{"id":61,"date":"2012-06-15T06:19:15","date_gmt":"2012-06-15T13:19:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/services\/wastewater-treatment-plant\/?page_id=61"},"modified":"2012-06-19T09:54:55","modified_gmt":"2012-06-19T16:54:55","slug":"secondary-digester","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/services\/wastewater-treatment-plant\/secondary-digester\/","title":{"rendered":"Secondary Digester"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/services\/wastewater-treatment-plant\/files\/2012\/06\/DigesterFlame1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-62\" title=\"DigesterFlame1\" src=\"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/services\/wastewater-treatment-plant\/files\/2012\/06\/DigesterFlame1-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/services\/wastewater-treatment-plant\/files\/2012\/06\/DigesterFlame1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/services\/wastewater-treatment-plant\/files\/2012\/06\/DigesterFlame1.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A tank in which sludge is placed to allow decomposition by microorganisms.\u00a0 Digestion occurs under anaerobic conditions where NO free or dissolved oxygen is present.\u00a0 These microorganisms obtain their oxygen by breaking down chemical compounds that contain oxygen, such as sulfate (SO42-).\u00a0 Carbon dioxide (CO2) and methane (CH4) are the gaseous breakdown products produced from anaerobic digestion.\u00a0 A portion of the methane produced is reused to heat digesters and buildings while the excess is burned off in the methane waste burner.\u00a0 Upcoming projects are slated to make full use of this energy resource.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A tank in which sludge is placed to allow decomposition by microorganisms.\u00a0 Digestion occurs under anaerobic conditions where NO free or dissolved oxygen is present.\u00a0 These microorganisms obtain their oxygen by breaking down chemical compounds that contain oxygen, such as sulfate (SO42-).\u00a0 Carbon dioxide (CO2) and methane (CH4) are the gaseous breakdown products produced from<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-61","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/services\/wastewater-treatment-plant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/61","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/services\/wastewater-treatment-plant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/services\/wastewater-treatment-plant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/services\/wastewater-treatment-plant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/services\/wastewater-treatment-plant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/services\/wastewater-treatment-plant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/61\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yakimawa.gov\/services\/wastewater-treatment-plant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}