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Title: Minnesota Agri-Power Project. Quarterly report, January--March, 1998

Technical Report ·
DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/656593· OSTI ID:656593

The Minnesota Valley Alfalfa Producers propose to build an alfalfa processing plant integrated with an advanced power plant system at the Granite Falls, Minnesota industrial park to provide 75 MW of base load electric power and a competitively priced source of value added alfalfa based products. This project utilizes air blown fluidized bed gasification technology to process alfalfa stems and another biomass to produce a hot, clean, low heating value gas that will be used in a gas turbine. Exhaust heat from the gas turbine will be used to generate steam to power a steam turbine and provide steam for the processing of the alfalfa leaf into a wide range of products including alfalfa leaf meal, a protein source for livestock. This progress report describes feedstock testing, feedstock supply system, performance guarantees, sales contracts, environmental permits, education, environment, economy, and project coordination and control.

Research Organization:
Minnesota Valley Alfalfa Producers (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE Assistant Secretary for Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, Washington, DC (United States)
DOE Contract Number:
FC36-96GO10147
OSTI ID:
656593
Report Number(s):
DOE/GO/10147-T3; ON: DE98007364; TRN: AHC29817%%149
Resource Relation:
Other Information: PBD: May 1998
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English