Dear Philip, vinegar (acetic acid) is precursor of methane. CH3COOH=CH4+CO2. So it but natural that the mixture which contained vinegar produced more biogas than the control. Yours A.D.Karve
On Sun, Nov 20, 2011 at 10:47 AM, phillip manske <[email protected]> wrote: > In an effort to construct the syngas - methanation route, I formed a > thesis that manure, being as perfect as a methane microbe reactor can > that nature can build , can be reanimated and managed to produce more > biogas once the naturally occurring reactants are exhausted. > > I put four bottles of manure in a thermophile water bath. One bottle > was kept as a control and the had CO2 water, white vinegar and a > mixture thereof. These configurations produced different results. The > acetate sterilized the methanogens, the CO2 water addition produced > feeble biogas and the mixture also produced less than the control > bottle. The bottles were left for three weeks to ferment. After > that, they were left at room temperature for a week and then reheated > in the water bath. The mixture bottle produced vigorously, perhaps at > several times the usual production rate. I can't if the gas is > CO2, biogas or CH4 but if its biogas, the finding is significant. > > P. > > _______________________________________________ > Gasification mailing list > > to Send a Message to the list, use the email address > [email protected] > > to UNSUBSCRIBE or Change your List Settings use the web page > http://lists.bioenergylists.org/mailman/listinfo/gasification_lists.bioenergylists.org > > for more Gasifiers, News and Information see our web site: > http://gasifiers.bioenergylists.org/ > -- *** Dr. A.D. Karve Trustee & Founder President, Appropriate Rural Technology Institute (ARTI) _______________________________________________ Gasification mailing list to Send a Message to the list, use the email address [email protected] to UNSUBSCRIBE or Change your List Settings use the web page http://lists.bioenergylists.org/mailman/listinfo/gasification_lists.bioenergylists.org for more Gasifiers, News and Information see our web site: http://gasifiers.bioenergylists.org/
