Feasibility analysis of utilizing swine manure as an energy source in Southwest Taiwan

S. C. Yeh; J. C. Chen; Y. L. Chen

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Feasibility analysis of utilizing swine manure as an energy source in Southwest Taiwan

S. C. Yeh, J. C. Chen^*, Y. L. Chen

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Graduate Institute of Sustainability Management and Environmental Education

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Abstract

Swine manure is one of the main sources for generating biogas. A well designed biomass-to-energy system is meaningful in low carbon power generation, pollution prevention, and greenhouse gas reduction. In this study, a semi-centralized biomass-to-energy system for transforming swine manure to electricity was proposed and the potential of being cost-effective was examined. Geographic Information Systems with agglomerative hierarchical clustering as the algorithm were employed to identify the cooperative areas and the cover years in a conservative and an optimistic scenario were calculated. In southwest Taiwan, where over 70% of the swine heads were raised, it was found that collecting high dry matter swine manure within 40km returned better performance than that for collecting low dry matter swine manure within 10km.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	229-243
Number of pages	15
Journal	Energy Sources, Part A: Recovery, Utilization and Environmental Effects
Volume	33
Issue number	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1080/15567030903078038
Publication status	Published - 2011 Jan

Keywords

Taiwan
agglomerative hierarchical clustering
biomass-to-energy
centralized system
swine manure

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Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment
Nuclear Energy and Engineering
Fuel Technology
Energy Engineering and Power Technology

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