Where are you located? If anywhere near Denver I’d volunteer some spent material for science!
Honolulu, Hawaii, Waikiki near Diamond Head (on the slope).
Sorry, forum took my attempt to quote them out, I was asking where @HashyLarry is at
Sorry brother I’m in Cali. Already looking for uses for all my spent material as well! Builds up fast.
I’m interested
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We just started a facility and I’ve been trying to find someone to take out spent biomass. I lease some of my land to a woman to raise beef and she works at Dairyone Labs in their forage lab. She ran our spent biomass on the GC, and spoke to her colleagues at Cornell. This is what she came back with-
I heard back from my contact at Cornell and there are a few issues. First, there isn’t a lot of research into how it should be fed. There is a lot of European info on the seed meal as a feed but not much on the forage. Second, the USDA hasn’t recognized it as an approved livestock feed. That eliminates all but the few folks that are raising meat for their own consumption. Dairy and beef operations won’t be able to use it. Wish I had better news!
I can share the test results if anyone is interested.
If anyone has found a good option for spent biomass I’m still looking. Pleas help.
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See if you can get and post the test results. Might be enlightening.
In my state hemp at least can be used as livestock feed.
The other possibility is pellets for wood stove or grill?
What part of the country are you in?
I’m in CO and have had good luck selling it as a soil amendment. Not getting rich off of it by any means but it beats paying a roll off company to haul it away and bury it in a landfill. From talking to a few people wiser about these things than I am they say even after the oils are extracted out (FWIW my shop does cold ethanol) the spent biomass is still very nitrogen rich. Just had a lady that bought a few supersacks worth send me some pictures of her rapidly-developing garden she planted on top of ~4" of spent biomass over sandy soil and it looked really good
I’m in upstate NY. Good idea. I will reach out to the regional soil/mulch companies and see where it goes.
Anyone able to find someone with a biofuel reactor to take it as feedstock?
Spent Hemp analysis.pdf (116.7 KB)
Let me know if you can view this. If not, you can shoot me an email and I will reply with file. Note- I removed all of the Lab info and personal info from the result so I do not put my farmer in a difficult position.
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Yes, could see the analysis just fine. Thank you.
Almost 25% protein by dry weight looks great for livestock feed. A little corn and a touch of molasses and pellets made from that biomass should be great pig feed.
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That would be me. But i charge for disposal. Not as much as the haulers though.
Where are you located and how much do you charge per ton? What is your primary business incase you are not in my area and I would like to find someone similar?
Not only do they burn hot leaving very little ash residue it’s a good way get the spent biomass your goat can’t eat out of your backyard and off your property! From my reading other members of the “Good Life Gang” and others are looking for something constructive to do with spent biomass.
Is it a microbe thing for their gut? ? If the material were fresh, would they be happier? I know spent bio is the goal, but lots of biomass out there that is composting.
Is residual ethanol an issue when it comes to pelletizing spent hemp? What percent should the ethanol fall under?
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I could be depending on how much is left. In my experience if the biomass looks dry its dry enough to run through the pellet mill. I wouldn’t take any biomass that looks visibly wet and put it in the mill.
Setting shit on fire so you don’t have to…Spent biomass: note to self
Edit: don’t actually know if it was hydrocarbon or ethanol waste that ignited while my buddy was welding. Could easily have been either.
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Spread it out to air dry before pelletizing. The shit burns like crazy.
Yep. Once upon a time I convinced the folks at DeltaSep to take a bic to a handful of “looks dry” straight from the fuge…
I suggest a light misting with water post fuge…
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