Markus,
On 10/28/2010 11:48 AM, Markus Schlattmann wrote:
HI David,
I would venture a guess that where the inlet air is being forced in
[to the batch container] by bubbling through water, and the outlet
air likewise is allowed to escape by bubbling through water, then
the only place in the system where there would be both a
potentially explosive gas mixture and the potential of a spark
would be at the evacuation point of the exiting gas mixture. Where
sufficient air is blown over the water through which the evacuating
air is exiting, then the risk of any explosion would, I would
think, be very close to zero.
Just for some additional explaintation: Those garage systems have
just one door whichs seperates the digesting room from the
atmosphere. So you need to open the door to get the old material out
of the system and put in the new material. Existing methane from the
last digestion process may get in mixture of air oxygen during this
process. I think this is the problem Yvonne is wondering about.
Yes, as she said: like Bekon (http://www.bekon-energy.de/englisch.htm:
see last picture on that page). Thus, I appreciate your clarification,
but I am puzzled. The process I attempted to describe should be easy
to implement whether in a situation where low cost is a primary
consideration, or in a shiny packaged version for a high tech system.
What have I missed here?
For getting a better idea of such garage systems you may look at
this report (2003, an independent, scientific report about one of
the first BioFerm systems, german language, but there are also a lot
of pictures to look at).
See page 24, upper image
Very clear, yes. I have seen other, similar drawings of Bekon and
Bekon-type systems in the past (and in fact included them in
presentations on biogas such as no doubt we all offer from time to
time), but this is an excellent graphic. Since I am language
impaired-- I do not speak German-- there is much which escapes me with
regard to this report. I would think that the literature in German
regarding biogas is very rich, based on what little I know.
d.
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