How to make and use biogas
A brief outline of the first day of the workshop
- Ecology, History, and activism
- Anaerobic life is the most ancient form of life
- The reality of climate change
- Ignorance is poverty; poverty is ignorance
- How Biogas relates to these problems, and provides some solutions
- Overviews
- Basically: all energy is solar energy
- Biogas: keep it away from oxygen, keep it warm, keep it wet
- Some videos about biogas
- Four stages of digestion
- The magic of WWABCSE
- Parameters
- TS, VS, FS
- C/N
- Temperature
- Percentage of H2O
- Loading Rate and HRT
- Agitation
- Toxins
- Pressure and Surface Area
- pH
- Gas production per digester volume
- Questions
- Substrates
- Purified Substances
- Manure Substrates
- Plant Substrates
- On Growing Substrates
- Substrate analysis: practical techniques
- Uses
- Illumination
- Cooking
- Engines
- Gas Requirements
- Troubleshooting
- Cultures
- Startup: practical techniques
- Scum
- Sediment
- Design
- What’s on the DVD you got in this class?
- Basic Digester Types
- Design Process
- Plans
- Underground digesters (Indian and Chinese)
- ARTI digesters
- Plastic bag digesters
- Hestia 'Home Biogas' digester (now failed)
- Press plastic digester (superceded)
- [The_Cube] and how it relates to what we've learned
- VIII: Appendices
- Appendix 1:Analysis
- Appendix 2:Biohydrogen
- Appendix 3:Agricultural Use of Effluent
- Appendix 4:Math of Gas Production
- Appendix 5:Specific Gravity
- Appendix 6:Drill Statistics
- Appendix 7:Burner Design
- Appendix 8:Vital Statistics of Gases
- Appendix 9:K and C Values
- Appendix 10:Steam Temperature, Pressure, Water Depth
- Appendix 11:Heat Transfer in Pipes
- Appendix 12:Decimals and Fractions
- Appendix 13:Geometry, Trig
- Appendix 14:Metric Conversion
- Appendix 15:A Simple Method for Temperature Conversion
- Appendix 16:Terms
- Appendix 17:The Answers
- Appendix 18:Bibliography
- Appendix 19:Author’s Afterword
- Appendix 20:Contents, Figures, and Tables
- Appendix 21:Index and Authors
