Converting Manure Into Crude OilThePigSite.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.
