to 30 percent, coating materials of 3 to 25 percent, an agglutinant of 1 to 10 percent, active materials of 0 to 15 percent and a sealant of 0 to 12 percent; the primary fermentation products, the chemical fertilizers and the conditioner are mixed for carrying out the secondary fermentation of composting, and then the products of the second fermentation are crushed for press molding; finally, compound fertilizer particles formed by the press molding are evenly sprayed with the coating materials and the agglutinant, thereby obtaining the flower organic-inorganic slow-release fertilizer; the flower organic-inorganic slow-release fertilizer of the invention has the advantages that the nutrition is rich, the composting process is fast, the rotten degree is good, the fertilizer is prone to be absorbed by flowers, the manufacturing process is simple, and the use is convenient.

A composite biological agent with ternary microorganism for composting process of agricultural waste is composed of a composite biological agent I, a composite biological agent II, and a composite biological agent III, which is characterized in that the composite biological agent I is composed of bacillus, actinomycetes, microzyme and lactobacillus, the composite biological agent II is composed of trichoderma, ergillus, penicillium and trametes versicolor, and the composite biological agent III is composed of photosynthetic bacterium, azotobacter, phosphorus bacteria, and silicate bacterium. 30-60% composite biological agent I, 30-60% composite biological agent II, 10-20% composite biological agent III are mixed or applied to the process of composting process of agricultural waste in phases. Each component ratio and recruitment of biological agents can be both properly adjusted with different dung materials and dung purpose, thereby achieving purpose of using microorganism resources efficiently and raising fermentation efficiency.

The invention relates to a method for cultivating tea, particularly the method for organically cultivating tea, which comprises the following processes: (I) establishing an artificial complex ecological organic tea garden; (II) selecting tea seeds of the organic tea garden; (III) planting tea; (IV) seedling stage management; (V) soil management of the organic tea garden; (VI) nutrient management and utilization of the organic tea garden; (VII) pest control of the organic tea garden; (VIII) tea pruning of organic tea. The method for cultivating tea has the following positive effects that: as the organic tea is the inevitable trend of future tea production, the invention regulates organic planting of tea in China and promotes the large-scale development of tea producing areas toward harmlessness and organification; the method for cultivating tea does not rely on advantage factors of microecological nature of producing areas, makes full use of modern technical achievements and has strong technical operability, thereby ensuring the quality of the organic tea.

Solutions containing microorganisms differing in characteristics from each other and living in symbiosis with each other and enzymes characterized by containing aerobic microorganisms, anaerobic microorganisms and at least one basidiomycete belonging to the family Pleurotaceae living in symbiosis, metabolites thereof and enzymes; carriers obtained by adsorbing the components of the above solutions onto finely ground carbonaceous materials; and porous materials obtained by adsorbing the components of the above solutions onto porous materials. Because of having various effects of absorbing, adsorbing and decomposing harmful matters, deodorizing, decolorizing, etc., these materials are applicable to various uses in the fields of agriculture and environment.

The invention discloses a method for cultivating pure white needle mushrooms. The method comprises the following steps: a strain is prepared; a culture material is prepared; bagging and sterilization are carried out; inoculation is carried out; a mycelium is cultured; nutrition, humidity, temperature, light, air and other culture conditions are strictly controlled during a fruiting period; and harvesting is carried out in an optimum period. the formulation of the culture material is 0 to 32 percent of weed tree sawdust, 0 to 93 percent of cotton seed hulls or wheat straw, straw, corncob and other crop straw, 0 to 20 percent of wheat bran, 0 to 10 percent of corn meal, 0 to 10 percent of soybean meal, 0 to 1 percent of calcium carbonate, 0 to 0.2 percent of monopotassium phosphate, 0 to 0.2 percent of magnesium sulfate, 1 to 1.2 percent of sucrose, 0 to 10 percent of rice bran, 0 to 1 percent of plaster and 0 to 0.02 percent of urea. Quicklime and wettable carbendazim are added during the preparation of the culture material so as to prevent the pollution of undesired bacteria. The technical proposal aims to select proper breeds, popularize local large scale planting and improve cultivation benefit.

