How Other Utilities Do It

摘要

To determine how existing thermal drying facilities marketed their product and identify any marketing issues they encountered, Black & Veatch (Overland Park, Kan.) surveyed 20 thermal drying facilities in 2008-2009.rnThe facilities surveyed had various markets, including farmers, fertilizer blenders, landscapers, and golf course owners, for their heat-dried biosolids. Most maintained multiple outlets for their product. And because there is always a learning curve for staff to produce an acceptable product and develop a new market, newer facilities (such as Pierce County, Wash.) were landfilling the product while developing markets and clearing regulatory hurdles.