Sentences with phrase «manure digester»

NativeEnergy helped fund improvements to a manure digester that powered the Noblehurst Dairy Farm with renewable energy.

Following our success with manure digester projects on the Schrack and Dovan family farms, Fred and Cindy England ramped up a manure digester on their 700 - cow family dairy farm in Williamsburg, Pennsylvania, with upfront funding from NativeEnergy.

The initial market for the new process is food waste digesters and farm operations, especially manure digesters.

Not exact matches

Innovation in our food system: methane digesters make electricity from cow manure.

The methane digester makes electricity from the manure of Straus Creamery cows.

As a result, an anaerobic digester was built in 2008 as a non-profit organization that provides compost for the Werkhoven Farm (as well as donated to the community), produces energy for over 300 customers in the Puget Sound and valuable biosolids while reducing manure applications to the soil.

The methane digester on the Straus Organic Dairy Farm captures methane in the digested manure from approximately 300 cows.

To put that into perspective, if two - thirds of California dairies added methane digesters to their manure management practices, the reduction in emissions would be the equivalent of taking about one million passenger vehicles off the road, according to Straus Family Creamery's calculations.

The governor also announced plans for new incentives for farmers to increase the use of «anaerobic digesters,» which helps turn waste produced on farm — such as cow manure — into energy that farms can use.

Anaerobic digesters take those uncovered piles of sitting manure and place them in large covered tanks.

At the same time, private companies are exploring more innovative options, such as anaerobic digesters, which convert animal manure into methane that can run a generator.

Now a Danish team has analysed the various ways in which firms in that country treat pig manure and use it to generate electricity in systems such as anaerobic digesters or incinerators.

Environmental groups and researchers have long focused on controlling livestock emissions through the use of gas - trapping digesters that have the potential to convert manure methane into usable energy.

Kan believes current technology — lagoons for dairy manure management — could be upgraded to anaerobic digesters covered and mixed with biochar.

Perhaps instead of focusing on regulation and instead focusing on incenting positive behavior, we could get more digesters in place which would produce clean energy, reduce the amount of nitrogen and other nutrient pollution and provide farmers with another couple sources of revenue (electricity sales, fiber bedding sales (or savings) and increased fertilizer value of the liquid digestate as compared to raw manure.

Shortly after the startup of the farm's new high - efficiency milking facilities in 2002, Shawn Saylor began investigating the use of an anaerobic digester to improve their manure management system and control operating costs.

The digester is greatly reducing manure odor and pathogens and creating a safer organic fertilizer to apply to their fields.

The Schrack family's anaerobic digester is capturing methane gas from cow manure.

According to a calculation I performed for improvements in manure management and clean energy for cooking, one year's worth of digesters can over their lifetimes prevent 16 Mt of carbon dioxide - equivalent emissions.

The Pixley Biogas, LLC anaerobic digester facility produces biomethane from cow manure to replace the natural gas used to heat Calgren Renewable Fuels» ethanol vehicle fuel.

Project type: Farm Power What they do: An anaerobic digester turns manure into fuel for electricity or heat, as well as cow bedding for use on the farm and in the community.

Nitrogen or NPK is going to be recycled from livestock manure, from the biogas digester residues and the algae grown on it.

The farm's herd has grown to approximately 800 cows over the past two years — 730 milk cows, 125 dry cows, and 60 heifers are contributing manure to the digester.

Manure can be used to produce electricity by using anaerobic digesters to extract bioenergy (in the form of biogas).

Manure - only Exemption: Anaerobic digesters processing only manure and agricultural feedstocks do not require a DEP liManure - only Exemption: Anaerobic digesters processing only manure and agricultural feedstocks do not require a DEP limanure and agricultural feedstocks do not require a DEP license.

In general, anaerobic digesters accepting only manure are not required to obtain additional water discharge permits.

Codigestion: Anaerobic digesters processing organic feedstocks in addition to manure may be required to perform additional screening of either the anaerobic digester influent or effluent.

Manure - only Exemption: Anaerobic digesters processing only manure do not require solid waste peManure - only Exemption: Anaerobic digesters processing only manure do not require solid waste pemanure do not require solid waste permits.

State - specific Thresholds: Michigan DEQ generally exempts manure - based anaerobic digesters from air permitting requirements.

Manure - only exemption: Anaerobic digesters that accept manure, bedding, crop residues and farm waste do not need Part 360 peManure - only exemption: Anaerobic digesters that accept manure, bedding, crop residues and farm waste do not need Part 360 pemanure, bedding, crop residues and farm waste do not need Part 360 permits.

Although not specific to farms with anaerobic digesters, farms producing or using manure require a Nutrient Management Plan.

This does not apply to manure - only digesters.

Codigestion: MPCA determines the need for a solid waste permit on a case - by - case basis for anaerobic digesters that process manure and other organic feedstocks.

Offsite Waste Acceptance: Anaerobic digesters processing offsite feedstocks, including only manure, require a DEP license.

During its 20 - year lifetime, the Dovan digester project will keep an estimated 7,000 tons of CO2 from being emitted by fossil - fueled power plants, and it will prevent fugitive methane from manure storage equivalent to an estimated 22,000 tons of CO2.

In early 2006, the Wanners began to improve their manure management by constructing increased manure storage capacity, manure solids separation, and an anaerobic digester.

The digester and generator were destroyed, although the farm has since covered a second lagoon to which it is diverting all of the farm's manure, and it is flaring the methane produced.

The methane digester on the Straus Organic Dairy Farm captures methane in the digested manure from approximately 300 cows.

The digester then converts the manure to renewable energy and nutrient - rich compost.

And a plan to provide the Farmers Cow dairy cooperative with financing for an anaerobic digester to turn cow manure into energy became only a loan guarantee, forcing the cooperative to find the funding elsewhere.

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.