Keeneland Races Ahead on the Green
by Campbell Wood (Business Lexington) Horse farm managers across the Bluegrass have their eyes on Keeneland’s proposed bio-fuel project. … The problem being what to do daily with tons upon tons of muck, a mixture of about 97 percent straw and three percent horse manure from over 40 Keeneland barns every year. “We tried bio-fermentation, an accelerated composting process,” he said. “That didn’t work out.” Lately the muck has been trucked to Tennessee for use on a mushroom farm. Soon it will be converted on site at Keeneland into bio-fuel and char.
…The (Mobile Bio-Oil Plant) can be trailer mounted in a 40-foot long, eight-foot wide and nine and a half-foot high crate and delivered. …The plant can process 30 tons of biomass a day. …At peak operations Keeneland will produce about 60 tons of muck a day.
…Michael Brown, who is with Stable Waste, one of the investment companies involved in the Keeneland project, says that there will be MBOPs in central locations. He mentioned Bourbon and Woodford Counties as examples of areas where horse farms could be served by a central location for processing muck. Brown said that Churchill Downs is next. “Their muck removal costs are north of a million dollars a year,” he said. “Our goal is to take that cost and get it down to zero.” READ MORE and MORE
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