Final-biogas report2 2008
UPEI Department of Engineering
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550 University Avenue Charlottetown PEI C1A 4P3 Page 25 of 55 and the electrical feed to the farm would be one-way from the grid. The biogas system would have its own separate hook-up to the grid with no intertie to the farm load. This is the energy use selected by the majority of North American farm digesters. This means there is a considerable amount of experience with this method, so it should have the lowest risks, as well as the lowest capital costs. Regardless of which alternative is chosen, the electrical hookup would necessitate appropriate safety and isolation breakers as dictated by the electrical utility. In a meeting with Maritime electric staff in December 2008, we were told that the utility currently has no firm rules for such hookups, and that the net-supply meter to monitor the feed from the farm system would be supplied by the utility. It was their opinion that, other than routine switch gear for disconnects and fuse protection, there were no additional requirements. Significant Challenges: • Suitable engine/generator models and manufacturers need to be found for single-phase installations, spark-ignited, 20kWe typical size • Engine reliability and cost needs to be determined • Gas cleaning requirements specific to the target engine must be verified • Generator control, emergency shutoff, and protection needs to be determined II. UPEI Department of Engineering 550 University Avenue Charlottetown PEI C1A 4P3 Page 26 of 55 Digestate Storage and Field Application Storage of the digestate could likely be provided by the remaining space in the tank on the example farms. For a 6-month-capacity tank, a plug flow digester should only take up 12% of the existing volume in the covered manure storage (not including space required for walls, etc.). The solid digestate will be reduced in volume from the original manure source by as much as 80%, with much of the lost volume in the form of liquid digestate. The liquid can be separated from the digestate solids using the same settling pits in the current manure storage tanks, and this liquid digestate can be applied to the fields. A significant advantage will be a reduction in smell from the typical liquid manure spreading. The solid digestate would be stored and applied to fields or further composted for bedding after passive drying. In this situation, the digestate requires no transportation, it goes directly from the digester to the adjacent storage space. Several farm digesters in the US are enclosed by purpose-built buildings or in at least one case a greenhouse, but there is no mention of digesters built inside pre-existing manure tanks[30]. The practicality of re-use for the existing manure storage in a digester/ digestate storage application would need to be investigated further. Download 0.79 Mb. Do'stlaringiz bilan baham: |
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