Company Plans To Convert Turkey Waste Into Steam, Electric Energy
Sietsema Farms Feeds in Pierson Township just south of Howard City is preparing to install a biomass facility to convert turkey waste into steam and electric energy for feed production, according to the Greenville Daily News.
When completed, the $3 million operation would be a combined heat and power system providing the equivalent of 8,463 barrels of oil annually. Sietsema Farms Feeds owner Harley Sietsema plans to begin work on the new 15,000-square-foot operation by late August or early September.
A few years ago, Sietsema wondered what to do with all the turkey waste accumulating at his farms. He began to look at alternative energy prospects - specifically gasification, which converts carbonaceous materials into carbon monoxide and hydrogen by reacting the raw material at high temperatures with a controlled amount of oxygen or steam.
Gasification is an efficient method for extracting energy from many different types of organic materials and is also a clean waste disposal technique.
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