The invention discloses a method for preparing a herbal biological fiber and biological paper pulp, and the used microbial composite agent and a preparation method thereof. The biological fiber is prepared through pretreatment of a herbal raw material, biological degumming fermentation, and subsequent mechanical treatment of a fermentation product. The composite agent comprises degumming bacteria, nutrition bacteria and decolorizing bacteria, and various strains are synergistic without antagonistic reaction. In the method for preparing the biological fiber and the biological paper pulp, a chemical additive is not needed at all, but the high-cellulose and hemicellulose biological fiber and the biological paper pulp can be industrially produced; decolorization is complete, and the produced biological fiber and biological paper pulp have white color; a bleaching process is avoided, so investment in decolorizing production equipment is saved, and fiber extracting and pulping investment cost can be effectively reduced; in addition, waste gas and waste water are not generated in the fiber extracting and pulping process, inorganic pollutants are not generated, waste water and waste residues produced in each process step can be produced and converted into a biological fertilizer, and water is recycled.

The invention discloses a combined anaerobic fermentation method of organic solid wastes. The organic solid wastes used for the combined anaerobic fermentation include domestic wastes, excess sludge, feces, kitchen waste, straws, etc. The method comprises the following steps: carrying out different pre-processing processes to obtain organic materials with a granularity less than 5 mm; passing through a cutting pump, adjusting the C/N ratio, adjusting the water content, etc. to obtain a homogeneous fermentation substrate with a solid holdup of 2 to 10%; hydrolyzing and acidifying the fermentation substrate in the presence of a hydrolase; fermenting for a period of 15 to 25 days under the condition of stirring at a middle temperature of 32-38 DEG C to obtain biogas, which can be used for energy supply or output of a system; aging and desalting the biogas liquid to obtain a liquid humic acid fertilizer; and processing the biogas residues to a granular humic acid fertilizer. The fermentation substrate has proper C/N ratio to obviate feedback suppression of the substrate during the fermentation of a single material and simultaneously can enhance the hydrolysis effects of celluloses, lignin, hemicelluloses, etc. The method has the advantages of easy flow pattern control, low energy consumption, and no generation of sewages, and can obtain the high-quality biogas fluid and the high-quality granular humic acid fertilizer.

The invention discloses a seedling substrate for vegetables, belonging to the technical field of soilless culture. The substrate formula comprises the following components based on volume ratios: 10-40% of fermented vinegar dreg, 5-30% of fermented cassava dreg, 5-30% of plant ash, 5-30% of perlite, 5-30% of vermiculite and 10-25% of turf. The water content of the substrate is not bigger than 50%, and the total porosity of the substrate is 65-95%, and the total nutrient content of the substrate (N+P2O5+K2O) is 3-5%, and the grain diameter of the substrate is 0.1-4.9 mm, and the volume weight of the substrate is 0.2-0.8 g/cm3, and the gas-water ratio of the substrate is 1: 2-4, and the EC (elastic coefficient) value of the substrate is 1-3 and the pH value of the substrate is 5.8-7.5. The seedling substrate for soilless culture for vegetables mainly uses organic wastes as raw materials, and produces seedling substrate by high temperature fermentation treatment, and changes wastes into wealth, and turns harm into good. The invention has a low production cost, a light weight and complete nutrients such that it is suitable for growth and development for vegetable seedlings, and is a good substrate for soilless culture industrialized tray seedling for vegetables.

