Sharing Data & Experiences

Share your GHG emissions data, calculations, experiences, baselines, and tracking. By sharing, the biosolids profession will improve understanding and consensus regarding best practices for GHG (carbon) accounting. This may lead to creating formal protocols for GHG emissions offsets and carbon trading.

Examples of using BEAM*2022…

Using BEAM*2022 to Quantify the GHG Benefits of Beneficial Use of Biosolids and Biogas  — Bay Area Biosolids Coalition, published 4/17/24.

Example of Use, constructed by Northern Tilth (Belfast, ME). Hypothetical comparison of common biosolids treatment and end use or disposal scenarios, demonstrating the use of BEAM*2022. September, 2022.

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Examples of using the original BEAM calculator model…

 

Capital Regional District (CRD), Victoria, BC, 2018

CRD biosolids are anaerobically digested, heat dried, and used as fuel in cement kilns.
https://www.crd.bc.ca/project/biosolids-beneficial-use-strategy

Download PDF of GHG estimates - See Appendix I (down the right side of webpage).

Energy Performance and Carbon Emissions Assessment and Monitoring Tool (ECAM), 2021

When the ECAM model was created for estimating emissions from municipal water and wastewater services, BEAM v1.1 was relied on for default values and calculations of net GHG emissions from solids (sludge) management scenarios.

BEAM v1.1 and ECAM benefit from the independent development and reviews brought by the teams and perspectives of the two projects.

ECAM resources - including constants and equations - are available at http://www.wacclim.org/ecam/.

Examples of other GHG emissions accounting and reporting

Northeast Ohio Regional Sewer District

2014-2016 greenhouse gas emissions inventory

Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago

Greenhouse gas emissions from biosolids program, slide presentation, 2010

Communications Tools

Here, later on, you will find and share examples of graphics and other communications tools about biosolids management and climate change.

Coming soon…

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For now, here are examples we can point to: