Compost program will hold public tour

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Richmond, Indiana
September 7, 2008

AKRON, Ohio -- Ohio State University's Composting and Manure Management Program will host a public tour of three state-of-the-art composting and bioenergy facilities Sept. 25.

The program, centered on anaerobic digestion and composting, begins at 8:45 a.m. in the Biogas and Composting Facilities, 2677 Riverview Road.

The Akron plant processes about 90 million gallons of liquid sludge a year, dewaters the sludge to about 15,000 dry tons and treats a third of the solids in a new anaerobic digester. It yields biogas that fuels a generator that produces electricity to help power the plant.

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