Thanks to the collaborative efforts of Joseph Hamrick (a retired NACA/NASA engineer)
heading up Aerospace Research Corp in Roanoke, Virginia in the 70s-80s and early
90s:
Three to Five Megawatt externally-fired gas turbines proven capable of
burning cow dung have been generating on-line power from wood wastes for twenty years.
Using this energy to electrolyze water to produce Hydrogen (and high purity O2
by-product ) Cow Dung at 25% electrical generation efficiency and 25 Kw-Hr/LB
electrolyzer H2 production, will produce 30 lb of Hydrogen/ton which is equivalent to the energy
of ~ 15 gallons of gasoline consumed in an I.C.E. .
The 36 to 60 lbs/sec of 1600+ F (odorless according to EPA tests) turbine exhaust gas can be used for drying
and co-generation.
Fred
