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Gasification Utilization Best Practices - initiating September 2008 with a
portion of the funding from the Natural Resources Conservation Services
through a Conservation Innovation Grant.
Project Purpose: To determine a best practice method for utilizing
gasification of poultry litter in a broiler operation; including producing chilled
air. In an effort to maximize the existing gasification system for improved bird
health and environmental benefit and to utilize the energy from the farm’s
poultry litter, an adsorption chiller will be coupled to the existing gasification
system. It will work through the air control system to utilize heat from
gasification of poultry litter to produce chilled air. Bert Bock, Ph.D. will
evaluate the ash for economic and environmental benefits.
Benefits of the project will include reduced nutrient loading as more litter is
gasified to provide constant temperature and reduced relative humidity
throughout much of the year; evaluation of the ash for best economic and
environmental benefit; air emissions data regarding ammonia emissions; and a
best practice model that should encourage transferability of the technology.
Because this project is based on an existing CIG-funded project, it offers the
ability to take that project to the next logical step to maximize the previously
funded technology as it proceeds toward commercialization. In effect all that
was learned from the past project and areas that yet need to be explored are
encompassed in phase 2. The benefits and knowledge from both phases will
be transferred as a best practice method to the poultry industry for adoption
consideration. The acceptance of this technology and method will greatly
benefit the environment, especially in areas of greatest conservation concerns,
such as the Chesapeake Bay Watershed where the project is located.
portion of the funding from the Natural Resources Conservation Services
through a Conservation Innovation Grant.
Project Purpose: To determine a best practice method for utilizing
gasification of poultry litter in a broiler operation; including producing chilled
air. In an effort to maximize the existing gasification system for improved bird
health and environmental benefit and to utilize the energy from the farm’s
poultry litter, an adsorption chiller will be coupled to the existing gasification
system. It will work through the air control system to utilize heat from
gasification of poultry litter to produce chilled air. Bert Bock, Ph.D. will
evaluate the ash for economic and environmental benefits.
Benefits of the project will include reduced nutrient loading as more litter is
gasified to provide constant temperature and reduced relative humidity
throughout much of the year; evaluation of the ash for best economic and
environmental benefit; air emissions data regarding ammonia emissions; and a
best practice model that should encourage transferability of the technology.
Because this project is based on an existing CIG-funded project, it offers the
ability to take that project to the next logical step to maximize the previously
funded technology as it proceeds toward commercialization. In effect all that
was learned from the past project and areas that yet need to be explored are
encompassed in phase 2. The benefits and knowledge from both phases will
be transferred as a best practice method to the poultry industry for adoption
consideration. The acceptance of this technology and method will greatly
benefit the environment, especially in areas of greatest conservation concerns,
such as the Chesapeake Bay Watershed where the project is located.
Frye Poultry - Gasification of Broiler Manure
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