Pipeline vs. truck transport of beef cattle manure

Ghafoori, Emad; Flynn, Peter C.; Feddes, J. J. R.

doi:10.1016/j.biombioe.2006.07.007

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“…In this study, the default assumption is that all manure is transported by truck for 3 miles to a central digester. Depending on the scale of the AD project, pipeline transportation of manure can be used to reduce the process energy inputs and operating costs, negating large capital costs (Ghafoori et al, 2007). As shown in Table 6, heat and electricity demands of AD facilities vary significantly depending on feedstock characteristics, plant size and technology (mesophilic vs. thermophilic, batch vs. continuous, and single stage vs. multiple stages).…”

Section: Animal Waste Transportation and Operation Of Anaerobic Digestermentioning

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Waste-to-wheel analysis of anaerobic-digestion-based renewable natural gas pathways with the GREET model.

Han¹,

Mintz²,

Wang³

2011

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Section: Animal Waste Transportation and Operation Of Anaerobic Digestermentioning

confidence: 99%

Waste-to-wheel analysis of anaerobic-digestion-based renewable natural gas pathways with the GREET model.

Han¹,

Mintz²,

Wang³

2011

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“…The most usual modes of transport are tractors, dumpers, trucks, bulk transport, and pipelines. Nowadays, the most common form of digestate transportation is by truck [31]. The following table shows the most common modes of transport used for digestate transportation, and the estimation on the transport cost depending on the type of vehicle and its capacity.…”

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A review of the current digestate distribution models: storage and transport

Plana

Noche

2016

WIT Transactions on Ecology and the Environment

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Over the past few years, the biogas sector has experienced an important growth in the number of biogas installations all over Europe, and consequently, the quantity of digestate also has had a significant increase. In Europe, biogas production by anaerobic digestion (AD) is a common source of renewable energy and the current amount of installations is around 13,000. Together with biogas, digestate is one of the two main by products resulting from the biogas process. The digested effluent is a liquid product rich in nitrogen (N), phosphorus (P), potassium (K) and micronutrients. Therefore, there is a wide variety of digestate utilization depending on the quality, the origin of the feedstock, the operating conditions of the process as well as the phase of the by-product. The most common end uses are biofertilizer and soil amendment, due to its essential characteristics and when the quality is adequate for agriculture use. Before land application, environmental and agronomic reasons affect the storage of the digestate for a required period of time, in the biogas installations or near the area of application. Hence, the increasing production of digestate, the low solids content of whole digestate and the vulnerability of several land areas to the amount of nitrate and phosphate in Europe, convert the biofertilizer into a bottleneck for the biogas sector, due to the difficulty for its management.This paper contains an extensive review of the technical literature regarding digestate distribution. The objectives of this paper were to identify and analyse the current digestate distribution systems; storage and transport in Europe.

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“…For example, transportation accounted for 35-50% of the total operating costs in the Danish centralised biogas plants (Flotats et al, 2009). To reduce costs and favour bigger centralised digesters, manure transportation in pipelines is considered a valid alternative to trucks in intensive farming areas (Bjerkholt et al, 2005;Ghafoori et al, 2007).…”

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Methods and tools to evaluate the availability of renewable energy sources

Angelis-Dimakis

Biberacher

Bravo

et al. 2011

Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews

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The recent statements of both the European Union and the US Presidency pushed in the direction of using renewable forms of energy, in order to act against climate changes induced by the growing concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. In this paper, a survey regarding methods and tools presently available to determine potential and exploitable energy in the most important renewable sectors (i.e., solar, wind, wave, biomass and geothermal energy) is presented. Moreover, challenges for each renewable resource are highlighted as well as the available tools that can help in evaluating the use of a mix of different sources.

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Pipeline vs. truck transport of beef cattle manure

Cited by 51 publications

References 15 publications

Waste-to-wheel analysis of anaerobic-digestion-based renewable natural gas pathways with the GREET model.

Waste-to-wheel analysis of anaerobic-digestion-based renewable natural gas pathways with the GREET model.

A review of the current digestate distribution models: storage and transport

Methods and tools to evaluate the availability of renewable energy sources

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