Thankyou Olivier, good to hear, I forwarded it. We should add this, eh? Thanks to you! The manual, full text online:
Nepal Biogas Plant -- Construction Manual. Construction Manual for GGC 2047 Model Biogas Plant. With Dutch and German support, Nepal's Biogas Support Programme has built 95,400 biogas plants in 10 years, with potential for half a million more. These are fixed dome biogas plants, designed in Nepal. Sizes are household-scale from 4 to 20 cubic metres. The feedstock is cattle dung and water (but other feedstocks will work just as well). For instance, the 4-cubic-metre plant requires input from 2-3 cattle, the 10-cubic-metre plant needs 6-9 cattle. This manual includes full construction details, plans and data. With thanks to Olivier Morf.
http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel_library.html#nepgas Biofuels Library - Journey to Forever Best wishes Keith
Nepal's Biogas Program Bags Coveted Award By Kunda Dixit Nepal's internationally-recognised biogas promotion program has got yet another feather in its cap. The Biogas Sector Program (BSP) has won this year's prestigious Ashden Award for Sustainable Energy, beating out hundreds of other applicants worldwide. BSP Executive Director Sundar Bajgain received the award from Prince Charles earlier this month in London at a gala ceremony at the Royal Geographical Society attended by 300 dignitaries. The citation for the 30,000 pound award says BSP won for 'outstanding achievement in using sustainable energy to improve the quality of life and protecting the environment'. Since it was launched in 1992 with Dutch and German support, BSP has built 137,000 family-size biogas plants in 66 of Nepal's 75 districts, saving 400,000 tons of firewood, 800,000 litres of kerosene and preventing 600,000 tons of greenhouse gases from escaping into the atmosphere. At a ceremony last week in Kathmandu to celebrate the award, Bajgain said the Ashden prize money would be ploughed back into BSP's cold climate biogas research, which is integrating biogas with rainwater harvesting in arid high-altitude areas of Nepal. The Ashden award coincides with the launch this weekend of Biogas: Theory and Development by the founding father of biogas research and application in Nepal, Dr Amrit Bahadur Karki, with Jagan Nath Shrestha and Sundar Bajgain. This book has everything you always wanted to know about generating methane from dung but were too hoity-toity to ask. The book is a result of Karki's lifetime of work in appropriate technology, not just in Nepal but in Africa and southeast Asia. In that sense it is a labour of love. It is also a tribute to the application of the technology in the field by the BSP. The only thing we can add is that this book should be translated into Nepali and disseminated as widely as possible so Nepali farmers benefit even more from biogas' proven benefits. Source: Nepali Times 22-28 July 2005
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