Dear Grace, it is not so difficult or complicated. If you can estimate the sugar content in the honey solution, please see to it that the daily amount of sugar entering into the digester is not more than daily 1 g per liter of digester capacity. If however, you use the technology called anaerobic filter, you can safely intoduce 5g sugar per litre of digester capacity. Since you already have honey, add a cupful of milk once in a while to provide the nitrogen, and enjoy life in a land of milk and honey. Yours A.D.Karve
On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 12:35 AM, David <da...@h4c.org> wrote: > > Grace, > > On 2/15/2011 5:05 AM, Grace Foster-Reid wrote: > > Hi All, > > Is a dilute honey stream (from a honey processing plant) a suitable > feedstock for a biodigester? > > > Theoretically, yes, although: some source of N would need to be added; the > digester would likely display a tendency toward low pH; and the stream > should not be too dilute. Further, it is likely that a good deal of thought > and effort would need to go into the feeding rate and the mechanics thereof. > > d. > -- > David William House > "The Complete Biogas Handbook" www.completebiogas.com > *Vahid Biogas*, an alternative energy consultancy www.vahidbiogas.com > > "Make no search for water. But find thirst, > And water from the very ground will burst." > (Rumi, a Persian mystic poet, quoted in *Delight of Hearts*, p. 77) > > http://bahai.us/ > > _______________________________________________ > Digestion mailing list > > to Send a Message to the list, use the email address > digest...@bioenergylists.org > > to UNSUBSCRIBE or Change your List Settings use the web page > > http://lists.bioenergylists.org/mailman/listinfo/digestion_lists.bioenergylists.org > > for more information about digestion, see > Beginner's Guide to Biogas > http://www.adelaide.edu.au/biogas/ > and the Biogas Wiki http://biogas.wikispaces.com/ > > > -- *** Dr. A.D. Karve President, Appropriate Rural Technology Institute (ARTI) *Please change my email address in your records to: adka...@gmail.com *
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