quasar President Mel Kurtz joined representatives from the Battelle Institute and the NASA Glenn Research Center in a discussion of "Biomass to Energy - An Emergy Industry" presented by NorTech on December 14, 2009 from 5:30 - 7:30 at the Great Lakes Science Center Auditorium in Cleveland, Ohio. View the Presentation
It starts with a choice - In the face of rising energy prices and increasing agricultural regulations, the opportunity to recycle energy and reduce odors while creating soil amendments and high quality fertilizer can make sense to many farmers. These renewable resources can become a source of additional revenue for your farm.
quasar’secoFARMsystem 550 is a small scale (550,000 gallon) model of our larger ecoCITYsystem2250 that operates at municipal wastewater treatment plants. It has been designed keeping the needs of a farmer in mind. We have based our calculations on Holstein dairy cows - but our process can apply to farms focused on hogs, crops and other sources of agricultural waste.
Manure
# of Holstein
Food Waste
Biogas/Day
Electric
Wet Tons/Day
Cows
(MMBtu)
kWh/Day
54.0
1,300
0
35.2
3,921
58.1
1,400
0
37.9
4,222
62.3
1,500
0
40.6
4,524
66.4
1,600
0
43.3
4,825
70.6
1,700
0
46.0
5,127
74.7
1,800
0
48.7
5,428
78.9
1,900
0
51.5
5,730
83.0
2,000
0
54.2
6,032
87.2
2,100
0
56.9
6,333
91.3
2,200
0
59.6
6,635
95.5
2,300
0
62.3
6,936
*Information in the chart above is based on scrape manure collection.
Our process is versatile - smaller farms with lower daily manure yields will have excess capacity available in the ecoFARMsystem. In these situations,quasar can pursue outside sources of biomass to increase your energy generation and your return on investment.
