[Digestion] Chicken feathers

[Mark Wells]

Hi Randy,
This is just what we are looking for, what's the name of your Danish 
supplier?
Mark


On 2012/07/11 09:47 PM, Randy Mott wrote:
>
> We will use a chopper that also sanitizes them to 70 degrees. No 
> problem with that from the site that we visited in Denmark doing it. 
> But we need some confirmation of the gas numbers to be safe.
>
> Randy
>
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> [mailto:digestion-bounces at lists.bioenergylists.org] *On Behalf Of 
> *Charlie Ramos
> *Sent:* Wednesday, July 11, 2012 5:36 PM
> *To:* 'For Discussion of Anaerobic Digestion'
> *Subject:* Re: [Digestion] Chicken feathers
>
> Dear Randy,
>
> Be careful using chicken feathers as a feedstock for ADs.  We had a 
> swine farmer in Brazil that was slaughtering chickens onsite and 
> mixing the feathers (without our knowledge) with the animal waste (AD 
> influent).  We had so many problems with plugged pipes (effluent).  We 
> open the anaerobic digester to fix the problem after several 
> unsuccessful attempts to unplug the effluent without opening the AD. 
> After opening AD we realized that chicken feathers were plugging the 
> pipes.  As a matter of fact the feathers formed a very hard crust on 
> the top surface of the AD.
>
> Your AD set up may be different that our AD system, for this 
> particular farm, so here is some info on our set up:
>
> 1. Ambient temperature covered lagoon
>
> 2. The feather were not chopped or grinded before entering the AD
>
> 3. No mixing
>
> 4. Influent feedstock -- designed for swine waste
>
> I hope this info helps!
>
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> <mailto:[mailto:digestion-bounces at lists.bioenergylists.org]> *On 
> Behalf Of *Randy Mott
> *Sent:* Wednesday, July 11, 2012 4:41 AM
> *To:* 'For Discussion of Anaerobic Digestion'
> *Subject:* Re: [Digestion] Chicken feathers
>
> Apparently however that is removed is not cost-effective, at least, in 
> Poland. We have multiple poultry processing plants trying to get rid 
> of feathers.
>
> Randy
>
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> <mailto:[mailto:digestion-bounces at lists.bioenergylists.org]> *On 
> Behalf Of *Paul Harris
> *Sent:* Wednesday, July 11, 2012 10:09 AM
> *To:* For Discussion of Anaerobic Digestion
> *Subject:* Re: [Digestion] Chicken feathers
>
> G'day Randy et al,
>
> As chicken feathers are Keratin they may be worth a lot more as 
> Keratin than as methane.
>
> Happy digesting(?)
> HOOROO
>
> Mr Paul Harris BEng (Ag) (Melbourne)
> Visitor at The University of Adelaide
>
> On 10/07/2012 6:27 PM, Randy Mott wrote:
>
>     Hi folks! We are trying to get more verification of our
>     assumptions of methane production from chicken feathers. Anyone
>     have any data?  Thanks!
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