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Active Research & Development

The Active Compost Team has a wide range of research experience and has an on-going involvement with in-house programmes as well as participating in joint projects with clients. Research sponsors span both public and private sectors where research is aimed respectively at public-good developments or commercial projects. The latter includes our ability to develop proprietary systems including patented or design-protected systems and methods. Overseas experience in the Active Compost team includes substantial work in developed countries, throughout Europe as well as third world countries. Our research philosophy is aimed at practical solutions first, academic outputs second. Despite this order our track-record shows that where possible we do publish high level quality-assured research in the public domain so that the entire industry sector can gain.

Commercial developments are carried out at the highest level of professionalism and confidentiality where the latter is required and we will work with you to protect your advances.

Experience includes the following:

Systems

	Compost control system design and piloting
	Achieving pasteurisation during composting
	Microbial dynamics

Products

	Compost as fertiliser and soil improver
	Co-utilisation of compostable materials with other industrial by-products, including quarry wastes and rockdusts
	Microbial dynamics
	Pelletised compost-derived products
	Analysis and data collection on compost quality

Environment

	Incorporation of composting into integrated resource management including biogas and energy recovery
	Sustainable resource-use and organic production methods
	Modelling of effluent and odour from compost

For more information on Active Compost Research please contact us.

The following papers are available to download:

White Papers

Name		File Type	File Size	Download
	Co-utilization of Rockdust, Mineral Fines and Compost	PDF	613KB	Download PDF

Survey Papers

Name		File Type	File Size	Download
	Survey of Composting in Scotland 2004	PDF	147KB	Download PDF
	Survey of Food Waste: Anareobic Digestion in 2005	PDF	60KB	Download PDF

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