Slurry Pumps
Slurry pump hire is playing an important role in a project to rebuild beaches.
The equipment is being employed to pump sand on to beaches by the Indian River Inlet in Delaware that have recently been damaged by storms.
Slurry pump hire could increase in India after it was revealed that enterprising farmers are using chicken droppings to create electricity.
According to the Economic Times of India, local farmers in Tamil Nadu are using slurry pumps to collect chicken droppings and pump them into a biogas facility.
A farmer may be organising slurry pump hire soon after he was told he must have an area of his property landscaped.
David Oughton from Lower Swell built a slurry pit on Rectory Farm earlier this year, but was not aware that he should have obtained planning permission, the Cotswold Journal reports.
Slurry pump hire may be needed in the Midlands after a new anaerobic digestion biogas plant was opened in Staffordshire.
The 3 million facility at a farm in Lower Reule will be used to turn around 15,000 tonnes of animal slurry into 1.3 MW of power for the National Grid on an annual basis.
Slurry pump hire may have an important role to play once construction finishes on a new biogas facility in Scotland.
Scottish and Southern Energy (SSE) is set to open a new 13.5 million plant in north Ayrshire in summer 2011 which will have the capacity to turn 75,000 tonnes of waste into 2.5 MW of electricity on an annual basis.
A slurry pump has been installed at a mine that extracts vanadium.
The metal – which is chiefly used for its ability to strengthen steel ? is being collected at the Xstrata Alloys Rhovan site in South Africa.
Slurry pump hire has assisted a German farmer in spreading up to 400,000 cubic metres of pig and cow waste over his fields each year.
Alexander Marquardt, from Wittenberg, employs the slurry pumps to help transport the waste so it can be put to good use, reports Farmers Weekly Interactive.
The hire of slurry pumps has come in handy at a building site in Prague.
Construction on a new highway began in the city in 2006, with the plans including a tunnel under a park.
The hiring of slurry pumps may increase under a Conservative government due to one of the pledges in its manifesto.
As part of the political party’s plans for the environment, it wants to promote low carbon energy production, using wind, clean coal and biogas facilities.
The use of slurry pumps at a biogas facility near Bedford has come in for praise.
New slurry pumps have been hired to aid BiogenGreenfinch’s anaerobic digestion process at Milton Ernest in an attempt to increase the amount of biogas being produced at the site.