On-farm anaerobic digester and fuel-alcohol plant. Final report
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.
- Research Organization:
- Southern Illinois Univ., Edwardsville (USA). Dept. of Civil Engineering
- OSTI ID:
- 5164479
- Report Number(s):
- PB-88-147947/XAB
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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AGRICULTURAL WASTES
ALCOHOL FUELS
ALKANES
ANAEROBIC DIGESTION
BIOCONVERSION
DIGESTION
DOCUMENT TYPES
ENERGY SOURCES
ENERGY SYSTEMS
FARMS
FUELS
HYDROCARBONS
IEUS
MANAGEMENT
METHANE
ORGANIC COMPOUNDS
ORGANIC WASTES
PROCESSING
PRODUCTION
PROGRESS REPORT
SYNTHETIC FUELS
WASTE MANAGEMENT
WASTE PROCESSING
WASTES