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Keeping solids out of the wastewater stream is job 1 at Marshall Durbin’s chicken processing operation in Jasper, Ala. A focus on pollution prevention helped the plant win the U.S. Poultry & Egg Association 2013 Clean Water Award in the pretreatment category.
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Processing facility converts wastewater into electricity
Wayne-Sanderson Farm’s Tyler, Texas plant named Clean Water Award Winner in Full Treatment Category.
The Wayne-Sanderson Farms’ Tyler, Texas, facility houses a wastewater treatment facility consisting of two-stage offal physical screening, dissolved air flotation, anaerobic treatment with flow equalization, activated sludge treatment, UV disinfection and an energy-producing biogas operation.
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Sustainability drives poultry wastewater treatment changes
Tyson Tyler Road further processing plant receives USPOULTRY Clean Water Award.
Tyson Tyler Road is a “par-fry” plant that opened in December 1980 as a stand-alone further processing plant designed to meet the changing marketplace for value added poultry products.
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Koch Foods processing plant treats wastewater with unique sequential batch reactor
When the USPOULTRY Clean Water Awards judging team reviewed the past two years of process wastewater effluent data from Koch Foods' Gadsden, Ala., facility, it was not only impressed by the treatment plant's 100 percent compliance with Alabama's direct surface water discharge permit but also how efficiently the plant was being operated by Koch's environmental staff.
Shown are the aerators in the 3.6 million gallon final effluent flow equalization basin, FEB. The effluent from this FEB travels through the ultraviolet disinfection system prior to discharge into the Coosa River. This is the location from where treated wastewater is taken for phosphorus removal in the planned dissolved air flotation, DAF.
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Marshall Durbin diverts solids from wastewater at Jasper processing plant
Keeping solids out of the wastewater stream is job number one at Marshall Durbin’s chicken processing operation in Jasper, Ala. A focus on pollution prevention helped the plant win the U.S. Poultry & Egg Association 2013 Clean Water Award in the pretreatment category.
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Marshall Durbin manages wastewater with offal vacuuming, water reuse
When Marshall Durbin Sr. made the decision in 1932 to add live poultry to his two retail fish stands in Birmingham, Ala., he set his fledging food company on the path to become what is today the United States’ 19th largest poultry producer. Marshall Durbin Companies generated $326 million in sales during 2011, employs 2,000 people and operates two poultry processing plants in Jasper, Ala. and Hattiesburg, Miss. The company produces a RTC volume of 7.65 million pounds per week, with 65 percent of that production supplying the food service industry.
Marshall Durbin in Jasper, Ala., received Honorable Mention in the pre-treatment treatment category at USPOULTRY’s 2012 Clean Water Award’s presentation in Nashville, Tenn. Accepting the plaque is Amanda Durham, wastewater supervisor, and James Faison, vice president science and quality assurance, third from left. The plaque was presented by Dr. Brian Kiepper, left, University of Georgia, and the late Jim Walsh, Georgia Tech Enterprise Innovation Institute, far right.
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West Liberty Foods stays sustainable with high-tech wastewater pretreatment
West Liberty Foods achieves sustainable poultry and meat production for Subway customers using novel technologies for wastewater pretreatment. As the leading supplier of sliced sandwich meat to Subway restaurants across the country, West Liberty Foods is on the cutting edge when it comes to large-scale, state-of-the-art advanced meat processing. The company’s commitment to being an industry leader in ready-to-eat meat processing extends beyond the processing floor at its Mount Pleasant, Iowa, facility and into the plant’s environmental wastewater pretreatment system, which was a key factor in earning the facility the U.S. Poultry & Egg Association’s 2012 Clean Water Honorable Mention Award in the pretreatment category.
Ed Claussen, director of engineering, and Michele Boney, environmental compliance officer, with Dr. Brian Kiepper, University of Georgia, and the late Jim Walsh of Georgia Tech Enterprises Innovation Institute
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Sanderson Farms wins Clean Water Award at poultry further processing facility
Sanderson Farms, the third largest poultry producer in the U.S., is committed to taking a fresh approach to everything it does, and not only where its poultry products are concerned but company wide. That approach earned the Laurel, Miss.-based company the prestigious Clean Water Award at its lone further processing plant located in Flowood, Miss.
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Renewed focus on wastewater screening
The US poultry industry is putting renewed focus on screening of wastewater as a cost-effective means of removing solids, and the technology has potential in other countries.
With internal rotary screens, wastewater is fed inside a rotating drum. The water passes through the screened surface of the drum, while the solids are retained inside, from where they can be conveyed to offal trucks.
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