Data on the thermal method of odour elimination implemented in the Polish agro-food consortium

• Main Authors: Zygmunt Kowalski, Agnieszka Makara
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Elsevier 2021-06-01
• Series: Data in Brief
• Subjects: Circular economy; Meat waste; Meat-bone meal; Recycling; Odour elimination; Thermal method
• Online Access: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352340921002717

The data presented in this article are related to the research paper entitled “The circular economy model used in the Polish agro-food consortium: a case study” published in the Journal of Cleaner Production 284 (2021) 124751. The utilisation of meat waste for the production of meat-bone meal is the Farmutil's consortium main activity. The Oxidor system was developed for the combustion of all the odour emitted from meat-bone meal production. This improved the relationship of consortium with the public. Flow-sheet of the unit for thermal oxidation of odour, scheme and image of the thermo-oxidator were presented. The steam produced in the Oxidor system is recycled and re-used for meat-bone meal production. This is an example of new organisational solutions in circular economy originating from a physical flow concept in which energy flows are used as a result of closed-loop recycling.