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NSL on Rural Delivery - TVNZ Interview
Ian and Malcolm were interviewed by Rural Delivery, a TVNZ Saturday morning presentation.
Rural Delivery TV Interview
Rural Delivery TV Interview
Effluent to Energy (Radio NZ Country Life Interview with Ian)
Canterbury based electrical power engineer, Ian Bywater has developed an effluent-to-energy system for dairy units. (duration: 14′31″)
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Landcorp - Research and Development
25/11/08 15:11 Filed in: Landcorp | BioGenCool
...Devoting available resources for research and development to those areas which give the greatest economic advantage and which are not generally being investigated elsewhere in the agricultural community eg biogencool methane digester... Read More...
Affluent Effluent
30/04/08 19:10 Filed in: BioGenCool | Biogas
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...
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...
NZ Farmers Generate Energy from Biogas
According to Radio New Zealand, with the increase in fuel and power prices, farmers are thinking up new ways of tapping into their own energy sources.
South Island cropping farmers are now growing thousands of hectares of oilseed rape under contract to the biofuel company, Biodiesel New Zealand.
But some are also growing the brassica to provide oil for their own diesel powered farm vehicles and machinery.
They include Earl and Vicki Dillon, who grow wheat, barley and other crops on their farm near Balfour in Southland.
They have just won the region's top farm environment award for their farming practices, which include using minimum tillage methods such as direct drilling to protect the soil structure and reduce compaction.
Earl Dillon says they are also growing rape to provide fuel for their grain drier. They have imported an extractor which produces squeezed oil. He says it will not be refined into biodiesel.
An energy technology company, Natural Systems Limited, has set up a pilot plant on a Landcorp farm.
The biogas, a combination of methane and carbon dioxide, is produced in a digester that processes dung and urine collected from the dairy shed holding yard.
It powers an engine that generates electricity, as well as providing heating and cooling.
The company's technical director, Ian Bywater, says he believes it is the only system operating on a New Zealand farm that puts electricity back into the national grid.
He says about a third of the energy usually bought through the meter will be supplied from this source.
He also says the size of the dairy industry makes it possible for more manure to be collected and therefore more energy to be produced locally, where it is needed.
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South Island cropping farmers are now growing thousands of hectares of oilseed rape under contract to the biofuel company, Biodiesel New Zealand.
But some are also growing the brassica to provide oil for their own diesel powered farm vehicles and machinery.
They include Earl and Vicki Dillon, who grow wheat, barley and other crops on their farm near Balfour in Southland.
They have just won the region's top farm environment award for their farming practices, which include using minimum tillage methods such as direct drilling to protect the soil structure and reduce compaction.
Earl Dillon says they are also growing rape to provide fuel for their grain drier. They have imported an extractor which produces squeezed oil. He says it will not be refined into biodiesel.
"We'll be able to burn it through the diesel burner, which fires the wheat dryer."
Biogas generated electricity
Meanwhile, a dairy farm in Canterbury is generating electricity from biogas extracted from cow dung.An energy technology company, Natural Systems Limited, has set up a pilot plant on a Landcorp farm.
The biogas, a combination of methane and carbon dioxide, is produced in a digester that processes dung and urine collected from the dairy shed holding yard.
It powers an engine that generates electricity, as well as providing heating and cooling.
The company's technical director, Ian Bywater, says he believes it is the only system operating on a New Zealand farm that puts electricity back into the national grid.
He says about a third of the energy usually bought through the meter will be supplied from this source.
He also says the size of the dairy industry makes it possible for more manure to be collected and therefore more energy to be produced locally, where it is needed.
View the Radio New Zealand story by clicking here."That relieves the transmission and distribution network."
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Energy : Effluent power goes high-tech
Energy : Effluent power goes high-tech
By Anne LeeA Christchurch company has begun a farm-scale trial of a system that can use effluent to make electricity, heat water and cool milk.
BioGenCool, produced by Natural Systems, is projected to cut around one third off the electricity bill for farm dairies. At the same time it will provide rapid and constant milk cooling, improve the quality of the effluent, reduce greenhouse gas emissions and reduce water use.
Landcorp Farming is about to trial the system on its 850-cow Waimakariri dairy farm near Christchurch. Read More...