This first of its kind facility which was  designed, manufactured and installed by HTI at Sietsema Farm Feeds turns turkey litter into syngas that is then used to make heat and electricity required in the [...]]]> Heat Transfer International has completed a biomass gasification heat and electric power generation plant at a feed mill in Howard City Michigan.

This first of its kind facility which was  designed, manufactured and installed by HTI at Sietsema Farm Feeds turns turkey litter into syngas that is then used to make heat and electricity required in the production of turkey feed. A modified turbine engine of the type used in the Cessna Citation business jet is powered by the oxidizing syngas to generate electricity. HTI worked closely with Williams International, a Walled Lake company that made the turbine and specializes in small gas turbine engines to develop the process known as SALT retort (starved air/low temperature). The process works like an oven that “bakes” any type of organic matter in an oxygen-starved environment which converts the biomass ( turkey litter in this case)  to a combustible gas that is then feed to the turbine which turns an electric generator.

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