The main purpose of the award is to help commercialize an integrated anaerobic digestion system dubbed iADs, which can cost-effectively produce clean energy from both solid and liquid organic wastes through anaerobic digestion.
Released February 1, 2010
WOOSTER, Ohio — A recent $2 million grant awarded by the state of Ohio’s Third Frontier Advanced Energy Program to boost the amount of biogas produced from waste has at its core technology developed by Ohio State University’s Ohio Agricultural Research and Development Center (OARDC).
The grant was given to Cleveland-based quasar energy group (formerly Schmack BioEnergy) and several collaborators, including OARDC, Ohio State’s Ohio BioProducts Innovation Center (OBIC), Rockwell Automation, Seaman Corporation, seepex and McCabe Engineering. OARDC will receive close to $1.5 million of the grant as a subcontract.
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