Anaerobic codigestion of dairy manure and food-based feedstocks reflects a cradle-to-cradle approach to organic waste management. Given both of their abundance throughout New York State, waste-to-energy processes represent promising waste management strategies. The existing waste-to-energy literature has not yet fully realized the environmental impacts associated with displaced grid electricity generation and feedstock-hauling emissions on the net environmental impact of centralized codigestion facilities. The key objective of this study is to provide a comprehensive environmental impact assessment with the purpose of understanding the existing environmental status of centralized codigestion facilities. Real-time data from an operational codigestion facility located in Western New York State was used to conduct this environmental impact statement. A comprehensive inventory of greenhouse gas emissions associated with renewable electricity production at the codigestion facility was developed using the Emissions & Generation Resource Integrated Database (eGRID) (U.S. EPA), while emissions associated with feedstock hauling were quantified using the fuel life-cycle approach developed by the Greenhouse gases, Regulated Emissions, and Energy use in Transportation model (GREET) (U.S. DOE). With each of the emissions models used for this analysis, it was determined that the net environmental impact associated with hauling food-related feedstocks from the many locations throughout the Northeast U.S. region would be acceptably low, and thus could be part of future sustainable development of centralized codigestion facilities.
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ASME 2013 7th International Conference on Energy Sustainability collocated with the ASME 2013 Heat Transfer Summer Conference and the ASME 2013 11th International Conference on Fuel Cell Science, Engineering and Technology
July 14–19, 2013
Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
Conference Sponsors:
- Advanced Energy Systems Division
- Solar Energy Division
ISBN:
978-0-7918-5551-5
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Environmental Impact Assessment of an Anaerobic Codigestion System in Western New York State
Matthew J. Rankin,
Matthew J. Rankin
Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY
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Thomas A. Trabold,
Thomas A. Trabold
Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY
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Robert Blythe
Robert Blythe
CH4 Biogas LLC, Atlantic Beach, FL
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Matthew J. Rankin
Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY
Thomas A. Trabold
Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY
Robert Blythe
CH4 Biogas LLC, Atlantic Beach, FL
Paper No:
ES2013-18187, V001T13A005; 8 pages
Published Online:
December 22, 2013
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Rankin, MJ, Trabold, TA, & Blythe, R. "Environmental Impact Assessment of an Anaerobic Codigestion System in Western New York State." Proceedings of the ASME 2013 7th International Conference on Energy Sustainability collocated with the ASME 2013 Heat Transfer Summer Conference and the ASME 2013 11th International Conference on Fuel Cell Science, Engineering and Technology. ASME 2013 7th International Conference on Energy Sustainability. Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA. July 14–19, 2013. V001T13A005. ASME. https://doi.org/10.1115/ES2013-18187
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