Papers on Envrionmental Energy Company's Technology

Overview of AGF (in PDF) and its use in pilot plants and full scale facilities.

Operational Economics Example for a 10 MGD Plant (in PDF). Shows the benefits deriving from purely operational benefits associated with energy production and decreased solids disposal costs.

Burke, D.A. (2000), "Class A Biosolids with the AGF Pasteurization Process,"
WEFTEC 2000, Water Environment Federation 73rd Annual Conference and Exposition
to be presented at Oct 14-18, 2000, Anaheim, CA

Burke, D.A. and Yokers, T. (1999), "Class A Biosolids with the AGF Process,"
66th Annual Pacific Northwest Pollution Control Association Conference, Bellevue, WA

Burke, D.A., Butler, R., and Hummel, S. (1997), "An Assessment of the AGF (Anoxic Gas Flotation) High Rate Anaerobic Digestion Process." Water Environment Federation 12th Annual Residuals and Biosolids Management Conference, Bellevue, WA pp 423-430.

Burke, D.A. (1997), "Pilot Plant Operation of the AGF Stabilization Process at Potato Processing Facilities," 8th International Conference on Anaerobic Digestion, Sendai, Japan.

Burke, D.A. (1997), "Anaerobic Digestion of Sewage Sludge Using Anoxic Gas Flotation," 8th International Conference on Anaerobic Digestion, Sendai, Japan.

Burke, D.A. (1997), "High Rate Anaerobic Digestion - The AGF Process," 1997 ASCE Environmental Engineering Conference, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada pp. 1037-1046.

Burke, D.A. (1996), "Improved Biosolids Digestion Utilizing Anoxic Gas Flotation," 69th Annual Conference of the Water Environment Federation, Dallas, Texas, pp 223-233.

Burke, D.A. (1996), Butler, R., Finger, R., and Hummel, S., "Improved Anaerobic Digestion Utilizing Anoxic Gas Flotation," WEFTEC '96, Dallas, Texas

Burke, D.A., (1996), "High Rate Anaerobic Digestion of Food Processing Waste," Energy and the Environment, Northwest Food Processors Association, Portland, Oregon

Burke, D.A. (1992), "Sewage Sludge Digestion Using the AGF Process," The Future Direction of Municipal Sludge (BioSolids): Where We Are and Where We Are Going, Water Environment Federation, Vol 2, pp 31-46.

Burke, D.A. (1992), "Total Volatile Solids Destruction Using the AGF Process," Pacific Northwest Pollution Control Association, Boise, Idaho.

Environmental Energy Patents

Burke, D.A., Anoxic Gas Flotation, US Patent 5,015,384; Canada 2,102,797; Australia 66,2715.

Burke, D.A., Anaerobic Treatment Process for the Rapid Hydrolis and Conversion of Organic Materials to Soluble and Gaseous Components, US Patent 5,560,047.

Burke, D.A., ...Pasteurization Process, approved, number to be assigned.

Independent Papers on AGF and Associated Processes

Various King County, WA Reports, one of which is excerpted below.

King County's assessment of AGF Pilot Plant at Renton Facility

National Pork Producers Council--Their consulting engineer assessed our solution as the best.

Water Environment Research Foundation, Biosolids Management: Evaluation of Innovative Processes, Project 96-REM-1, 1998