ACTUATE Team Engages Abattoir Operators In Edo State

• Harps On production Of Biogas Using Cattle Rumen

THE Centre for Global EcoInnovation ( CGE), University of Benin, yesterday reiterated the role of abattoir operators as critical, crucial and important to the wellbeing of the people. Prof. Lawrence Ikechukwu Ezemonye, the ACTUATE Team Lead, disclosed this to newsmen in Benin City during a one- day ACTUATE capacity building and sensitization workshop for abattoir operators in Edo State organised by the Centre for Global EcoInnovation.

Declaring the workshop open, Ezemonye, who was represented by Professor Christhopher Emokaro, informed the abattoir operators that the day’s event was organised to create awareness on the use of cattle rumen contents from abattoirs for the production of biogas, which is a clean energy alternative.

He recalled how members of the ACTUATE team visited their abattoirs to source for cattle rumen to feed the biodigester in the UNIBEN ACTUATE Biogas Project site. Ezemonye informed the abattoir operators that the cattle rumen collected had undergone an anaerobic digestion process and had started producing gas ( biogas), which will be used to generate electricity.

He urged participants to consider starting a pilot AD project in their various abattoirs, so as to harness the inherent benefits of the technology.

Ezemonye also told the abattoir operators that apart from generating power from the biogas, the quality of their products would improve as the biogas generated can be used to singe cowhide, which is much safer and more environmentally friendly than kerosene and tyres, which leave harmful residue after use.