Anaerobic Technologies and Innovations

1. Anaerobic Technologies and Innovations Tom Hintz – Seahold LLC UNC Charlotte IDEAS Center Bioenergy Symposium April 9, 2013

2. Your Presenter Thomas Hintz, is the senior/managing partner at SeaHold LLC. Tom is a seasoned business executive with a solid background of achievements in profit generation, product/project development. Tom graduated from Indiana University in 1983. Tom’s main focus is “Renewable Energy” in California, working with farmers, private industry, universities, innovative entrepreneurs, and government agencies. Tom’s greatest strengths are the conceptualization, visualization and implementation of “waste to energy” projects that yield significant revenue, while maximizing environmentally sound practices. Tom is recognized for his expertise in the field, and regularly advises local, regional and state regulatory agencies and commissions that govern “Renewable Energy” projects. Tom specializes in making projects happen; from the “pie in the sky” conceptual design through specific, detailed engineering; to the commissioning and operations of alternative energy facilities and the eventual interconnection to natural gas and electrical distribution networks. Tom knows the value of buying and selling energy credits.

3. The Basics

4. What is Anaerobic Digestion? Anaerobic Digestion is simply the controlled breakdown of organic matter without air, used to manage waste and/or to release energy. It is a biological process that produces an energy-rich biogas, principally composed of methane (CH4) and carbon dioxide (CO2), which can be used as a fuel.

5. Feedstock Makes Energy

6. The Anaerobic Digestion Cycle

7. Biogas Systems & Technology

8. A Basic Biogas System

9. Digester Technologies

10. A Typical Complete Mix Digester Fiscalini Farms Modesto, CA Biogas Energy, Inc. Fiscalini Farms Modesto, CA Biogas Energy, Inc.

11. Lagoon Digester Joseph Farms - Cottonwood Dairy Atwater, CA Williams Engineering Design

12. Plug Flow Digester Qualco Energy Tulalip, WA Andgar

13. Fixed Film Digester The basic fixed-film digester design consists of a tank filled with plastic media on which a consortia of bacteria attach and grow as a slime layer or biofilm hence the name fixed-film digester. The media is fully submerged and wastewater flow can be in either the up-flow or down-flow mode. As the wastewater passes through the media-filled reactor, the attached and suspended anaerobic biomass convert both soluble and particulate organic matter in the wastewater to biogas, a mixture of mostly methane and carbon dioxide Dairy Research Unit (DRU) at the University of Florida

14. Innovations In Anaerobic Digestion

15. Special thanks to Kyle Goehring - Eisemann • High Solids Digesters • Best used for mixed feedstock applications (food waste, animal manure, ethanol production byproducts) • Smaller real-estate footprint and feedstock flexibility

16. Special thanks to Joe Burke - Novus • High Rate – Zero Waste • 90%+ conversion of feedstock to energy, low turn-around time (4 days); produces organic fertilizer and CLEAN WATER as by-products

17. Insuring Success in Anaerobic Digestion

18. Financial Incentives • Financial incentives can help offset the cost of anaerobic digestion projects • Examples • State Of North Carolina - Renewable Energy Tax Credit • 35% up to $2.5 million per installation - no system sizing requirement • Federal - Renewable Electricity Production Tax Credit • Electricity produced from anaerobic digesters - .011 per kWH- minimum sizing 150 kW Extensive information can be found at http://www.dsireusa.org

19. Make your project successful !! Small Footprint - only 4 day HRT 90%+ Conversion to energy Ability to ‘Test Drive a Plant’ Creation of Organic Fertilizer Produce Clean Water for reuse

20. SeaHold would like to thank: Kyle Goehring - EISENMANNCorporation Joe Burke – Novus Energy Jeff Zierdt – Novus Energy Brian Gannon – Biogas Energy Incorporated

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