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digester Definition

di·gester (di jestər, dī-)

noun

  1. a person who makes a digest
  2. a heavy metal container in which substances are heated or cooked to soften them or extract soluble elements from them
  3. autoclave

digester Usage Examples

Converse of object

  • use: You can also use a food digester to dispose of your food waste.
  • install: More cooperation between scientists and farmers and credit systems for poor farmers to install digesters will also help to increase the adoption rate.
  • heat: Most of the heat is used within the plant to heat the digesters.
  • have: You could have digesters producing electricity and heat - the heat going for fish farming or horticulture.

Adjective modifier

  • anaerobic: In George's farm, which I call Dream Farm I, the anaerobic digester is the key technology.
  • on-farm: It provides a picture of the current state of on-farm anaerobic digester ( AD ) use in these states in 2004.
  • aerobic: These problems have now been resolved, for example with the installation of a large aerobic digester at the yeast site.
  • thermophilic: This study involved operating laboratory-scale thermophilic anaerobic digesters with high feed concentrations to limit additional energy costs.
  • central: One of the reasons why central digesters have developed in Denmark is the scarcity of large cattle farms.
  • several: Often several digesters are used together to maintain a continuous supply of gas.

Modifies a noun

  • yield: The anaerobic digester yields a residue rich in nutrients that is an excellent fertilizer for crops.
  • scheme: Soil erosion Soil erosion is reduced where digested sludge from farm slurry digester schemes provides a good fertilizer.

Noun used with modifier

  • biogas: Cattle dung is no longer stored in the home, but is fed directly to the biogas digester along with toilet waste.
  • lactose: IBS was found in 15 % of both the lactose maldigesters and lactose digesters.
  • food: Purchase a ' Green Cone ' food digester for disposal of food waste.
  • waste: Click here for the complete eco food waste digester system.
  • control: Sucrose caused more symptoms in the lactose maldigesters than in the control lactose digesters ( P = 0.05 ).
  • slurry: Soil erosion Soil erosion is reduced where digested sludge from farm slurry digester schemes provides a good fertilizer.

Preposition: after

fermentation: The solid material that remains in the digester after fermentation can be used as an organic fertilizer.

Preposition: for

manure: This report presents profiles of farms using anaerobic digesters for animal manures in the Great Lakes States of the United States.

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