Economic Feasibility of Anaerobic Digestion To Produce Electricity on Florida Dairy Farms
This paper focuses on the economic feasibilities of using two digester designs suitable for Florida -- covered lagoons and fixed-film digesters to generate electricity for on-farm use or sales. A grant from the Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services (FDACS) was used to employ t...
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| description | This paper focuses on the economic feasibilities of using two digester designs suitable for Florida --
covered lagoons and fixed-film digesters to generate electricity for on-farm use or sales.
A grant from the Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services (FDACS) was used to employ the services of two consulting firms that were familiar with the design and operation of fixed-film and covered lagoon digesters. The consultants visited three dairy farms located in Florida in the winter of 2005, calculated wastewater flows (including flushed manure, milking parlor wastewater, and recycled flush water), and determined the size and other necessary aspects of the potential systems specific to each dairy farm. Estimates were developed for the quantities of biogas and electricity that would be generated by each system. The consulting firms also projected initial capital investment costs and operating and maintenance costs for each system.
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| spelling | doaj-art-aba9d532afa64b2187f015d0e611bfe02025-02-08T05:51:51ZengThe University of Florida George A. Smathers LibrariesEDIS2576-00092019-05-0120061Economic Feasibility of Anaerobic Digestion To Produce Electricity on Florida Dairy FarmsRuss GiesyAnn C. Wilkie0Albert De Vries1Roger A. NordstedtUniversity of FloridaUniversity of FloridaThis paper focuses on the economic feasibilities of using two digester designs suitable for Florida -- covered lagoons and fixed-film digesters to generate electricity for on-farm use or sales. A grant from the Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services (FDACS) was used to employ the services of two consulting firms that were familiar with the design and operation of fixed-film and covered lagoon digesters. The consultants visited three dairy farms located in Florida in the winter of 2005, calculated wastewater flows (including flushed manure, milking parlor wastewater, and recycled flush water), and determined the size and other necessary aspects of the potential systems specific to each dairy farm. Estimates were developed for the quantities of biogas and electricity that would be generated by each system. The consulting firms also projected initial capital investment costs and operating and maintenance costs for each system. Retired from EDIS public website March 30, 2021. https://journals.flvc.org/edis/article/view/115253AN159 |
| spellingShingle | Russ Giesy Ann C. Wilkie Albert De Vries Roger A. Nordstedt Economic Feasibility of Anaerobic Digestion To Produce Electricity on Florida Dairy Farms EDIS AN159 |
| title | Economic Feasibility of Anaerobic Digestion To Produce Electricity on Florida Dairy Farms |
| title_full | Economic Feasibility of Anaerobic Digestion To Produce Electricity on Florida Dairy Farms |
| title_fullStr | Economic Feasibility of Anaerobic Digestion To Produce Electricity on Florida Dairy Farms |
| title_full_unstemmed | Economic Feasibility of Anaerobic Digestion To Produce Electricity on Florida Dairy Farms |
| title_short | Economic Feasibility of Anaerobic Digestion To Produce Electricity on Florida Dairy Farms |
| title_sort | economic feasibility of anaerobic digestion to produce electricity on florida dairy farms |
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| url | https://journals.flvc.org/edis/article/view/115253 |
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