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
quasar energy group is introducing this renewable energy technology to Ohio. In 2008 quasar relocated its Engineering & Laboratory Offices to The Ohio State University’s Agricultural Research and Development Center (OARDC) campus in Wooster, Ohio, to collaborate with the largest university agbioscience research center in the nation.
This private public partnership combines agricultural and biological research with an emerging industry in Ohio. Together, we can build a new service and component manufacturing industry that will bring new green collar jobs to Ohio. The quasar/OARDC relationship has been praised by The Wooster Daily Record for being “the first piece of the BioHio puzzle.”
quasar and OARDC have plans to build a high-solids Farm Digester in Wooster. The Wooster plant has been designed to manage biomass in the forms of manure, crops and foodwaste from local sources. The Farm Digester is a small-scale version of quasar’s Industrial Digester which has processed Akron, Ohio’s municipal solid waste since 2007. quasar is beginning construction on a similar industrial facility in Columbus, Ohio in the Spring of 2009.
The quasar/OARDC relationship can be the first step in building a new clean industry in Ohio.
The building on the right is quasar’s Laboratory facility at the OARDC Wooster campus. The laboratory is home to eight pilot scale anaerobic digesters.
