Processing facility converts wastewater into electricity

Wayne-Sanderson Farm’s Tyler, Texas plant named Clean Water Award Winner in Full Treatment Category.

January 26, 2024

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.

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.

Wayne-Sanderson Farms

The Wayne-Sanderson Farms’ broiler processing plant located in Tyler, Texas, has been named as the USPOULTRY Clean Water Award winning plant for 2023 in the Full Treatment Category. U.S. poultry processing facilities in this category must consistently meet a series of wastewater effluent permit parameter limits prior to discharging fully treated wastewater directly back into the environment.

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