Brandon Butler joins Nathan “Shags” McLeod and Trevor Morgan on theThe Morning Shag to discuss Roeslein Alternative Energy’s production of renewable natural gas from swine manure and prairie plants.
Smithfield and RAE Making Renewable Natural Gas
Published by Brownfield Ag News for America
Written by: Julie Harker
Smithfield Foods is a partner in making natural gas out of hog manure. Methane gas is being captured by Roeslein Alternative Energy (RAE) at Smithfield hog production facilities in North Missouri – which is purified and sold as renewable natural gas (RNG) to the California market. Rudi Roeslein, CEO of the energy company, tells Brownfield Ag News it’s sold on the federal market through an EPA program, “Called the D3 RIN which tries to come up with material that’s produced from cellulose and manure is actually, in 2015, qualified as a cellulosic product of renewable natural gas.”
Planting Prairies to Make Renewable Natural Gas
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Written by: Julie Harker
An alternative energy company making natural gas from Smithfield hog waste plans to soon make the same fuel from prairie plants.
Key Phase Underway in $120 Million Manure to Energy Project.
Installation of Biogas Technology Will Create Renewable Natural Gas at Smithfield Foods’ Ruckman Farm by Mid-2016
Albany, MO (October 30, 2015) – Roeslein Alternative Energy announced the turnkey facility to create and inject large quantities of Renewable Natural Gas (RNG) into the national grid system, created from one of the largest concentrations of finishing hogs in the Midwest, will be operational by mid-2016. The announcement took place during an event at Ruckman Farm, one of the nine Smithfield Foods Missouri hog production facilities involved in the largest livestock manure-to-energy project of its kind.
Read moreBeyond the asphalt: The role of prairies in conserving our ecosystem
Published by St. Louis Public Radio
Written by Evita Caldwell
People in urban areas may not think about the importance of prairies. But beyond the asphalt, concrete and glass of the city, is a country rich in prairie land.
Big hog manure to biogas project in Missouri.
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Written by Julie Harker
A $100 million renewable biogas project is underway in north Missouri. Murphy-Brown of Missouri – formerly Premium Standard Farms – has partnered with Roeslein Alternative Energy to capture biogas from hog manure and turn it into Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG), and (CNG), for use as a transport fuel. Bill Homann with Murphy Brown of Missouri says the project will allow them to extend the use of impermeable lagoon covers to 90 of their hog farms, “Then that will function in the future as a digester and so we’ll have, basically, ninety digesters capturing gas in our finishing facilities in North Missouri.”