Energy integrated farm system: University of Nebraska Field Laboratory Farm
Technical Report
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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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FARMS
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