How to Use digester in a Sentence

digester

noun
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  • Cabot Creamery then sends any wastewater to the digester.
    — Hannah Nguyen, BostonGlobe.com, 19 Feb. 2023
  • Be sure to pay your respects to the massive digester eggs on Deer Island.
    — Patricia Harris, BostonGlobe.com, 23 June 2023
  • Today there are about 137 digesters across the Golden State.
    — The Arizona Republic, 30 Mar. 2023
  • Part of that is an organic waste digester that sits in the corner of the kitchen, but oyster shells cannot be processed.
    — Stephanie Cain, Fortune, 20 July 2019
  • At the end of this school year, Temple began leasing three digesters: one large and two small models.
    — Annabelle Williams, Philly.com, 27 June 2018
  • Most of the industrial gas sold and shipped in pipelines in the world comes from wells deep in the ground, not landfills or manure digesters.
    — Michael Kanellos, WIRED, 24 Feb. 2010
  • The revenue from the project would help cover the typically high costs of installing a digester.
    — Danielle Echeverria, San Francisco Chronicle, 12 Feb. 2021
  • Oakridge will not be lacking the raw material fed into the digester.
    — Stephen Singer, courant.com, 22 Nov. 2021
  • The company has built a second, larger digester which can now process over 3.2 million gallons of food waste at a time.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 20 Apr. 2021
  • Without mixing the anaerobic digester, trapped gases cause the sludge to expand and rise.
    — The Seattle Times, 29 Apr. 2017
  • The digester can break down typical compost items like fruits and vegetables as well as non-compostable foods like meat and dairy.
    — Shelley K. Mesch, The Salt Lake Tribune, 3 Sep. 2021
  • Regenis, a tenant of the port that operates the manure digester, could not be reached for comment.
    — oregonlive.com, 23 July 2019
  • The waste is mixed with water to form a slurry, and transported in a 2,500-gallon tank to the company's anaerobic digesters in Collinwood.
    — James F. McCarty, cleveland.com, 23 June 2017
  • The manure had been held in an anaerobic digester tank, which began operating at the port in 2013.
    — oregonlive.com, 25 July 2019
  • In addition to a waste digester, the resort plans to install a biorefinery by the end of the year to transform leftover cooking oil into biodiesel.
    — Maggie Hiufu Wong, CNN, 30 Oct. 2022
  • The resulting organics are then squeezed out and added to a slurry that goes into the anaerobic digester.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 20 Apr. 2021
  • If that is diverted to an anaerobic digester, there’s 65-70% left.
    — Tom Condon, Hartford Courant, 4 May 2022
  • The explosion left significant damage in the area of the mill's digester, which is used to process raw materials.
    — Patrick Whittle, USA TODAY, 16 Apr. 2020
  • Dairies that have received state digester funding have an average herd size of 7,500 cattle.
    — Alessandra Bergamin, Discover Magazine, 11 Apr. 2021
  • The ambition was to promote anaerobic digesters for cow manure among clusters of dairy farms across the United States.
    — John Fialka, Scientific American, 6 Mar. 2020
  • The resort’s next project is to build methane digesters to turn human waste into even more usable energy.
    — Shoshi Parks, Smithsonian Magazine, 25 Jan. 2024
  • The food and yard waste is taken to a digester where it’s processed into methane gas that powers the trash trucks and produces a crop fertilizer by-product.
    — Barbara Henry, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Oct. 2021
  • Thanks to an anaerobic digester (turning waste into energy), there isn't even a trash can.
    — Tabitha Joyce, Condé Nast Traveler, 23 Aug. 2019
  • Vermonters can use a household compost bin, buy a Green Cone solar digester to break down the scraps, feed scraps to pigs or leave it to the composting professionals.
    — Kristin Lam, USA TODAY, 27 Dec. 2019
  • At the other end of the digester, Bryant captures biogas composed of about 60 percent methane and 40 percent carbon dioxide.
    — Wendee Nicole, Discover Magazine, 21 Feb. 2014
  • Corn goes through a digester to get turned into basic hydrocarbons, which can be turned into fuels.
    — Chris Lee, Ars Technica, 5 Apr. 2018
  • Each year, a total of 16 million gallons of food waste is mixed together before it is poured into two 1.3 million gallon digester tanks.
    — Don Behm, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 12 Apr. 2018
  • In the past two years, the city has held multiple workshops and a walking tour of the site, which includes the historic sewer digester building — now used as police storage — to gather public feedback.
    — Bryce Alderton, Daily Pilot, 10 May 2017
  • The digesters, large machines that break down biodegradable material and turn it into methane, were supposed to be built in farms in Fresno, Kern, Kings and Tulare counties.
    — Salvador Hernandez, Los Angeles Times, 28 June 2023
  • The waste is then composted at an anaerobic digester, which creates renewable energy from the process, Williams said.
    — Shannon Larson, courant.com, 5 July 2019

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