Aerated Composting Systems Webinar (8/20/13)

Aerated Static Pile Composting - Applications and Advancements
This webinar focuses on expanding beyond the basics of leaf and yard waste composting into food residuals, manures, biosolids and other challenging materials. It will also discuss how a turned windrow system is converted to an aerated static pile system to improve operating efficiencies, reduce off-site impacts from odors and dramatically increase processing capacity. In addition, this webinar provides an excellent opportunity for regulators to better understand ASP Composting as an emerging technology to decrease emissions of volatile organic compounds, ammonia and greenhouse gases.
Presenter: Peter Moon, P.E., President/ Principal Engineer, Price-Moon Enterprises, Inc./ O2 Compost Systems
Topic Subject Matter -- Aerated Static Pile Composting
Technical Complexity -- Moderate/ High

[@dennisseeker36]

thanks for sharing- i am working on starting a worm farm ( commercial size) and this seems like a great method for me to precompost before feeding to worms i see the you tube guy "the urban worm farmer " does this but did not give so much detail thanks!

[@firatyildirim2288]

that was very helpfull, thabk you for sharing. Can forced air method can be used in vermicomposting?

[@johnedston]

It would probably cause your bin to get too hot for your worms.

[@Packgammon]

Not sure as the air usually acts like a coolant. But lets say it gets too hot: Maybe with the air some micro ice cubes could be injected. Then the worms could enjoy ice-cold, delicious manure slurry cocktails.

[@juanjosepenarodriguez1803]

no

[@bobkundinger8065]

Absolutely NO forced air, not good to jack their temperatures up and down, in addition to drying their beds out,-- foolish thought, get rind of it now. Now you feel better. Namaste

[@GENcELL2014]

The reason for an aerated static pile(ASP) is to first rapidly break down and condition organic material into compost, that compost can then be the feed stock for worm bins to create vermicompost. In a home setting ASP will let you make the same amount of vermicompost but in a smaller footprint and in shorter time frames. So yes it's actually a potentially very impactful method for vermicomposting setups productivity but you're not using ASP methods on worm bins, it's being used to first rapidly break down organic material in a pile. You'd be going from, Organic material->worm bins to Organic material->ASP->worm bins

[@JorgePicco]

Wait a minute! @20:10 are you saying air is introduced to LOWER the temperature?

[@robindegu7294]

this is inquired about towards the end q and a as well. with the added consequence of dehydrating the pile as well. i'm curious whether switching to a humidified air source for cooling purposes would resolve that.

[@JorgePicco]

Just casually finding out that every aerated static core is anaerobic