[Gasification] Organic waste disposal

[CAVM at aol.com]

Please forgive me for being 2 weeks behind in reading the discussion posts.  
And likewise I would like to ask forgiveness for an OT discussion but I want 
to  address Peter's comments on poultry processing offal.
 
Peter, we can build a very economical system to take the offal from the  
poultry and fish processing industries locally. We already produce an excellent  
soil amendment in the USA via fermentation.
 
The local farmers and environmentalists would thank you and it would be a  
substantial revenue source.
 
Neal Van Milligen
Kentucky Enrichment Inc
_www.kentuckyenrichment.comc_ (http://www.kentuckyenrichment.comc) 
_cavm at aol.com_ (mailto:cavm at aol.com) 
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At  present ---

The tilapia raising uses mostly chicken wastes from chicken  packaging plants.

However -- tilapia raising is in serious decline --  so huge amounts of
chicken wastes are again "piling" up.

Standard  disposal of chicken slaughtering wastes here is spreading them out
by the  dump truck load on a distant field -- and letting the "John Crow"
feast on  them.

John Crow being the other name here for Vultures.

Tilapia  raising went down due to "green" pressure!!

Art -- this slaughter house  waste disposal issue is probably ideally suited
for  biodigesters!!

The Mennonites have experimented with rendering the  wastes of fat -- that
fat used as diesel fuel -- 

The rest would  work fine for the biodigester --

And bones to bone meal  after??

If anything -- a thermal gasifier would be just the ticket for  supplying
the heat required for rendering -- and I believe dried chicken  manure could
be that device's fuel??

I hope certain members of this  list learn that through OT discussions
"only" do new applications of  gasification arise??

How else -- eh??

OK -- moderns are so  allergic to "change" --- so everything needs be
greatly categorized in  perfect little boxes so their intellects do not get
upset.

So -- who  is going to build the first chicken wastes plant??

We had postings in  the past on the turkey wastes processing plants that
cost many millions to  build -- and stunk up the hood so badly -- 

Great idea Art!!

The  chicken manure gasifier could produce more than enough heat for
"rendering"  -- chicken processing thermal needs (as in de-feathering at
least!!) --  plus I imagine -- supply all the electric power to run the
plant -- and  even with some "export" amounts available.

Plus truly huge amounts of  bio-methane!!

And remember -- bio methane can be easily purified --  concentrated -- by
simply compressing it into a water tank -- on the way to  a storage cylinder.

Not super high pressures -- low -- such as 300 psi  in existing propane tanks.

As it is not liquid phase -- one need not  worry about it blowing up (so
much) when sun heated.

And though much  less energy would be stored per tank -- enough would still
be there to cook  -- maybe a week's worth of meals??

OK -- way off topic -- "topic" is  WWII gasifiers ---

But there you have it anyway -- a rough flow diagram  for something probably
a lot more "practical" than running a vehicle using  a gasifier!!

My mistake is I keep thinking one of the major topics is  "alternative"
energy and how to prepare to meet the eventual fossil fuel  crunch -- and by
any means viable!

I keep forgetting this is mostly  a list of "hobbyists" --

One can note that this flow diagram resulted  due to an argument between
Harmon and I over  tilapia!!

Peter/Belize


 



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