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Title: On-farm anaerobic digester and fuel-alcohol plant. Final report

Abstract

An anaerobic-digestion system, coupled with a fuel-alcohol plant, was constructed and set up on a southern Illinois farm as part of an integrated farm-energy system. The digester heating can be done using waste hot water from the alcohol plant and biogas from the digester can be used as fuel for the alcohol production. The anaerobic digestion system is made up of the following components; a hog finishing house with a manure pit; a solids handling pump to feed the manure; and a 13,000-gallon railroad tank car as the main digester vessel and pump to transfer effluent from the digester to a 150,000 gallon storage tank. The digester was operated for sufficient time to demonstrate the use of hot water in an automated digester temperature control system. Sufficient biogas was produced to demonstrate the use of biogas in a converted propane boiler.

Authors:
Publication Date:
Research Org.:
Southern Illinois Univ., Edwardsville (USA). Dept. of Civil Engineering
OSTI Identifier:
5164479
Report Number(s):
PB-88-147947/XAB
Resource Type:
Technical Report
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
09 BIOMASS FUELS; AGRICULTURAL WASTES; ANAEROBIC DIGESTION; ALCOHOL FUELS; PRODUCTION; FARMS; IEUS; ENERGY SOURCES; METHANE; PROGRESS REPORT; ALKANES; BIOCONVERSION; DIGESTION; DOCUMENT TYPES; ENERGY SYSTEMS; FUELS; HYDROCARBONS; MANAGEMENT; ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; ORGANIC WASTES; PROCESSING; SYNTHETIC FUELS; WASTE MANAGEMENT; WASTE PROCESSING; WASTES; 140504* - Solar Energy Conversion- Biomass Production & Conversion- (-1989); 090222 - Alcohol Fuels- Preparation from Wastes or Biomass- (1976-1989)

Citation Formats

Bengtson, H H. On-farm anaerobic digester and fuel-alcohol plant. Final report. United States: N. p., 1985. Web.
Bengtson, H H. On-farm anaerobic digester and fuel-alcohol plant. Final report. United States.
Bengtson, H H. 1985. "On-farm anaerobic digester and fuel-alcohol plant. Final report". United States.
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abstractNote = {An anaerobic-digestion system, coupled with a fuel-alcohol plant, was constructed and set up on a southern Illinois farm as part of an integrated farm-energy system. The digester heating can be done using waste hot water from the alcohol plant and biogas from the digester can be used as fuel for the alcohol production. The anaerobic digestion system is made up of the following components; a hog finishing house with a manure pit; a solids handling pump to feed the manure; and a 13,000-gallon railroad tank car as the main digester vessel and pump to transfer effluent from the digester to a 150,000 gallon storage tank. The digester was operated for sufficient time to demonstrate the use of hot water in an automated digester temperature control system. Sufficient biogas was produced to demonstrate the use of biogas in a converted propane boiler.},
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year = {Sun Dec 01 00:00:00 EST 1985},
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