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GE Engines Turn Cow Dung to Biogas

Posted May 07, 2010 8:01 AM

From The Engineer - News:

GE is supplying Jenbacher biogas engines to a cow farm in China that will convert manure from its bovine residents into biogas capable of generating 38,000MWh a year.

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Re: GE Engines Turn Cow Dung to Biogas

05/08/2010 9:48 PM

What??

It sounds from the article that the GE engines are burning the biogas, which comes from some unmentioned process (more likely involving tanks, heaters, separators, digesters, etc.; but not engines). A better title would have been "GE Engines Burn Biogas from Cow Dung."

What sort of carburetors or fuel injectors could ingest cow dung?

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