Category Archives: Manure to Energy

Zero-Emission Solars Pump Biogas Condensate Sumps at Midwest Hog Farms

A fenced area contains a water well with pipes, electrical equipment, and two solar panels mounted on a pole, surrounded by grass and trees.

Hog Farm Manure-to-Energy Project Turns Methane to Natural Gas

Blackhawk Technology Company, the nation’s leading provider of piston pumps for landfill methane condensate-sump pumping, is now supplying a bioenergy facility with Apollo™ piston pump units to pump methane biogas sumps for a renewable hog farm manure-to-natural-gas (RNG) project in the Midwest.

Fulfilling a Crucial Role

The joint venture of a hog farm producer and a bioenergy company captures methane from manure at the farms’ hog-finishing operations to produce pipeline-quality natural gas, which is distributed to RNG markets across the country.

When America’s largest hog producer, Smithfield Foods, joined with one of the country’s most respected renewable-energy engineers, Roeslein Alternative Energy (RAE), to create Monarch Bioenergy in 2020