Cattle manure - precious raw material for ethanol fuel

In the campaign to find new sources of fuel to replace petroleum, US cow farm owners are encouraged to expand the barn when scientists identify cattle waste as a valuable source of raw materials for biofuel manufacturing plants, especially ethanol.

In Texas's Hereford agricultural areas and Mead in Nebraska state, a range of ethanol fuel plants are coming up and cow owners are being offered a price increase for the region's rich cow dung. Midwestern United States.

Currently some of the factories here are pursuing a pilot project called ' Genesis ', which in turn makes the herds of cattle release a lot of energy-rich manure to the ethanol processing plants. Through testing, pages (Photo: wfbf.com) The cattle farm in the Ethanol processing plant area E3 Biofuels in Mead, every day earns about 726,000 kg of manure from 27,000 cows. This manure is processed into methane gas and transported into ethanol processing plants. The byproducts from this processing can be used to fertilize corn fields, then the corn becomes a food source for cattle or distilled into ethanol.

Ron Lamberty, an American ethanol fueler spokesman, said there are now 117 ethanol plants in the US with an annual capacity of 5.3 billion gallons (1 gallon = 3.78). liters) and there are about 70 other factories under construction. The current main operating fuel of ethanol plants is gas or coal.