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MEIKO'S MEAN, GREEN, FOOD EATING MACHINE
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THE SYSTEM - How it works

The Microvac system is made up of four main components:

  • The waste inlet with grinder.
  • The interconnecting plastic transfer pipe network.
  • The food waste storage tank.
  • A vacuum pump module with integral control unit.

Microvac operates by processing and transporting food waste from point of disposal to a holding tank that can be located up to 75metres away, or further if necessary.

Waste food is ground within the waste inlet by means of a conventional macerating unit with a measured amount of water, which is then converted to a liquid mass that can be easily transported within the pipework.

Transport through the pipework is by high vacuum (approximately 25mt/second) to a liquid separator that forms part of the storage tank.

The majority of the excess water is extracted from the liquid food (slurry) upon reaching the storage tank by means of a screen type filter. Extracted water is then led into the waste water system, first passing through a grease separating unit, or alternatively directly into the waste pipe work which has been provided with an enzyme dosing system.

From the on-site storage vessel the liquid slurry is transferred to the sealed storage tank that forms an integral part of a specialist waste collection vehicle, for removal to a waste handling facility, or alternatively to a processing plant that offers composting solutions. Biogas production is also a possibility, whereupon the food waste slurry is processed as an alternative fuel source and can be used, for example, as a renewable energy source, or as an automotive fuel when cleaned to a level of 97% methane.

Did you know?

  • HMS Collingwood gained its name from Admiral Collingwood, 1748-1810, a great colleague of Admiral Lord Nelson, who took command of the British Fleet when Nelson was mortally wounded at the Battle of Trafalgar. Collingwood was subsequently raised to the peerage as a Baron and spent the next five years at sea blockading Cadiz and Toulon as Commander-in-Chief in the Mediterranean. He died at sea off Minorca in 1810 and was later buried close to Nelson in St Paul's Cathedral.
  • There have been four HMS Collingwoods since the first HMS Collingwood was launched at Pembroke in 1841.
  • The present HMS Collingwood, the fourth, was built as a new entry Training Establishment for "hostilities only" ratings of the Seaman Branch. The 200 acres it covers were compulsorily purchased in 1939 for just over £7,000; the landowner claimed that it was some of the finest cornland in the South of England but, in local opinion, it was much the best snipe marsh in the country. It is now home to the largest naval training organisation in Western Europe.


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