Patent ID: 6709594
Filing Date: 2004-03-23
Classification: C02F,Y02W

Abstract:
A method of treating biomass contained in municipal or industrial biological wastewater treatment sludge, paper-pulp sludge, animal or plant waste sludge, containing intra-cellular water molecules contained in molecular cellular units, comprising:(a) directing the biomass to an electroporating station; (b) electroporating the biomass for destroying at least most of the individual cellular units of the biomass in order to release the intra-cellular water molecules contained therein; and said step (b) causing massive disruption of the cellular matter, allowing for the release of bound as well as intra-cellular liquids and intracellular dissolved/organic matter; and (c) directing the released intracellular dissolved/organic matter to a bioreactor for performing biological digestion thereon whereby the intracellular, dissolved organic matter is used as food for microorganisms in the bioreactor.