CHBE2: CHBE 2 - Chicken Litter Leads to Energy (Chicken LittLE)

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• As of 2022, the Eastern Shore of Maryland created about 548 million pounds of poultry litter biowaste, including manure, feathers,  and bedding. Waste runoff pollutes water with nitrogen and phosphorus which can be deadly to marine life and food sources. Current biogas-producing technologies for handling excess poultry waste are anaerobic digestion facilities. Anaerobic digestion risks inhibition from high ammonia concentrations and polluting water sources due to nitrogen rich compound byproducts. Gasification is more efficient than anaerobic digestion and is more suitable for materials with high lignin content, like poultry bedding. We designed a gasification process that produces 99% pure ammonium sulfate and 95% pure methanol.

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