Choosing the correct trailer to carry AD Plant feedstock at 44 tonnes on UK roads is not simple. You can use either a walking floor trailer to carry the volume required for biomass feedstocks such as maize or silage and a watertight tipping trailer for the waste foods. The concept of Anaerobic Digestion is as it sounds. The industrial process is to create the perfect environment for bacteria to feed and to release the sunlight energy contained in the molecular bonds of feedstock. Basically reproducing the stomach environment of say a cow on a large scale. As the bacteria and fungi rejoice in the warm mash they release gases such as methane that are piped away and burned to generate electricity. Once eaten the wet slurry of digestate is piped away and used as fertiliser to go back onto the fields. A D Plants are now making a significant contribution to the renewable energy sector.
The 17 millon tonnes of feedstock moved annually in the UK is increasing. Importantly the distances from field to AD Plant is increasing and becoming a more complex logisitcal exercise. Where previously potentially illegal weights carried by agricultural tractor and farm trailer might service the movement of agricultural feedstocks as the industry matures professionals are moving to HGV truck and trailer combinations and legal masses. These payloads require larger volume trailers beyond the reach of tipping trailers - the walking floor trailer comes into play.
Newton Trailers current first choice trailer for the transport of AD Plant Feedstock is:
Recommended First Choice Trailer Knapen Agricultural Walking Floor with Liquid Bag Interior for removal of the digestate.
Recommended Second Choice Trailer Knapen 130 cuyd Walking Floor
Recommended Sales Options: Automatic Sheet System; Automatic Door; VWS Weigher and TASCC logger
Recommended Parts
Seasonal Hire: AD Plants need feedstock year round
Tascc Product: Yes for biomass & No for food wastes
Product Density: 600 kgs/m3
Trailer Volume: 70 - 130 cuyd Bagged volume: 26 cu meter digestate slurry
Region: UK & Eire
17 millon tonnes of Anaerobic Plant Feedstock Transported Annually in the UK; 630 production UK centers
5.2 million tonnes of crop and crop waste transported to AD Plants per annum in the UK
6 million tonnes of food wastes transported per annum
Anaerobic Plant Feedstock biomass feedstocks are a seasonal crop in the UK. Sunlight and plant photosynthesis lock Carbon Carbon bond energies into molecules. Humans kindly transport these molecules to large plants and employ bacteria hidden from oxygen to crack open these molecules releasing gases that we burn in the presence of oxygen to suddenly release all of those sunlight stores. Alternatively similar energy stored in food waste molecules can also be cracked open in a similar way. Food wastes and the potentially dangerous viruses, bacteria and fungi that inhabit them are neutralised in this process - thereby cleaning up the waste from household refused foods and industrial waste foods and byproducts. Even the energy from a banana skin is sufficient to power an Apple Iphone 17 twice!! Well done Caribbean sunlight!!
A trend apparent in silage, maize and biomass transport is to use the improved payloads and volumes of the walking floor trailer. Avoiding the small volumes and dangerous instability of tipping trailers. So field chasing agricultural floors running at 44 tonne on the roads is really the only way to go. Higher speed Powerspeed floors mean discharge times of 4 minutes help efficiency during the harvest hiatus.
The semi - liquid digestate from the AD Plant process needs removal and manufacture into fertilizer and or transport to field. New Knapen walking floors transporting inbound biomass and outbound bagged digestate are just starting to enter the UK market following on the trend seen in Europe for efficient two way logistics. Knapen Walking Floors and Exeler Liquid X Liners carry 26 cu meter of bagged digestate with onboard pumps. They take approximately 8 minutes to charge or discharge. Arguably they are a game changer in AD Plant load handling.
If you want to learn more about feedstock this is a good link: Click Here
Biomass grows in the fields. With 640 scale AD Plants in the UK almost any arable farm may be a supplier. Larger scale A D Plants will draw biomass from a 40km radius. Eventually distance travelled defeats the value of the biomass. Food wastes are produced in urban centers. Each municipality is tasked with handling their own household food wastes. Commercial food wastes may even be handled by an in house AD Plant. Animal manures, poultry litter, pig slurry, brewery wastes, vegetable wastes, coffee wastes, tinned wastes etc will all require particular solutions. Many will require watertight discharge solutions such as watertight walking floors for volume products; watertight tipping trailers for more dense wastes. Newton Trailers has many of the answers or is able to give you expert advice on which trailer is best for your mix.
Anaerobic Plant FeedstockSong: insert MP3 here.
Anaerobic Plant Feedstock/DigestateTrailer Option: Two transport is the Holy Grail of any logistics operation. Knapen Trailers work with Exeler of Germany to produce a trailer that will take your outbound biomass and return with 26 tonnes of digestate. Newton work closely with Exeler to produce high quality products using industry standard components for reliability.
Newton Trailers supply 44 tonne UK road going trailers. Commercially walking floors made by Knapen Krone or agricultural chasers by companies such as Fliegl have the tyre sizes to move on top of fields. It will not really be used to run from Farm to Processing Plant as the payload on the public highway over distance has legal complications: CLICK HERE to go to Fliegl Agricultural
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If you really enjoy your work and love our trailers then you could indulge yourself or perhaps that special person in your life with a sugar beet T shirt. Follow the link: CLICK HERE
Why not Ferment those waste tomatoes yourself? - keep the energy for you and your family and reduce the waste heading to your local Anaerobic Digestion Plant: Click Here
| Best Match | Options | Volume | Payload | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| New | STAS Watertight Tipping Trailer | 62 CuYds (47.4m3) | 29750kg | |
| Also See | New Knapen Agricultural Moving Floor Trailer | Change to Hydraulic Rear Door from Barn Doors on Agricultural Trailer | 90 CuYds (68.8m3) | 28475kg |
| Also See | New Knapen Agricultural Moving Floor Trailer | Change to Hydraulic Rear Door from Barn Doors on Agricultural Trailer | 96 CuYds (73.4m3) | 28475kg |
| Also See | New Knapen Biomass Moving Floor Trailer | 140 CuYds (107.0m3) | 27770kg | |
| Also See | New Knapen Agricultural Moving Floor Trailer | Change to Hydraulic Rear Door from Barn Doors on Agricultural Trailer | 101 CuYds (77.2m3) | 27500kg |
