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.