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Title: Methane Recovery from Animal Manures: A Current Opportunities Casebook

Abstract

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.

Authors:
Publication Date:
Research Org.:
National Renewable Energy Lab. (NREL), Golden, CO (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE)
OSTI Identifier:
10114771
Report Number(s):
NREL/TP-421-7577
ON: DE95004003; BR: WM1020000; TRN: AHC29507%%63
DOE Contract Number:  
AC36-08GO28308
Resource Type:
Technical Report
Resource Relation:
Other Information: PBD: Dec 1994
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
09 BIOMASS FUELS; MANURES; ANAEROBIC DIGESTION; METHANE; BIOSYNTHESIS; REFUSE-FUELED POWER PLANTS; ECONOMIC ANALYSIS; DAIRY INDUSTRY; ON-SITE POWER GENERATION; WASTE MANAGEMENT; MEAT INDUSTRY; BIOMASS CONVERSION PLANTS; BIOREACTORS; FUEL SUBSTITUTION; SWINE; FOWL; EXPERIMENTAL DATA; anaerobic digestion; bioconversion; sustainable development; 090900; 320301; 320305; PROCESSING; ENERGY SOURCES; INDUSTRIAL WASTE MANAGEMENT

Citation Formats

Lusk, P. Methane Recovery from Animal Manures: A Current Opportunities Casebook. United States: N. p., 1994. Web. doi:10.2172/10114771.
Lusk, P. Methane Recovery from Animal Manures: A Current Opportunities Casebook. United States. https://doi.org/10.2172/10114771
Lusk, P. 1994. "Methane Recovery from Animal Manures: A Current Opportunities Casebook". United States. https://doi.org/10.2172/10114771. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/10114771.
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abstractNote = {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.},
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year = {Thu Dec 01 00:00:00 EST 1994},
month = {Thu Dec 01 00:00:00 EST 1994}
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