Graduate student Annette Pelegrin of Pulaski is this year’s winner of the UW-Green Bay Outstanding Thesis Award.
Pelegrin will receive her master’s degree in May in Environmental Science and Policy. Her thesis, “Technical and Economic Feasibility of Solid-liquid Separation for Digested Dairy Manure with Polymer Treatment,” was supervised by Prof. John Katers. Pelegrin will be presented the award at the UW-Green Bay Alumni Association awards program Saturday evening, April 17, at the Weidner Center.
Pelegrin’s project, which aims to make manure management more cost-effective and eco-friendly by better separating liquids from solids, was accomplished with the help of an Agricultural Development and Diversification Grant from Wisconsin’s Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection.
UW-Green Bay graduates, graduate students and even some undergraduates don’t have to travel far to get on-the-job training at “green” companies.
FEECO International and the ENCAP Corporation are just down the road from campus near the intersection of Highways 54/57 and Algoma Road.
That’s there where new technologies are developed to take otherwise waste material—from manure to metal shavings—and make it into something usable and profitable for corporations worldwide.
FEECO International makes industrial equipment to agglomerate, or pelletize, materials that may once have been destined for the landfills.
The Institute for Briquetting and Agglomeration is a group of business and technical people interested and involved in the research, development and production of briquets, pellets and other densified products and the equipment to produce them.
FEECO is has been a sponsor and supportor of the IBA for many years. FEECO is a current sponsor of the IBA with Chris Kozicki as the current Vice-President. The 31st bi-annual IBA conference was held this year in San Antonio, TX from September 27 – 30.
You can find more information about the IBA at www.agglomeration.org.
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