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ALTERNATIVE ENERGY ENGINEERING Alternative Energy Engineering includes wind, solar, and biomass fuel systems. Alternative Energy Engineering reduces the money spent on increasingly expensive oil. Projects: Bunge Plant (formerly Gold Kist Soy Plant) - Decatur, Alabama 
Construction of an experimental solar energy system for drying soybeans at Gold Kist Soy in Decatur, AL is complete. In the photo, the system, located in the foreground, resembles a section of a stadium's spectator stands. Reisz Engineers developed systems that use solar energy in modern industrial processes. At the Bunge Plant (Gold Kist Soy Plant), solar energy was used in the processing of soybeans into vegetable oil and high protein meal. 
From "The Huntsville Times" by Barry J. Casebolt, Times Science Editor, June 13, 1976. Reisz provides a solar energy system at Gold Kist under a U.S. Energy Research and Development Administration (ERDA) Project. Teledyne Brown Engineering of Huntsville and Reisz Engineers collected solar radiation through which air is drawn. The air is heated by convection from a plate which is in turn heated by solar radiation. Click here to read full article.  From "Solar Energy For Industrial Drying Of Soybeans," by Al Reisz and Henry F. Magill, from Soy Digest, January 1977.  From "Solar Energy For Industrial Drying Of Soybeans," by Al Reisz and Henry F. Magill, from Soy Digest, January 1977.  From "Solar Energy For Industrial Drying Of Soybeans," by Al Reisz and Henry F. Magill, from Soy Digest, January 1977.  From "Solar Energy For Industrial Drying Of Soybeans," by Al Reisz and Henry F. Magill, from Soy Digest, January 1977. From "Solar Heating Is Here," Progressive Farmer, February 1977. Click here for full article. 
From "Soybean Processing with Solar Energy" by Al Reisz, P.E., ASME, Presented at the Winter Annual Meeting in New York, NY, December 1979. Describes a solar energy system used in soybean processing at the Nation's largest soybean processing plant, Gold Kist Soy Plant in Decatur, Alabama. Under a program sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy, Teledyne Brown Engineering and Reisz Engineers designed a fossil-fuel solar heating system to supply industrial heat for drying soybeans at the Gold Kist Plant. Click here to read full article. Reisz Engineers designed a fossil-fuel solar heating system for this Gold Kist plant. Test Results on Lignite (Gulf Coast) Properties and Potential Uses of Gulf Coast Lignite by Al Reisz, P.E., ASME, Presented at the Winter Annual Meeting in Miami Beach, Florida, November 1985. Presents information and test results pertaining to the properties of Gulf Coast lignite. Comparisons are made with similar low-grade coal being burned commercially and potential uses are identified. The results of testing found that the Gulf Coast has combustible lignite coal with calorific value comparable to other lignite reserves being used. Sites in this area are available which will be attractive to a cross section of industry. Testing of Alabama lignite shows it to have low ash fouling characteristics and is suitable for industrial use. |
