Yes, digesting plant organs for biogas generation is a retting process. It may not be accelerated retting, but it allows one to use the methane that would otherwise have been wasted. Yours A.D.Karve On Sun, Aug 5, 2012 at 3:34 PM, <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Sun, 5 Aug 2012 13:40:27 +0800, Anand Karve wrote: > > >The veins and midribs of the > >leaves accumulate in the biogas plant as undigested debris. Our biogas > >plant is designed to enable the removal of the undigested debris from the > >digester, without stopping the methane production. This debris can very > >easily be briquetted in a briquette extruder provided with a 1 h.p., > single > >phase, electric motor. > > Again the biogas plant is using anaerobic conditions, do you add heat > or is ambient high enough? So the digester may be an accelerated > retting process. > > AJH > > > _______________________________________________ > Stoves 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/stoves_lists.bioenergylists.org > > for more Biomass Cooking Stoves, News and Information see our web site: > http://www.bioenergylists.org/ > > -- *** Dr. A.D. Karve Trustee & Founder President, Appropriate Rural Technology Institute (ARTI)
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