Re: Home Brew Methane Generation

[Frederick Sparber]

It was written.

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> An inverted (air purged by pushing the tank down with the drain plug removed) 6 foot diameter poly stock nesting in a 9 foot

> diameter poly stock tank  filled with water and kitchen garbage makes a do-it -yourself unit that might give you about 60 

> therms/day of 600 BTU/ft^3 methane, John.   :-)

>

 

However, other biodegradable feedstock will be required.   :-)

 

http://www.prep2003.com/methane.htm

 

"1. Electricity Generation using our Homemade 12 Volt System; this is by far the ideal. Each horsepower of our engine requires about 12, 600 BTU/hour of actual running time, as opposed to the 70,000 BTU/hour required to heat your home… since the engine is about 3.5 horsepower, and runs no more than two-three hours per day when charging batteries, the daily manure output from a half dozen cattle or a couple of hundred chickens will be plenty."

"2. Cooking: your kitchen range, if set up for natural gas, can burn methane, and requires an average of about 65,000 BTU/hour. To use it to cook your meals, and assuming about 2 hours per day of actual use, you'll need the manure from 11 cattle…or 1500 chickens!"

Lawn clippings, leaves, newsprint and toilet tissue etc.

Frederick