West Virginia Division of Energy

Biomass



Biomass

BIOMASS
The Energy Efficiency Program supports West Virginia University activities now under way to commercialize the conversion of poultry litter into a liquid fuel. Encouraging results have indicated that combining equal parts of poultry litter and water and submitting them to heat and pressure produces a diesel-fuel soluble liquid and propyl alcohol.

These impressive findings helped West Virginia secure several competitive grants through the Southeastern Regional Biomass Energy Program for the purchase of testing equipment and construction of a demonstration reactor. The program's overall goal is to commercialize an on-farm reactor that enables poultry farmers to develop a new profit center from the sales of these fuels. Call (800) 982-3386 or (304) 558-2234.