{"id":7810,"date":"2017-04-17T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-04-17T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arvanitis.gr\/can-be-electric-current-from-whey-yes-it-can\/"},"modified":"2017-04-17T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2017-04-17T00:00:00","slug":"can-be-electric-current-from-whey-yes-it-can","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arvanitis.gr\/en\/can-be-electric-current-from-whey-yes-it-can\/","title":{"rendered":"Can be electric current from whey; Yes, it can!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Since 2016 the Fromagerie ARVANITI contributes actively to the protection of the environment,<\/p>\n<p>through its collaboration with Vorioelladiki Aeforia SA,<\/p>\n<p>for the collection, handling and recycling of the whey residue.<\/p>\n<p>The recycling plant is located just 7km from the dairy and produces Biogas every day.<\/p>\n<p>The produced biogas is a combustible material consisting of 58% methane and 14% carbon dioxide, and its combustion provides electricity of 1MWatt power to the country electric network.<\/p>\n<p>On a daily basis, the trucks of Vorioelladiki trucks load up to 40 tons<\/p>\n<p>of whey residue from the dairy and transport it to the unit for recycling.<\/p>\n<p>Upon processing, up to 6000 cubic meters of biogas are produced,<\/p>\n<p>which finally deliver up to 120 kWatt of electrical power on a daily basis.<\/p>\n<p>The residual liquid residue (70%) is used as a fertilizer.<\/p>\n<p>Greece is still far behind of the average of the European Union countries in<\/p>\n<p>recycling of the industrial waste. It is characteristic that in Greece<\/p>\n<p>only 5 biogas recycling companies operate, while in Germany some 10,000.<\/p>\n<p>Monopoly practices and delays in payments as the country electric company is sole buyer<\/p>\n<p>of electricity and also the difficult economic environment are the main problems<\/p>\n<p>that recycling professionals face.<\/p>\n<p>The Fromagerie ARVANITI, however, respecting the natural environment and promoting the use<\/p>\n<p>of alternative, clean energy sources, has set as a stable pillar of its operation<\/p>\n<p>the recycling of the residues on a permanent basis and is promoting the green energy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since 2016 the Fromagerie ARVANITI contributes actively to the protection of the environment, through its collaboration with Vorioelladiki Aeforia SA, for the collection, handling and recycling of the whey residue. The recycling plant is located just 7km from the dairy and produces Biogas every day. The produced biogas is a combustible material consisting of 58% [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1034,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[139],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7810","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arvanitis.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7810","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arvanitis.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arvanitis.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arvanitis.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arvanitis.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7810"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arvanitis.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7810\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arvanitis.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1034"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arvanitis.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arvanitis.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arvanitis.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}