Not exact matches
The resulting innovations include a methane
digester, which converts cow waste into renewable energy; a carbon farming program, designed to measure and optimize carbon
capture; and an extensive water - reuse system, which recycles waste water from the Creamery.
The methane
digester on the Straus Organic Dairy Farm
captures methane in the digested manure from approximately 300 cows.
Other companies, like FuelCell Energy in Danbury, Conn., are
capturing the gas from anaerobic
digesters to be used in combined heat and power plants.
The Schrack family's anaerobic
digester is
capturing methane gas from cow manure.
Four years ago Duffy Connolly, owner of Burrows Hall Farm, approached Santee Cooper with the idea of building an anaerobic
digester that could
capture methane gas, naturally produced on his hog farm, and turn that methane into a fuel source for electricity.
The resulting innovations include a methane
digester, which converts cow waste into renewable energy; a carbon farming program, designed to measure and optimize carbon
capture; and an extensive water - reuse system, which recycles waste water from the Creamery.
The
digester expected to be operational at the Burrows Hall Farm by early this summer is the first in South Carolina, although Santee Cooper is already
capturing methane from landfills to generate power.
Reduced food waste restricts available organic waste feedstocks, impacting composting, waste - to - energy, large - scale methane
digesters and landfill methane
capture in the Energy Sector.
The US Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory and the sustainable energy NGO Energy Vision released two case studies assessing the results of projects that were among the first to produce Renewable Compressed Natural Gas (R - CNG) vehicle fuel by using anaerobic
digesters to
capture the biogases from decomposing organic waste....
It also
captures the heat produced when the methane is burned for the turbines and uses it to warm the
digester tanks.
The methane
digester on the Straus Organic Dairy Farm
captures methane in the digested manure from approximately 300 cows.
Methane recovery - Methane emissions, e.g., from oil or gas wells, coal beds, peat bogs, gas transmission pipelines, landfills, or anaerobic
digesters, are
captured and used as a fuel or for some other economic purpose (e.g., chemical feedstock).
Project type: Farm Power What they do: Manure from the dairy is fed into an anaerobic
digester where the methane is
captured and used for energy production.
State regulators want more farmers to reduce emissions with methane
digesters, which
capture methane from manure in large storage tanks and convert the gas into electricity.