The invention provides an organic fertilizer with livestock and poultry manure and a preparation method thereof. The organic fertilizer comprises cow manure, edible mushroom dregs, pig manure, chicken manure, maize straw powder and an Em (effective microorganisms) stock solution. The specific formula of the organic fertilizer comprises 19.7 percent of edible mushroom dregs, 10 percent of pig manure, 10 percent of chicken manure, 20 percent of maize straw powder, 0.3 percent of Em stock solution, and the balance of cow manure. The preparation method of the organic fertilizer is characterized in that a production technology of the organic fertilizer with the livestock and poultry manure mainly adopts a shallow pool type fermentation technology, namely the cow manure, the pig manure, the chicken manure, the edible mushroom dregs, the maize straw powder and the Em stock solution are poured into a mixer in proportion and are evenly mixed and stirred, the evenly mixed and stirred materials are sent into a shallow layer pool type fermentation pool, and the organic fertilizer fermentation environment temperature is controlled to be above 15 DEG C. Firstly, various raw materials including the livestock and poultry manure, the edible mushroom dregs, the straw powder and a fermentation bactericide are mixed, and then the mixed materials are put into a mixing and stirring machine to be evenly stirred, are sent into the material fermentation pool to be fermented for 8 days and are discharged from the pool to enter a secondary aerobic fermentation procedure. The organic fertilizer has the advantages of low cost and high yield and can improve the quality of crops.

Systems and methods are provided for converting organic waste materials from a municipal waste stream to useful products. Organic waste materials having a wide range of compositions such as, for example, yard waste, food waste, paper, and the organic fraction of municipal solid waste are converted into a uniform biomass that is suitable for conversion to useful products, such as fuels. Through the use of a biomixer and a hydropulper, as well as through sorting and screening, the organic waste materials are progressively reduced in size and cleaned of contamination. The resulting uniform biomass is suitable for anaerobic digestion to produce biogas and a residual solid that is suitable for producing a high quality compost.

The invention belongs to the field of environmental protection, relating to a method for processing food waste by using black soldier fly larvae and comprising the following steps: coarse crushing the food waste and then adding auxiliary materials to obtain culture materials for the black soldier fly larvae; and grafting black soldier fly spawn on the surface of the culture materials for the black soldier fly larvae so that the larvae hatched by the black soldier fly spawn acquires the culture materials for the black soldier fly larvae, thereby processing and cleaning the food waste. Before the black soldier fly larvae ages, a polypide collecting container is externally connected to the area for piling up the culture materials for the black soldier fly larvae and is filled with dry rice bran powder so as to guide to collect the aged black soldier fly larvae; and the rest of the processed culture materials for the black solider fly larvae is dried and then prepared into microbial organic fertilizer. The invention has strong processing capability, rapid processing speed compared with the common compost, the processing period is 4-5 days; after being processed, the volume of the food waste is reduced by 10-30%, the peculiar smell of the waste is lightened; and the invention can obtain excellent microbial organic fertilizer and insect bioprotein at the same time.

The invention discloses a special seedling-raising medium for leaf vegetables, belonging to the technical field of soilless culture. The medium comprises vinegar residue, manioc waste and other organic wastes, as well as vermiculite, grass carbon, plant ash and perlite. The formula of the medium comprises the following components in volume ratio: 25-35 parts of vinegar residue, 5-10 parts of manioc waste, 10-15 parts of plant ash, 15-20 parts of vermiculite, 20-25 parts of grass carbon and 5-10 parts of perlite; and the medium has total nutrient content of 1-3%, free water content of 25-40%, total porosity of 65-85%, volume weight of 0.1-0.8g/m<3>, pH of 5.5-7.5, EC (electrical conductivity) value of 0.5-2.0mS/cm and dry base organic matter content of not less than 25%. The special seedling-raising medium disclosed by the invention mainly takes the vinegar residue, the manioc waste and other organic wastes as raw materials, and high-temperature fermentation treatment is performed for producing the soilless culture medium, so that the wastes are changed into valuables and harmful things are further turned to beneficial things. The special seedling-raising medium has the advantages of low cost, light texture and complete nutrition, is very suitable for raising seedlings of the leaf vegetables, and becomes a good seedling-raising medium for soilless culture of horticultural crops.

