Could Manure Heat & Power Farms?

CattleNetwork.com
10/17/2008 9:27:00 AM

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. - Manure from confined livestock could someday be used as a value-added bioenergy fuel for on-farm heating and power, according to a news release from the USDA's Agricultural Research Service (ARS).

Scientists studying this approach say this could benefit U.S. livestock producers, who need environmentally friendly ways to manage the manure from about 96.7 million cattle and 67.7 million hogs and pigs.

ARS engineers at the ARS Coastal Plains Soil, Water and Plant Research Center in South Carolina are studying how to use a technique called wet gasification to turn wet manure slurry into energy-rich gases and produce water.

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