landiaworld.com ENGINEERED TO LAST No. 360 – GasMix Chino, California: Food Waste Digester Upgrade March/April 2017 The Inland Bioenergy anaerobic digestion facility in Chino, operated by ES Engineering, has capacity to process up to 200,000 gallons/ day of liquid food waste. Four 15,000-gallon tanks receive macerated commercial food waste from various sources. Those contents feed into a 140,000-gallon equalization tank, which in turn feeds one of two 1.2 million gallon anaerobic digesters. When ES Engineering began managing the Chino plant, the digesters were equipped with top-mounted propeller mixers, but the amount of mixing being achieved was insufficient. “Our co-owners, a waste management company, have several large contracts with grocery stores and food producers for

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