A method for treating particulate biodegradable organic waste includes sizing the waste and adding a base prior to introducing the waste to a thermal hydrolysis reactor and hydrolyzing the waste at a temperature of about 130° C. or greater and a pressure greater than the saturated water vapor pressure to produce a slurry including solubilized organic material and residual solids. The solubilized organic material is separated from the residual solids using a liquid/solid separator and the solubilized organics are subjected to anaerobic digestion to produce a methane gas. The base is preferably potassium hydroxide (KOH) at a concentration of about 1%. The method may further include preheating the particulate biodegradable organic waste with latent heat of the separated solubilized organic material prior to thermal hydrolysis.

The invention provides a household garbage processing method, comprising the following processing steps which are technique process of sorting, high-temperature and high-pressure hydrolysis and hydrothermal oxidation of organic substances, composting with organic substances, fuel brick production with non-recoverable and combustible substances, building material production with inorganic substances, plastic grain production, recyclable substances recycling, waste gas processing, sewage water processing and thermal power supply, etc. The household garbage processing method of the invention hasthe advantages of occupying little land area and having short processing time, pollution avoidance, low running cost, effective processing of noxious gas, high product quality, high-efficiency and environmental protection, and can be widely used for the processing of household garbage in various regions.

The invention relates to a pest-proof disease-resistant organic fertilizer and a preparation method thereof, belonging to the technical field of organic fertilizers. Tobacco waste and oil tea pulp are utilized as main raw materials to develop a method of the pest-proof disease-resistant organic fertilizer. The invention breaks through the limitations of harmful substances and single product effect due to addition of chemical materials in the traditional organic fertilizer. The pest-proof disease-resistant organic fertilizer is prepared from the following raw materials: tobacco waste, oil tea pulp, organic substances, a poising agent and a microbial inoculant. The preparation method of the organic fertilizer comprises the following steps: crushing tobacco straws, tobacco stems, tobacco powder, oil tea pulp and organic substances, spraying the poising agent and microbial inoculant, mixing, carrying out pool stack fermentation and strip stack fermentation, screening and granulating to obtain the insect-proof disease-resistant organic fertilizer. The high-efficiency biological insect-inhibiting factors contained in the organic substances containing massive mycoprotein can effectively inhibit and kill pests and pathogenic bacteria, and solve the problem of environmental pollution caused by the pesticide fertilizer.

The invention provides a process, a system and equipment for converting household garbage without support combustion of the prior fuels, which relates to a process and equipment for processing garbage. The process is characterized in that the household garbage is sent into a gasification furnace or an incinerator after separating, dehydrating by rolling compaction and air-drying treatment; garbage fuel is converted in the furnace by a mode of gasification or incineration, and is subjected to baking, pyrogenation, gasification and carbon residue burn-out in the furnace; the converted synthesis gas is used for cleaning energy; waste heat of incineration is absorbed by heat-exchange equipment for reclamation; garbage rolling liquid is sent into a digesting machine for anaerobic fermentation so as to produce biogas, the biogas is used as auxiliary fuel of the incinerator, and the digested residue and residual liquid are used for fertilizing crops; and inorganic substances separated from the garbage are used as raw materials to manufacture bricks, and clinker discharged from the incinerator or the gasification furnace is used for producing cement or fertilizer. The process, the system and the equipment comprehensively utilize the garbage so as to achieve complete dissolving treatment, and the equipment has a simple structure and low investment cost, and is easy to popularize..

The invention includes a method and apparatus for composting organic material and maintaining composting conditions within preselected limits. Composting according to the method can occur within a sealable container. Adjusting the composition of the organic material to within preselected limits converts the organic material to a compostable mixture. The composition is adjusted by amending the organic material and by mixing the amended organic material with a bulking agent and an inoculant. Incubating forms a composting mixture from the compostable mixture. The method includes the steps of monitoring and adjusting conditions of the composting mixture to maintain the conditions within preselected limits. The conditions of the composting mixture are adjusted by aerating the composting mixture or remixing the composting mixture. The remixed composting mixture is incubated to yield composted organic material.

The present invention relates to a method for producing green organic fertilizer by using edible mushroom fungus bran as raw material. Said method includes the following several procedures: pretreatment; stacking fermentation or tanked fermentation; sterilizing and cooling and continuous fermentation. Said invention also provides the concrete steps of the above-mentioned every procedure and its concrete requirements.

