Biobased Industry Outlook Conference
August 29-30, 2005
Iowa State University - Ames, IA
Philip Goodrich
Philip Goodrich has led numerous research projects and is current Principal Investigator on a $200,000 project funded by the Legislative Committee on Minnesota Resources. That project is researching the barriers to installing fuel cells on anaerobic digesters in Minnesota in cooperation with Haubenschild Dairy Farms. The 5 kw proton exchange membrane fuel cell has been installed next to the 130 kw engine generator set on the anaerobic digester and is being evaluated using real time data collection.
He is a cooperator on a six-state USDA funded initiative to evaluate emissions from animal feeding operations. He is co-inventor on a patent for a non-thermal plasma device that destroys volatile contaminates in ventilation air. He served for five years as chairman of a National Research Council advisory team developing biogas in Egypt during the early 1980's. This involved a team of US and Egyptian scientists, engineers and sociologists installing biogas in rural villages. He has been involved in anaerobic digestion research and has taught Biosystems Engineering for more than 30 years at the University of Minnesota.
