[Bioconversion] Conserve -- Sago, best usage for conversion

[Harmon Seaver]

rkurt at tadaust.org.au wrote:
>>   
> Ferment the starch for sure, digesting the remaining pith will take 
> large scale plant if you're envisioning the usual methane digestion. It 
> will be no better, in fact likely much worse than cowdung. Cowdung after 
> all has a lot of cudchewing involved in it's production. I would expect 
> several weeks of residence time per bolus of pith.

    I'm not sure about the pith itself, but the starch processes very
quickly in a digester, as Dr. Karve has show with his award winning
digester design at ARTI. It might be better to extract the starch and
digest that alone and gasify the pith. Depends on how woody the pith is
and how easily it breaks down, I guess.


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Harmon Seaver