The invention discloses a refined organic fertilizer and preparing method of sludge, which comprises the following steps: compounding piled raw materials; piling; turning the pile; ripening; drying in the hot cavity; sieving to obtain the product. The refined organic fertilizer contains composite sludge, organic amendment, inorganic amendment, matured accelerant, microbe grafting agent and adsorbant, which are blended completely according to certain proportion, wherein these materials are fermented for the second time, which are prepared into refined organic fertilizer.

The invention discloses a novel method of the harmless treatment and utilization of livestock and poultry which died of disease according to the steps as follows: firstly, various kinds of the animal bodies of the livestock and the poultry which died of disease are collected; secondly, the animal bodies are crushed; thirdly, the crushed animal bodies are sterilized under high temperature and highpressure and separated for filtering, the material of oil and fat flows into a cooling pool, and the material of hair and bone is dried; fourthly, the material of hair and bone after drying is carbonized; fifthly, the material of oil and fat after cooling is added with catalyst, high-efficiency compound microorganism, trash, organic wastewater and sludge; sixthly, the mixed organic material is put into an anaerobic tower to be fermented, and then biogas, biogas slurry and biogas slag are processed for three-phase separation; seventhly, the biogas is used for burning and generating electricity; eighthly, the biogas slurry inside a fertilizer storing pool is used as farmland fertilizer; ninthly, the biogas slag is added with the high-efficiency compound microorganism and the catalyst for secondary ferment; tenthly, the material after the secondary ferment is made into agricultural high-efficiency organic fertilizer. The invention solves the problem of the environmental pollution caused by the livestock and poultry which died of disease and change the waste livestock and poultry which died of disease into valuables.

The invention relates to a method for comprehensively recycling the fecal sewage of large-scale livestock and poultry farms and farmland crop straws, which comprises the following steps of: (1) performing anaerobic digestion, namely regulating the solid content of the fecal sewage of livestock and poultry to be between 5 and 10 percent, adding anaerobic digestion inocula, and performing the anaerobic digestion to generate methane; (2) performing energy utilization on the methane, namely purifying the methane obtained in the step (1) to be used as fuel gas or allowing the purified methane to be used for power generation to perform energy utilization; (3) performing solid-liquid separation, namely performing the solid-liquid separation on biogas residues and biogas slurry which are obtainedin the step (1) to obtain the biogas slurry and the biogas residues of which the moisture content is about 60 percent; (4) preparing a biological organic compound fertilizer from the biogas slurry, and mixing the biogas residues and part of biogas slurry with the straws and part of excrement to perform aerobic compost; and (5) mixing and performing the aerobic compost, namely mixing part of biogas slurry obtained in the step (3) and the crushed straws, regulating the moisture content of the mixture to be between 50 and 60 percent, and performing the aerobic compost. In the method, clean resources are recovered by the anaerobic digestion, and the biogas slurry is used for producing the biological organic compound fertilizer with a high additional value.

Relating to the technical field of resource recovery and recycling, the invention discloses a resource-based and harmless treatment method for kitchen waste. The method is directed at the problems of high salt content in fertilizer products, easy cause of soil salinization, and large equipment investment for anaerobic fermentation of total waste in existing kitchen waste treatment methods. The method comprises the steps of: (a) kitchen waste sorting; (b) water bath desalting: adding water, and conducting heating and stirring to dilute salt; (c) solid-liquid separation: dehydrating the waste; (d) solid material aerobic fermentation: crushing the dehydrated solid material into small particles, and conducting aerobic fermentation and drying treatment to obtain an organic fertilizer; and (e) waste liquid anaerobic fermentation: conducting oil-water separation on the waste liquid, recovering grease, subjecting sewage to anaerobic fermentation, making the produced biogas residue and biogas slurry into a liquid fertilizer, and taking the produced biogas as the fuel of a biogas boiler. The method provided by the invention is particularly suitable for resource-based and harmless treatment of kitchen waste.

