A.O. Smith performs feasibility assessments and designs and installs biogas systems. A.O. Smith has designed biogas systems for 7 farms in the U.S. and 10 farms in Europe. Examples include: 1) Huntington Dairy, a 600 cow dairy in Cooperstown, NY; and 2) University of Florida, a 500 cow dairy in Gainesville, FL.
Agri Bio Systems
Richard Vetter
2333 Tara Drive
Elgin, IL 60123
Agri Bio Systems performs feasibility assessents and designs and installs biogas systems in the U.S. and abroad. Examples of biogas systems include: 1) Lindstrom Farm: a 50-cow dairy farm in Welch, MN; 2) Leefer Farm, a 1,000-cow beef confinement farm in Carbin Carlinville, IL; 3) Smith Farm, a 70,000-broiler poultry farm in Princeton, NC; 4) Naser Farm, a 1,000-sow finishing swine farm in Sibley, IA; 5) Hamilton Farm, a 450-sow finishing farm and a 120,000-layer poultry farm in Iowa Falls, IA; 6) Huntington Dairy, a 300-cow dairy farm in Cooperstown, NY; 7) Cushman Farm, a 600-cow dairy in Franklin, CT; and 8) International Project, Taiwan, Environmental Training Center for Waste Management. Agri Bio Systems also acts as a coordinator on numerous animal waste and food waste projects.
Anergen Corporation
Esh Noojibail
663 Academy Drive
Northbrook, IL 60062
Anergen specializes in designing and installing waste mitigaton systems for agricultural and industrial organic wastes to recover biogas, reduce BOD, eleminate odor, separate nutrients, and generate electricity from biogas. Anaergen has a fully instrumented, state-of-the-art pilot plant that can be used to test the material before installing the system. Anergen does not design and install any systems unless they perform a trial of the waste material at the pilot plant. Anergen uses latest anaerobic technology that generates 50 to 75 percent more biogas than conventional technologies. Average payback is three to six years with positive cash flow. The performance is guaranteed.
Bioenergy & Environmental, LLC
Jun Yoshitani
211 East Illinois Street
Wheaton, IL 60187
Bioenergy & Environmental , LLC (B&E) offers comprehensive planning, design, and construction services for the implementation of integrated bioenergy and environmental facilities. Through the company's experience working with more than 20 livestock facilities, B&E has developed a systematic, computer-aided approach for helping producers analyze their farm energy potentials and understand their obligations to CAFO rules. B&E incoporates aplication of phytotechnology for low-cost, on-farm nutrient control systems and provides assistance in preparing Farm Bill Title IX grant/loan applications.
Charles Equipment Company has specialized in reciprocating engine power systems for businesses, homes and municipalities for more than 43 years. Charles Equipment Company has three offices located across the Midwest, providing full service in Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Wisconsin and Northwest Ohio.
Engineered Storage Products Company (E.S.P.C.) performs feasibility assessments and designs and installs biogas systems. E.S.P.C. has designed biogas systems for seven farms in the U.S. and 10 farms in Europe. Representative projects include: 1) Huntington Dairy, a 600-cow dairy in Cooperstown, NY; and 2) University of Florida, a 500-cow dairy in Gainesville, FL.
Feldmann and Associates
Terry Feldmann
410 Illinois Street, Suite C
Spring Bay, IL 61611
Feldmann and Associates collaborated with AgSTAR to design a complete mix digester for Apex Pork in Rio, IL, an AgSTAR demonstration farm. The company has other biogas projects in the planning and construction phases, including Inwood Dairy in Elmwood, IL, a plug flow dairy project, and New Image, LLC, a completer mix swine digester. Feldmann is focused on advising farmers to increase production efficiency and improve manure-handling methods.
Gas Technology Institute (GTI) and the Environmental Science & Technology Center have been carrying out research and development projects and technology demonstrations in the areas of anaerobic digestion and biogas generation since the 1970s. GTI holds a number of patents on the two-phase reactor system and other reactor designs and systems. The two-phase digestion technology has been in full-scale commercial use for activated sludge treatment for more than five years. The two-stage system has proven successful for swine and dairy manure in large-scale laboratory evaluations and GTI is preparing for farm demonstrations and full-scale deployments. Work is continuing on this technology and others to generate high-quality biogas with electric generation and heat recovery using farmer-friendly, stable, and dependable systems.
Heartland Biodiesel, Inc.
Rodger Walker
500 West Herrin St.
Herrin, IL 62948
Office: (618) 942-2844
Heartland Biodiesel is expected to open a 5 million gallon annual production capacity plant using soybean oil as the primary feedstock.
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