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Energy integrated farm system: University of Nebraska Field Laboratory Farm

Technical Report ·
OSTI ID:7129222
The University of Nebraska Field Laboratory Farm, a swine facility with grain and soybean crops, is designed to conserve energy through energy integrated concepts including alcohol production, grain dryers, greenhouses, methane digestion, energy conservation crop practices, and a computer management system. The integrated energy concepts to be demonstrated are: methane production from swine wastes in an anaerobic methane generator; production of alcohol from sweet sorghum; computerized farm energy management and conservation system; use of solar energy and methane gas in grain drying, water heating, and space heating for swine production shelters; use of waste heat and CO/sub 2/ from the ethanol plant in the greenhouse system; energy conservation in crop production through conservation tillage, conservation of fertilizer, and irrigation scheduling; and energy conservation by optimized construction of swine units and control of ventilation and temperature.
Research Organization:
USDOE Office of Scientific and Technical Information, Oak Ridge, TN
OSTI ID:
7129222
Report Number(s):
DOE/TIC/EG-84/604; ON: TI88016710
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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