Hi All,
I asked the IBI for more info about the companies they said they saw demonstrations of in Virginia and West Virginia in their IBI News letter.
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Evidently, I never got the call from Dr. Agblevor for his private demonstration. Frankly, I feel unappreciated.
the Virginia one is a fast pyrolysis system designed and patented by Dr. Foster Agblevor of Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, VA. That system was built and tested by Hazen Research, Inc., in Golden, Colorado. They visited the professor and designer of the VA Tech unit, and viewed a new prototype of that unit recently put into operation on a poultry farm in Virginia.
The second technology is a gasification unit developed and in commercial production by Coaltec Energy USA, Inc. (
Coaltec Energy USA, Inc. ), located in Carterville, Illinois. they visited one of their units currently in operation on a 100,000-bird broiler farm in Wardensville, WV. The farm is gasifying 1,000 tons of poultry manure per year, as well as approximately 30,000 bird carcasses (equivalent to a 3% mortality rate), and utilizing the thermal and biogas streams to heat the poultry houses. The owner of the facility has sold the biochar product to a New Jersey farmer for $600 per ton (net value $480 after accounting for $120 in biochar delivery costs).
Crying in my Beer,
Erich
