Iowa State Researchers Convert Farm Waste To Bio-Oil
The researchers are working to take wastes from Iowa farms — manure and corn stalks — and turn them into a bio-oil that could be used for boiler fuel and perhaps transportation fuel…
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Researchers convert farm waste to bio-oil
Samy Sadaka reached into a garbage bag, picked up a mixture of cow manure and corn stalks, let it run through his fingers and invited a visitor to do the same… It wasn’t that bad.
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Researchers Convert Farm Waste To Bio-oil
Iowa State researchers are converting manure and corn stalks into a bio-oil that can be burned as fuel. They’ll experiment with the process on a Story County hog farm beginning this fall.
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OMAHA (DTN) — Samy Sadaka, an associate scientist for Iowa State’s Center for Sustainable Environmental Technologies along with other Iowa State researchers are working to take wastes from Iowa farms — manure and corn stalks — and turn them into a bio-oil that could be used for boiler fuel and perhaps transportation fuel.
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Iowa State Researchers Convert Farm Waste To Bio-oil
Samy Sadaka reached into a garbage bag, picked up a mixture of cow manure and corn stalks, let it run through his fingers and invited a visitor to do the same.It wasn’t that bad.That mix of manure and corn stalks had spent 27 days breaking down in a special drying process. The end result looked like brown yard mulch with lots of thin fibers. There wasn’t much smell. [click link for full article]