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Relevant Documents:

• Project Agreement

Minutes:

• Minutes of the Advisory Committee Meeting (6/26/00).

Reports:

• Feasibilty of Fuel Cells for Energy Conversion on the Dairy Farm - Progress Report #1 (July 2000).
• National Food and Energy Council Annual Conference Report (8/7/00-8/9/00).
• Feasibility of Fuel Cells for Energy Conversion on the Dairy Farm - Final Report #6243-1. Prepared for The New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (Norman R. Scott, Project Principal Investigator; Stefan Minott, Co-Principal Investigator; March 2003).
• A Web-based Spatial Decision Support System for Utilizing Organic Waste as Renewable Energy Resources in New York State - Final Report Prepared for The New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (Norman R. Scott, Project Principal Investigator; Jianguo Ma, Co-Principal Investigator; January 2006)
• Biogas Processing - Final Report Prepared for The New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (Bruce Roloson, Project Principal Investigator; Norman Scott, Co-Principal Investigator; Kimberly Bothi, Kelly Saikkonen and Steven Zicari, February 2006)

Presentations:

• NYSERDA Innovations in Agriculture Workshop Powerpoint Presentation
  (11/17/00)
• Transition Toward a Sustainable World: The Roles of Agriculture and Engineering
  (Presented on ASAE Annual Meeting, July 2001; ASAE Paper 01-7028)
• Feasibility of Fuel Cells for Energy Conversion on Dairy Farms
  (Presented on ASAE Annual Meeting, July 2001; ASAE Paper01-7015)
• Determining the Optimal Sites for Dairy Farm-Based Distributed Generation Systems
  (Presented on the 17th New York State GIS Conference, Oct. 30, 2001)
• NYSERDA Innovations in Agriculture Workshop Powerpoint Presentation
  (11/14/01)
• A GIS-based Decision Support System for Exploiting Food Waste and Dairy Manure as Renewable Energy Resources in New York State
  (By Jianguo Ma and Norman Scott; Presented on the 19th New York State GIS Conference, Oct. 2, 2003)
• Energy-conversion Options for Energy-efficient CEA - Emphasis on Fuel Cells
  (By Norman R. Scott and Corinne J. Rutzke; Presented at the American Society for Horticultural Science, Oct. 3, 2003)
• Integration of Sustainable Systems for Agro-Eco-Industrial Rural Community Development
  (By Norman R. Scott and Liping Duan; Presented at the International Forum on Bioenvironmental and Bioenergy Engineering; China Agricultural University; Beijing, China. November 20-23, 2003)
• Characterization of Dairy-Derived Biogas and Biogas Processing
  (By Norman R. Scott, Presented at the 2006 ASABE Annual International Meeting, July 9-12, 2006)
• The Future of Renewable Energy and Opportunities for Agriculture in the Northeast (NY)
  (By Norman R. Scott and Liping Duan; Presented at the AEM Outlook Conference, December 4, 2006)
• The Future of Renewable Energy and Opportunities for Agriculture in the Northeast
  (By Norman R. Scott; Presented at the NY State Cheese Manufacturers’ Assoc., Syracuse, NY. March 6, 2007)
• Co-digestion of Manure & Food Waste
  (By Norman R. Scott; Presented at the NYSERDA Conference, April 17, 2007)
• Evolution of Anaerobic Digestion for Sustainable Energy
  (By Norman R. Scott; Presented at the ASABE Meeting, June 19, 2007)
• Evolution of Anaerobic Digestion for Sustainable Energy
  (By Norman R. Scott; Presented at the 2007 New York Renewable Energy Summit, June 25, 2007)

Theses/Dissertations:

• Feasibility of Fuel Cells for Energy Conversion on The Dairy Farm
  (MS Thesis, by Stefan Minott, May 2002)
• Removal of Hydrogen Sulfide from Biogas Using Cow-manure Compost
  (MS Thesis, by Steve Zicari, January 2003)
• Removal of Hydrogen Sulfide from Biogas
  (MEng Thesis, by John Poe Taylor, August 2003)
• A Web-based Spatial Decision Support System for Utilizing Organic Waste as Renewable Energy Resources in New York State
  (PhD dissertation, by Jianguo Ma, major advisor: Norman Scott, November 2005)
  - Click this link for the web tool.
• Technical and Economic Feasibility of Upgrading Agricultural Biogas to Natural Gas Quality For the Natural Gas Pipeline
  (MS Thesis, by Kelly Saikkonen, May 2006)
• Characterization of Biogas from Anaerobically Digested Dairy Waste for Energy Use
  (MS Thesis, by Kimberly Lynn Bothi, May 2007)
• Microbial Fuel Cell Operation and Use with Anaerobic Digestion for Power Production from Dairy Manure
  (MS Thesis, by Crystal Ann Powers, August 2007)

Publications:

• Siting analysis of farm-based centralized anaerobic digester systems for distributed generation using GIS
  (Jianguo Ma, Norman R. Scott, Stephen D. DeGloria, Arthur J. Lembo, Biomass and Bioenergy, Volume 28, Issue 6, June 2005, Pages 591-600)
• Utilizing Organic Wastes as Renewable Energy Resources
  (Jianguo Ma, Norman R. Scott, Transactions of ASABE)