Source: MEATINGPLACE, 8/22/16

Roeslein Alternative Energy and Smithfield Foods Inc. plan to host an open house this week to showcase their $120 million animal waste-to-energy (WTE) project in Missouri, Roeslein said in an article republished on the company’s web site.

Roeslein said impermeable synthetic covers are now installed on 41 of the 88 existing manure lagoons at nine Smithfield farms in northern Missouri. The covers trap biogas from the decomposing manure, which is then captured and purified on-site into 98-percent pure methane – clean enough to sell to national pipelines and burn as clean, natural gas.

St. Louis-based Roeslein said Duke Energy in North Carolina has agreed to purchase a portion of the renewable natural gas from hog manure that has been injected into the national pipeline to help it meet clean energy requirements for power generation.

When completed, the project is expected to use enough manure to create 2.2 billion cubic feet of renewable natural gas (equivalent to 17 million gallons of diesel fuel each year).

The open house is set for Aug. 24 at the Smithfield hog production operation near Albany, Mo.

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