Methane
Recovery from Hog Waste Integrated with
Combined Heat & Power Technologies:
A Waste-to-Energy Workshop for Iowa's
Swine Industry
Sioux City, Iowa (November 3,
2004) and
Cedar
Rapids,
Iowa(November
4,
2004)
The Midwest CHP Application Center, in cooperation with the Iowa Department of Natural Resources, organized and implemented the two one-day workshops to inform and educate Iowa swine producers and animal science students on the issues and benefits of both methane recovery from hog waste and the integration of methane recovery with CHP.
The workshops were sponsored by:
- US Department
of Energy, Midwest Regional Office
- Iowa Department
of Natural Resources
- Iowa Agriculture
Innovation Center
- Iowa Energy Center
- Iowa Pork Producers
Association
- Iowa Farm Bureau
- Kirkwood Community
College
- Western Iowa
Tech Community College
- Alliant Energy
- Iowa State University
- Midwest CHP Application
Center
The workshops were organized to address Anaerobic Digester technology in the morning session, followed by an afternoon session focused on the integration of the Biogas generated from the digestion process into a CHP system. The benefits of such a system include:
- Odor Control
- Nutrient Management
- Energy Recovery
- Electric Generation
and Heat Recovery for Farm Operations
The workshops also included a session dedicated to where and how the hog producers could obtain both technical and financial assistance when applying these technologies to their farm operation.
Gary Nowakowski (DOE Midwest Regional Office) provided the opening remarks for the workshop, welcoming the attendees and urging them to learn and ask questions of the experts assembled for this event. John Cuttica (MAC) was the workshop moderator and also presented the concept of CHP and how it can be integrated into the swine industry. Steffen Mueller (MAC) was instrumental in the planning of the workshops, preparing four case studies / project profiles, and also participated as a speaker, presenting the Business Case for the integration of Anaerobic Digester and CHP technologies. Representatives from leading companies experienced with methane recovery and CHP technologies, along with representatives from Senator Tom Harkin's office, Iowa State University, the Iowa DNR, Alliant Energy, and the Iowa Energy Center provided presentations and engaged in questions and answer sessions with the audience.
The workshops were well attended. Over 100 representatives from the various segments of the Iowa swine industry participated in the workshops. The attendees included hog producers, packing plants, students, and equipment manufacturers.
The material presented
at the workshops can be found below in PDF format. They are arranged
in the order in which they were presented at the workshops.
| |
Workshop
Agenda (pdf
29Kb) |
Iowa
Manure Management Planning
(pdf 5,431kb)
Gene Tinker, Animal Feeding
Operations Coordinator, IDNR |
Digester Basics (pdf
496kb)
Dr. Robert Burns, Iowa State University
|
Animal Waste Becomes a Newable
Energy Source (pdf
2,272kb)
Bob Hoffland, Hoffland Environmental,
Inc. |
Biogas/CHP
Workshop From What's Left Behind
(pdf
201kb)
Duane Hanusa, Hanusa Revewable Energy
|
14
Successful Swine Digesters (pdf
1,511kb)
Mark Moser, RCM Digesters
|
Combined
Heat & Power - The Concept
(pdf
455kb)
John Cuttica, Midwest CHP Applicatoin
Center
|
Technical Integration of CHP
with Digesters (pdf
160kb)
Bob Hoffland, Hoffland Environmental,
Inc. |
Methane
Recovery from Hog Waste CHP
Workshop (pdf
481kb)
Jan Scott, Unison Solutions
|
Methane Recovery from Hog Waste
Integrated with Combined Heat and
Power Technologies (pdf
109kb)
Dr. Steffen Mueller, Midwest CHP
Application Center
|
Selling Electricity from Biogas
Projects (pdf
3,108kb)
Bill Johnson, Manager of Agricultural
Services, Alliant Energy
|
Alternate
Energy Revolving Loan Program
(AERLP) (pdf
361kb)
Bill Haman, Alternative Energy
Revolving Loan Program Manager,
Iowa Energy Center |
A Discussion of Overcoming the
Financial and Legal Constraints
of Renewable Energy Applications
(pdf 893kb)
Kelley Myers, Grant and Budget
Coordinator, Energy and Waste Management
Bureau, IDNR
|
Overview Midwest CHP Application
Center (pdf
105kb)
John Cuttica, Midwest CHP Application
Center |
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