This webcast discusses the USDA CSREES Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program and highlights two of the projects funded through the program. One project involves vermicomposting dairy manure and the other utilizes pyrolysis to convert poultry litter into biogas. The presenters are: Richard Hegg, USDA CSREES; Mike Serio, Advanced Fuel Research, Inc.; Tom Herlihy, RT Solutions. This presentation was originally broadcast on December 14, 2007. More…
Video Segments and Power Point Presentations
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Individual Segments:
- Hegg (12 minutes) Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program. To go to this presentation, click on the link and move the time slider at the bottom of the screen to 5:00. Power Point Slides
- Serio (19 minutes) Pyrolysis of Poultry Litter for the Production of Biogas. To go to this presentation, click on the link and move the time slider at the bottom of the screen to 21:09. Power Point Slides
- Herlihy (27 minutes) Large Scale Vermicomposting for Managing Dairy Manure. To go to this presentation click on the link and move the time slider at the bottom of the screen to 40:40. Power Point Slides (For an update on this project, check out the 2015 Waste to Worth proceedings paper)
- Question and Answer(6 minutes) To go to this section, click on the link and move the time slider at the bottom of the screen to 1:09:00. Written Summary (in progress).
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Additional Information and Resources
- SBIR manure management focus area
- RT Solutions Vermicomposting
- Advanced Fuel Research Pyrolysis