Question

Can you use horse manure to save energy?

Answer 1

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You need to get it into a tank and encourage it to degrade anaerobically, so you can extract the methane. The methane can be used to heat your house, power your refrigerator, drive your car, and even run a generator to produce electricity.

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Answer 2

When land-application or composting of horse manure isn’t viable, due to insufficient land, space, or progressively stringent regulations, one alternative that is increasingly being implemented around the world is to make renewable energy. While the idea of using manure for energy isn’t exactly new (sun-dried manure was used for heat as far back as Ancient Persia and Egypt), the technologies required to turn horse manure into renewable energy in an efficient, economical, and environmentally manner are.

When it comes to turning horse manure into renewable energy there are two main types of technology to choose from; biomass boilers and gasifiers . Biomass boilers are similar to conventional gas boilers that most readers will be familiar with; the key difference being that instead of natural gas or oil, biomass boilers burn biomass, such as wood, to produce heat. Biomass boilers are also much larger than their conventional boiler counterparts, and require a mechanism to fed biomass into the boiler. Gasification involves the partial combustion of biomass in small amounts of oxygen at high temperatures of 900 – 1,400oC. Instead of burning the biomass, gasification converts the chemical energy in biomass into a fuel gas known as ‘syngas’. Syngas, commonly made up of a mixture of hydrogen, methane, carbon monoxide and carbon dioxide, can be utilised in a range of applications to produce renewable heat, electricity or liquid fuels.

While biomass boilers and gasifiers are fundamentally the same; conversion of biomass to renewable energy, the technology’s cost, flexibility, and energy outputs are different. In general, biomass boilers are cheaper, smaller and better known than gasifiers, making them cheaper and less risky. Gasifiers, on the other hand, are cleaner (requiring much less emission control), and have greater biomass and energy flexibility, enabling use of more heterogeneous biomass and ability to make heat, electricity or liquid fuels. Deciding if these technologies are right for you will depend on a number of variables.
Manure Type and Volume
The cornerstone of any successful biomass renewable energy project is feedstock; in this case, horse manure. Understanding the characteristics and volume of horse manure is essential to determining the economic feasibility of producing renewable energy. Stall bedding material, housing climate and management practices can vary between equine facilities. Understanding this and how it can impact horse manure composition, moisture content and volume is essential.

Horse manure that consists primarily of wheat, oat, rye, straw, hay, or dried pasture clippings can be difficult to use for renewable energy production due to its high ash content and low ash-melting temperature (the temperature at which ash becomes sticky, adheres to surfaces and causes corrosion). While not insurmountable, these difficulties require more expensive equipment, making economic feasibility very challenging. Sand-based horse bedding is also undesirable as potential energy content is extremely low.

Horse manure that consists primarily of shavings, pellets, sawdust, other woody materials, or peat moss is much more conducive for renewable energy production, as this type of manure has a lower ash content, higher ash-melting temperature, and higher energy content; making renewable energy production easier, cheaper and therefore more economically feasible.