A scale high-speed composting treatment method of organic wastes comprises the following steps: the organic wastes are taken as fermentable substrates; thoroughly decomposed materials are reused as desiccants and strains; the physicochemical property of the organic wastes is adjusted to the condition required by aerobic fermentation microorganism; forced aeration fermentation is carried out in airiness fermentation plants; the fermentation temperature of fermentation materials is increased to over 70 DEG C in a very short time and high temperature fermentation is maintained for 1-15 days; organic wastes with high water content are quickly dehydrated to below 20-60% in short time and then are transferred to a static forced aeration fermentation system for secondary fermentation; therefore, the water ratios of the fermentation materials are further reduced, the fermentation temperature drops to the ambient temperature and always remains the same, and the materials are thoroughly decomposed. The method realizes scale high-speed composting treatment of the organic wastes and boosts resource treatment of such organic wastes as municipal and industrial sludges.

The invention relates to a green bioactive organic fertilizer, which effectively solves the problems of soil hardening, environmental pollution, and harm from residual chemical substances of grains, vegetables and fruits to human bodies. The solved technical scheme is that the green bioactive organic fertilizer is prepared by taking sludge, waste powder, poultry and animal feces, straw powder, residues, feather powder, amino acid original powder, phosphoesterases complex, a first group of complex bacteria, and a second group of complex bacteria as raw materials; uniformly mixing the sludge, the waste powder, the poultry and animal feces, the straw powder, the phosphoesterases complex and the first group of complex bacteria; stacking and covering the mixture with a sack for performing a biogenic reaction, and keeping a reaction product at the temperature of 50 to 55 DEG C for 2 days; adding the residues, the feather powder, the amino acid original powder into the reaction product, uniformly mixing the mixture for performing a secondary reaction, and keeping a reaction product at the temperature of 50 to 55 DEG C for 7 to 10 days; and adding the second complex bacteria into the latest reaction product, uniformly mixing, palletizing, checking and packaging the mixture. The green bioactive organic fertilizer has the advantages of scientific formulation, simple preparation method, good effect, no pollution and no harm to human bodies.

The invention discloses a functional microbial fertilizer and a production method thereof. The production method comprises the following steps: grinding 60%-70% of mushroom residue and 15%-25% of livestock manure to 2-3mm to obtain the major material by a grinder, regulating water content to be 60%-65%; adding composite fermenting agent consisting of bacillus subtilis, bacillus licheniformis, trichoderma harzianum and trichoderma viride in accordance with 50g-100g/T; stacking, fermenting and maturing for 15-30d, and turning 5-10 times during the process; evenly mixing the major material prepared from fermentation with auxiliary materials consisting of 6%-10% humic acid and 6%-10% rice hull; adding arbuscular mycorrhiza agent in accordance with 50g-100g/T; and sieving with a 3mm sieve to obtain the fertilizer. The invention provides an economic and effective technological approach for the resource recycling of agricultural wastes in China, and has important application prospect on promoting the development of green agriculture, controlling and reducing rural environmental pollution, improving rural eco-environment and other aspects.

The present invention relates to a process and apparatus for processing agricultural waste to make alcohol and/or biodiesel. The agricultural wastes are subjected to anaerobic digestion which produces a biogas stream containing methane, which is subsequently reformed to a syngas containing carbon monoxide and hydrogen. The syngas is converted to an alcohol which may be stored, sold, used, or fed directly to a reactor for production of biodiesel. The solids effluent from the anaerobic digester can be further utilized as slow release, organic certified fertilizer. Additionally, the wastewater from the process is acceptable for immediate reuse in agricultural operations.

According to one embodiment of the invention, a system for processing biomass comprises a chamber, a biomass input device, a fluid input device, and a retrieval device. The chamber is defined by at least a bottom, at least one wall, and a cover supported by the at least one wall. The biomass input device operable to deliver biomass into the chamber to form a biomass pile. The fluid input device is operable to deliver fluid into the chamber to the biomass pile. The retrieval device operable to receive fluid from the chamber.