X

Clarkson University will celebrate National Bioenergy Day on Oct. 29 in Potsdam

Posted 10/27/15

POTSDAM -- Clarkson University will celebrate their third annual National Bioenergy Day on Thursday, Oct. 29. Clarkson’s bioenergy event this year will focus on anaerobic digestion as a means of …

This item is available in full to subscribers.

Please log in to continue

Log in

Clarkson University will celebrate National Bioenergy Day on Oct. 29 in Potsdam

Posted

POTSDAM -- Clarkson University will celebrate their third annual National Bioenergy Day on Thursday, Oct. 29.

Clarkson’s bioenergy event this year will focus on anaerobic digestion as a means of transforming organic waste materials to manage waste streams by transforming this waste into biogas for electricity and heat energy generation.

Clarkson Bioenergy Day includes events on campus and at the Cornell Cooperative extension farm in Canton.

The day will start with a workshop from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. titled, "Improving Options for North Country Dairy Farms: Digester Technology for Farms with Fewer Than 300 Cows," which will show that implementing digesters on small dairy farms is feasible. This workshop, located at 2043B State Highway 68 in Canton, will highlight recent research funded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture and conducted by Clarkson faculty with cooperation from the Cornell Cooperative Extension in St. Lawrence County.

To attend, register at stlawrence@cornell.edu.

The celebration continues with a showcase of bioenergy projects in the region, including the new food waste digester in Lake Placid. A poster display of bioenergy projects and a panel discussion describing specific opportunities for integrating organic wastes into digester systems will be presented from 3 to 5 p.m. in Clarkson's Cheel Campus Center Barben Rooms. Panelists include digester consulting firms describing successful projects for food waste and wastewater sludge digesters.

Clarkson University President Tony Collins will use the Bioenergy Day event to pledge the campus to a new Climate Commitment that extends the University's current pledge to reduce carbon emissions to also consider resilience and adaptation in its curriculum, research and campus operations. Collins will be among the first university presidents in the country to extend a climate commitment to include resilience.

The events at Clarkson are sponsored by its Institute for a Sustainable Environment. For further information, contact sep@clarkson.edu.