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The package Guide to Developing a Process Control System for a Composting Facility developed by the Recycled Organics Unit is now available.

This package comprises a series of fifteen easy-to-read information sheets.

An updated Third Edition of this publication is now available to download for free.

At the core of a good processing operation is a process control or management system, used to ensure that processing is conducted in such a way that the end-product consistently conforms with pre-designed specifications.

A process control system uses procedures to control a given process whenever their absence would prejudice product quality, jeopardise worker safety or harm the environment and public health.

The key steps in designing an efficient process control system for a range of different types of composting facilities have been published by the Recycled Organics Unit in this publication.

The package Guide to Developing a Process Control System for a Composting Facility consists of fifteen information sheets as follows:

  Preface, Introduction and TOC to Guide to Developing a Process Control System for a Composting Facility
  Information Sheet No. 2-1: What is a process control system?
  Information Sheet No. 2-2: Examples of process control systems for composting facilities
  Information Sheet No. 2-3: Mapping a process control system
  Information Sheet No. 2-4: Selecting and collecting feedstocks
  Information Sheet No. 2-5: Receival
  Information Sheet No. 2-6: Preparing the mix
  Information Sheet No. 2-7: Composing
  Information Sheet No. 2-8: Curing
  Information Sheet No. 2-9: Screening
  Information Sheet No. 2-10: Preparing the final product
  Information Sheet No. 2-11: Quality testing during manufacturing and the final product
  Information Sheet No. 2-12: Storing the final product
  Information Sheet No. 2-13: Bagging the final product
  Information Sheet No. 2-14: Final product sale and use
  Information Sheet No. 2-15: Putting together your entire process control system