Abstract: An apparatus for production of a biogas by anaerobic digestion of organic material, the apparatus comprising: a digester chamber defining: a gas generating zone and a gas collecting zone. A biogas outlet is defined in the gas collecting zone, and one or more nozzles is/are arranged to spray a gas cooling liquid into the gas accommodated in the gas collecting zone so as to cool the gas. A collecting member is arranged in the gas collecting zone to collect the gas cooling liquid when sprayed from the one or more nozzles towards the collecting member so as to prevent the gas cooling liquid from entering the organic material. The collecting member is arranged to cause the collected gas cooling liquid to flow into a liquid based safety valve.

Abstract: A waste treatment system comprises a first heat exchanger positioned before one or more reactors. The reactors discharge treated sludge to a second heat exchanger. The first and second heat exchangers share a heat transfer medium wherein the heat from the treated sludge is transferred to the incoming sludge. The treated sludge is cooled to reach an optimal temperature range before entry into a digester. The system also is adapted to allow a pipe cleaning device or “pig” to clean the heat exchangers by being forced through the heat exchangers by pressurized and pasteurized wastewater.

Abstract: A method and an apparatus for biological purification of waste water by the activated sludge method, whereby the waste water is continuously passed through several treatment zones in which the waste water is successively subjected to nitrification and denitrification. The treatment zones are arranged circularly around a supply zone for waste water, whereby the supply zone is alternatingly connected with one of the treatment zones, and optionally a clarification zone for dividing the treated waste water into a water fraction and a sludge fraction.

Abstract: A method and plant for the purification of polluted water by the activated sludge method is provided in that a mixture of polluted water and recycled sludge is subjected to biological treatments in at least two treatment zones, and maintaining for a period such conditions in one of the treatment zones that a sludge precipitation occurs therein, supplying in a subsequent period the mixture of polluted water and recycled sludge directly or indirectly to the zone which, during the preceding period, served as a sludge precipitation zone prior to further treatment thereof in one or more treatment zones, and passing the treated water to a permanent clarification zone and separating it into a water fraction and a sludge fraction, at least a part of the sludge fraction being recycled and mixed with polluted water.

Abstract: A method of monitoring short-term and long-term deformation changes in a geological space and predicting geodynamic events in a region, such as earthquakes, landslides, dilatations and subsidence events, which includes the steps of performing measurements of one or more hydrosphere parameters using a network of observation wells covering the region, calculating various mathematical parameters and preparing various diagrams, and using the diagrams prepared as a basis for detecting and predicting the time of a possible future geodynamic event.