Category Archives: Clean Energy / RNG

Manure to Energy

A fenced area with a solar-powered water pump system, featuring a top-head drive pump. The setup includes two solar panels mounted on a pole, red pipes, and control equipment encased in a grey box. Surrounding the equipment is a gravel path with green vegetation in the background.

ZERO-EMISSION SOLARS PUMP BIOGAS CONDENSATE SUMPS AT MISSOURI HOG FARMS MANURE-TO-ENERGY PROJECT

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, the concept of turning manure to renewable natural gas (RNG) at Smithfield’s sprawling Missouri farm sites took firm shape.

Hog waste went to a covered lagoon, where the decomposing manure produced methane, which was to be scrubbed and ultimately fed into natural gas pipelines.

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