Amanda Cuellar
Spring 2007 to present
Chemical Engineering and Plan II, Cockrell School of Engineering & College of Liberal Arts
Research Topic: livestock waste-to-energy
This research project seeks to quantify the energy and greenhouse gas
mitigation potential of anaerobically digesting all the animal manure
produced in the United States and using the resulting biogas to displace
coal in electricity generation. Producing biogas from manure eliminates
two greenhouse gas sources, namely emissions from decomposing manure
(methane and nitrous oxide, two gases with a high global warming
potential) and carbon dioxide emitted from coal burning power plants,
and replaces them with one, carbon dioxide from the burning of biogas in
a generator.



