VERFAHREN UND APPARATUR ZUR AUFBEREITUNG VON TIEREXKREMENTEN, GUELLE UND JAUCHE

摘要

The invention concerns a method of processing animal excrement and liquid manure (fluid-solid materials) in order to utilize the ammonia in the material in non-volatile, chemically bound form as fertilizer, and the disposal by combustion of the polluting constituents of the material which are not easy to react chemically, or residues arising from the process, such as residual ammonia, methane gas or strong-smelling gaseous substances such as skatoles and mercaptans. The method is characterized in that the non-bonded and/or dissolved ammonia in the material is converted, by the addition of carbon dioxide and gypsum, into a non-volatile nitrogenous fertilizer which is readily absorbed by plants. Exhaust air from animal-husbandry facilities is preferably used as the source of carbon dioxide. Strong-smelling substances, residual ammonia and methane and other volatile substances from the exhaust air are removed from the material usually in a stripping procedure by passing oxygen, preferably in the form of air, and in particular exhaust air from animal-husbandry facilities, into the material. Such substances are combusted over a thermal catalyst, or in combustible gas, when they leave the installation.