A company in Britain has developed the world’s first dung-powered tractor. Which runs entirely on cow dung.
According to reports, this T7 tractor is the first of its kind to run on liquid methane gas. Considered a turning point in the efficient supply of energy to UK farms.
Developed jointly by the British company Bennamann and New Holland Agriculture. Its power is 270bhp. It runs on fuel obtained from farmyard manure. Its performance is comparable to that of a diesel-powered tractor.
Dung collected, diluted and poured into large tanks which produces methane gas to run the tractor.
T7 Methane Power LNG Tractor:
According to the report, a herd of 100 cows kept for the fuel required for the dung-powered tractor. Whose waste would collected and sent to biomethane storage unit.
When the waste becomes gas. Then the obtained methane gas is to clean and purified. Then it is compressed and switched to low-emission fuels.
A special tank requires to store this gas. Therefore, a cryogenic tank mounted on a tractor would maintain methane in liquid form at minus 162 degrees. Which gives the car as much power as diesel and emits less smoke.
dung-powered tractor are sponsored by Benaman, a British county Cornwall company. Which has been researching biomethane production for more than a decade. The tractor was first seen driving in a field in Cornwall.
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The ‘New Holland T7 Methane Power LNG Tractor’ unveiled at an event in the US last year 2022.
The process of making liquefied LNG from dung is quite expensive. A British company offered a solution. It has created a mobile converter. Which reaches there when adequate amount of dung is collected. Then the dung is converted into biogas and sent to other fields for the same purpose.