What is OLR?
sourced
Organic Loading Rate is how much organic matter (kg VS) is fed per cubic metre of digester per day. Overloading is the classic way to kill a digester: acid builds up faster than the methanogens can consume it, pH falls, and gas production collapses for weeks.
- Source
- 99pt5; PMC
- sourced
- Traceable to a named source.
- Level
- Practitioner — Operating numbers, ranges and failure modes.
Where this shows up while you build
This answer is attached to the controls it explains, so it appears beside them in the builder rather than only here.
Graded checkpoint
This is one of the claims most often got backwards. It appears in the graded path.
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