Intrepid Technology and Resources inc. has announced that they have successfully processed biogas generated from dairy manure into commercial pipeline-quality natural gas. 

 

The company says that American Mobil Research Inc. of Caspar Wyoming has confirmed that the gas produced from Interpid's newly installed gas conditioning equipment at their prototype demonstration facility located at the Whitesides Dairy in Rupert, Idaho, meets the heating value requirement for direct injection into a commercial pipeline distribution system.

 

According to the company's press release, the gas contains acceptably low levels of sulphur and the methane purity content obtained by Intrepid is 99.7%, which is equivalent to 1008 BTUs per cubic foot of gas.

 

Jake Dustin, President of Intrepid, acknowledged the contribution of Andigen and Utah State University who developed the proprietary 'Blanket Reactor Digester' that is used in the demonstration platform.

 

Dr. Dennis Keiser, CEO of Intrepid, stated "With this critical milestone achieved, we are now ready to proceed with our first commercial load of green gas to Intermountain Gas Company and begin building regional biogas fields in earnest. Having established the fact that animal waste can be converted into a clean burning, pipeline transportable and renewable enrgy resource, we intend to start developing the the first renewable large scale gas field in the world and we start on that project today".

 

David Smith, Singapore