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Digester's Construction
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Digester's
Operation
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NYSERDA's
6th Innovations in Agriculture
Poster
NYSERDA's
7th Innovations in Agriculture
Poster
Sampling, Testing, & Evaluation Plan
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Anaerobic digestion can
minimize odor, generate biogas, and allow more effective nutrient use by
crops. To realize the potential energy, environmental, and cost saving
benefits of anaerobic digestion, farmers need information to evaluate
the energy, labor, land, and equipment costs.
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The anaerobic digester project
at Morrisville
State College involves the design and construction of a
hardtop plug-flow digester. The digester will biologically
treat dairy manure and other organic waste generated on campus to
produce a stable effluent with improved physical, chemical, and
biological characteristics. In the system, biogas (about 60% methane)
will be produced, captured, and combusted to generate heat and power
using a 50kW engine generator set. A boiler that runs on either biogas
or propane will also be used to heat water during the startup phase of
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The methane digester system at
Morrisville State
College is sized to treat manure from over 350 milking cows and generate
about 300,000 kWh per year from the recovered biogas. The project is being
funded by NYSERDA and
the New York State
Department of Agriculture and Markets, with additional support through
U.S. Representative John McHugh, and from the
U.S. Dept. of Energy’s Office
in Golden, Colorado. Construction on the project started in August 2005 and is
expected to be completed in August 2006. The system will be started soon
thereafter.
The digester project at
Morrisville State
College will generate data on the effectiveness of an internal
combustion engine for converting biogas to energy; will track and evaluate
project data, costs, and benefits; and will use the digester system in
Morrisville State College’s academic programs to transfer information to
others considering anaerobic digestion systems.
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