Methane Recovery from Animal Manures: A Current Opportunities Casebook

Technical Report · Thu Dec 01 00:00:00 EST 1994

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/10114771· OSTI ID:10114771

Lusk, P.

One manure management system provides not only pollution prevention but also converts a manure management problem into a new profit center. Economic evaluations and case studies of operating systems indicate that the anaerobic digestion of livestock manures is a commercially-available bioconversion technology with considerable potential for providing profitable co-products including a cost-effective renewable fuel for livestock production operations. This Casebook examines some of the current opportunities for the recovery of methane from the anaerobic digestion of animal manures. The economic evaluations are based on engineering studies of digesters that generate electricity from the recovered methane. Regression models, which can be used to estimate digester cost and internal rate of return, are developed from the evaluations. Finally, anaerobic digestion has considerable potential beyond agribusiness. Examples of digesters currently employed by other industries are provided.

• Research Organization: National Renewable Energy Lab. (NREL), Golden, CO (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE)
• DOE Contract Number: AC36-08GO28308
• OSTI ID: 10114771
• Report Number(s): NREL/TP-421-7577; ON: DE95004003; BR: WM1020000; TRN: AHC29507%%63
• Resource Relation: Other Information: PBD: Dec 1994
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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