Clean Poultry Energy System Design Based on Biomass Gasification Technology: Thermodynamic and Economic Analysis

Guiyan Zang, Jianan Zhang, Junxi Jia, Nathaniel Weger and Albert Ratner
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Guiyan Zang: Department of Mechanical Engineering, The University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA 52242, USA
Jianan Zhang: Department of Mechanical Engineering, The University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA 52242, USA
Junxi Jia: College of Power and Energy Engineering, Harbin Engineering University, Harbin 150001, China
Nathaniel Weger: Department of Mechanical Engineering, The University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA 52242, USA
Albert Ratner: Department of Mechanical Engineering, The University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA 52242, USA

Energies, 2019, vol. 12, issue 22, 1-18

Abstract: Despite growing attention has been paid to waste material gasification for high-efficiency energy conversion, the application of gasification technology in meat waste management is still limited. To fill this gap, this study designed two systems which evaluated the potential of using gasification technology to manage the poultry waste that has been exposed to highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI). Two systems are simulated by using Aspen plus combined with a one-dimensional kinetics control gasification model, and wood or dried poultry is selected as the feedstock for the gasifier. The results show that the energy efficiency of the poultry drying system (wood gasification) is 14.5%, which is 12% lower than that of the poultry gasification system when the poultry energy is accounted as energy input. Even though the economic analysis indicates the poultry elimination cost of the poultry gasification system is only 30 $/tonne lower than the poultry drying system, taking the absence of dried poultry burial into consideration, the poultry gasification system has development potentials. The sensitivity analysis shows that labor fee and variable factor has larger effects on the poultry elimination cost, while the uncertainty analysis determines the uncertainty level of the economic analysis results.

Keywords: biomass gasification; poultry emissions control; energy conversion; economic analysis; power generation; energy from waste (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q Q0 Q4 Q40 Q41 Q42 Q43 Q47 Q48 Q49 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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