Canterbury Resource Management Awards 2008

...BioGenCool energy from dairy waste system is the winner of the EECA Special Award for Energy Efficiency, Conservation and Renewable Energy.
The project aims are the generation of energy using cow manure, greater energy self-sufficiency on-farm and conversion of cow manure to fertiliser. Judges said BioGenCool is a highly creative technology using a systems approach to take diary waste and convert it to useful on-farm resources.  The project is bringing together different technologies to create an integrated system within a dairy farm... Read More...

Offshore Firms Eye NZ Dairy Power from Gas

by Malcolm Mountfort , 28/10/2008,
(c) 2008 Rural News Group, www.ruralnews.co.nz

A Christchurch company is sparking international interest in its BioGen system for energy recovery from dairy waste.

The system captures methane and carbon dioxide from dairyshed and feedpad effluent to fire hot water boilers and, if economic, to generate electricity. Read More...

Affluent Effluent

Extract from Environment Canterbury, Living Here, April 2008.

A novel way of recovering energy on dairy farms is helping the environment. BioGenCool, installed as a pilot unit on a Landcorp Farming dairy unit at Eyrewell, North Canterbury, not only produces electricity from cow effluent but also produces biogas, ice to rapidly cool each day’s milk, and a more easily applied pasture fertiliser. Read More...