Save Energy Now Workshop
Convert Wastes to On-Site Heat and Power
March 13, 2008 - Lafayette, Louisiana

This one-day workshop focused on the conversion of industrial process wastes and byproducts such as agricultural/food processing wastes, wastewater, landfill gas, and forestry wastes for energy production in the form of heat and power (cogeneration). Facility managers and corporate decision-makers of small and medium sized industrial facilities (including farms, livestock feeding operations, food processing plants, wastewater treatment plants, and municipal solid waste landfills with energy capacity needs of less than 10 MW) learned how to turn wastes to profits. Opportunity fuels include agricultural wastes (bagasse, corn stover, cotton gin trash), wood, switchgrass, food wastes, manure, tires, and waste heat.

• Gulf Coast CHP Application Center
• Louisiana Dept of Natural Resources
• University of Louisiana - Lafayette
• The Southwest Group
• Texas State Energy Conservation Office
• CPL Systems, Inc.
• Primenergy, LLC
• U.S. Department of Energy

The Gulf Coast CHP Center produced a study entitled "Combined Heat and Power Potential using Texas Agricultural Wastes" ( 859 KB) for the Texas State Energy Conservation Office in January 2008.