Industrial Processes For Hot Composting

Hot composting or thermophilic composting is not as well known, because the process is more complex, and it does not often happen in backyard gardens, but rather in large industrial processes, breaking down a larger amount of materials, including materials that would be difficult to breakdown in the backyard composting process, to create huge amounts of compost.

The process involves heating the material up through industrial methods whereby a certain type of bacteria is able to thrive. The thermophilic bacteria are able to decompose the material into a humus state much faster than your average backyard composting method. This method produces much less greenhouse gases and pathogens.

There are various methods to drive the composting process, limited by the available technology and the local regulation and standards as required by government regulations in the local area.

The process involves high power fans pushing air through the materials to be composted and computers monitoring the results as different amount of moisture is applied.

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