http://www.engineerlive.com/content/21081 Sean Ottewell reports on how chicken manure is the latest fuel to benefit from advanced technology heat and power generation, while a process used in the manufacture of coffee could boost biomass energy content by 20 per cent. Waste from chicken farms has long been used as a fuel, but tougher regulations are forcing the manufacturers to turn to more advanced solutions. For example, GE Energy's ecomagination-certified Jenbacher gas engines will use biogas created from chicken manure to generate needed power and heat at a large chicken farm north of the China's capital city of Beijing. The plant is the first of its type in China and could pave the way for similar applications in the future. The Beijing Deqingyuan chicken farm waste utilisation plant comes as the country seeks innovative ways to meet its energy and environmental requirements. Providing 14600MWh of electricity per year, the project is designed to help reduce sub...