Wisconsin Does Biogas
Oct. 8th, 2008 07:50 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
webfarmerLatest Renewable Energy World e-mail noted that Wisconsin has quite the active renewable energy program. Much of this can be noted on the web site called Focus on Energy. The latest tidbit from that site is a new case study work on biogas.
Biogas is gas that comes from keeping manure or other organic materials of similar composition in an air-free state and at a proper temperature. Bacteria that like that kind of living then convert part of that material into a methane rich gas that can be cleaned up and burned like natural gas. Like natural gas, it can be burned to generate electricity at peak demand periods which brings and extra value to it. If you can do that in a co-generation (aka combined heat and power or CHP) plant, then you're kind of triple dipping in the use by using the "waste" heat of combustion for electrical generation for space or water heating.
Agricultural Biogas Casebook 2008 [pdf] - Focus on Energy
Biogas is gas that comes from keeping manure or other organic materials of similar composition in an air-free state and at a proper temperature. Bacteria that like that kind of living then convert part of that material into a methane rich gas that can be cleaned up and burned like natural gas. Like natural gas, it can be burned to generate electricity at peak demand periods which brings and extra value to it. If you can do that in a co-generation (aka combined heat and power or CHP) plant, then you're kind of triple dipping in the use by using the "waste" heat of combustion for electrical generation for space or water heating.
Agricultural Biogas Casebook 2008 [pdf] - Focus on Energy
