Cornwall: A company in the UK has developed the world’s first tractor that runs entirely on cow dung.
The Daily Mail According to a report by , the T7 is the first tractor of its kind to run on liquefied methane gas, which is considered a turning point in the efficient supply of energy to UK farms.
Developed jointly by the British company Benaman and New Holland Agriculture, it has a power of 270bhp, and runs on fuel derived from farmyard manure, and is said to have the same performance as a diesel-powered tractor. is of quality.
For this, cow dung is collected, diluted and poured into large tanks, then gas is produced from it, the majority of which is methane.
According to the report, a herd of 100 cows is kept for the fuel required for the tractor, whose waste is collected and sent to the biomethane storage unit.
When the waste is gasified, the resulting methane gas is purified and purified, then pressurized and then converted into a low-smoke fuel.
Special tanks are needed to store the gas, so a tractor-mounted cryogenic tank keeps the methane in liquid form at minus 162 degrees, giving the vehicle diesel-like power and less smoke. Is.
The first-of-its-kind tractor, developed by Benaman, a company based in the British county of Cornwall, which has been researching biomethane production for more than a decade, was first seen running on a field in Cornwall.
The ‘New Holland T7 Methane Power LNG Tractor’ was unveiled at an event in the US last month.
It should be noted that the process of making liquefied LNG from cow dung is quite expensive, for this a British company has come up with a solution, it has made a mobile converter that reaches there when the right amount of cow dung is collected and the cow dung It is converted into biogas and sent to other farms from there.