Converting Manure Into Crude Oil
ThePigSite.com
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American
industrial agriculture is executed on an enormous scale. To look at
just one slice: More than 100 million head of hogs and pigs are
slaughtered in the United States every year. That's one hog for every
household in America.
…Swine manure, once considered a valuable natural fertilizer, has now become an expensive burden on the pork industry.
This
doesn't have to be the case. Manure can be converted to energy through
biological and chemical processes. The tremendous amount of swine
manure produced each year can be an alternative, renewable energy
source that can supplement the ever-dwindling reserve of fossil fuels.
One
exciting new technology for turning waste to fuel is thermochemical
conversion. Thermochemical conversion, or TCC, is a chemical process
that reforms organic matter in a heated enclosure, usually in an
environment with little or no oxygen.
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Also
from ThePigSite.com, the lovely and helpful treatise entitled
“Practices to Reduce Amonia,” compiled by Wendy Powers of Iowa State
University. Click here to read the article.
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