Onsite Wastewater Treatment and Process Water Recycling Systems for Ag Dairy Farms

The field study shows that the floating bead filtration technology has the potential to reduce freshwater usage from 56 to 308 acre feet per year, electric energy usage for pumping from 6.2 to 41.5 megawatt-hours (MWh) per year, anthropogenic carbon dioxide equivalent (CO2e) from 0.57 to 3.84 metric tons per year and 1.04 metric tons of methane (1.8 percent of baseline) in terms of greenhouse gas reduction from the manure treatment for the project site.