Methane Production Guide - How to Make Biogas. Three simple anaerobic digesters for home construction: Generate your own renewable energy from waste
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Methane Production Guide - How to Make Biogas. Three simple anaerobic digesters for home construction: Generate your own renewable energy from waste
This (2012 edition) booklet is approximately 5,000 words long and approximately 24 pages with 9 diagrams. The booklet describes making an anaerobic digester using an oil drum and a rubber inner tube as the gas storage vessel as well as a larger continuous digester. The book also contains diagrams, list of materials and websites for further reading.
Methane or biogas is a colourless, odourless, flammable gas and the main constituent, 85% to 90%, of the piped natural gas that we use in our homes in the UK, Europe and the USA. Methane can be made using simple apparatus and a process known as anaerobic digestion. Anaerobic digestion is one of the most common biological procedures in nature, as the name implies, it means to carry or breakdown in the absence of air. Once you know the principles of this process it is possible to make biogas in small or large quantities from a variety of waste materials.
The gas produced can be used for cooking and heating and even for running a gas engine. Contents Preface About the editor Basic properties of methane Anaerobic digestion Modest experiment in methane gas production Simple anaerobic digester Batch digester construction Further information Biogas websites and other information About the publisher Disclaimer