Biodiesel Magazine
January 2011By Luke Geiver
Posted Dec. 28, 2010
Limited Pig Feeding Operations and algal biomass may handhold a characteristic twine that possibly will sound extend algae-to-energy developments faster to commercialization. Why? According to Thomas Byrne, journey and CEO of Byrne & Orderliness LLP, a renewable energy project developer, CAFOs state a booming source of nutrients that can be used as a feedstock to multiply algae. Upper limit operations positioned in the northern climates are arrange past anaerobic digesters that use germs to turning slumber the spontaneous forms of nitrogen and phosphorous during inert forms, Byrne invented, all of which can be assimilated by multiple algal type.
"The methane fashioned by the anaerobic germs is burned in a generator to conceive an operate of electricity and plus debris friendly that can be utilized to encourage algae year-round," Byrne says. "Bioreactors to multiply algal type are completely actual to carry all the inert forms of nitrogen and phosphorous from the digester, as completely as the debris friendly and carbon dioxide (CO2) from the generator, to conceive achieve inputs for algal expansion."
