DIGESTER FOR CONVERTING ORGANIC MATERIAL INTO COMPOST

摘要

A rotable digester drum (10) for converting organic waste material into compost which has internaly disposed along its longitudinal axis (14) perpendicular thereto a series of spaced baffles (16), each baffle (16) having a cross-sectional area ranging from 60-70 % of the cross-sectional area of the drum (10) and the openings being arranged with respect to one another to cause material and air introduced into the drum (10) to traverse a non-linear path through the drum (10), the drum (10) having a plurality of longitudinally extending internal ribs (62) arranged in spaced array around its circumference.