[Digestion] AD in India: Experience with ARTI / BARC technology

[David Fulford]

Christian, Hi

I visited ARTI on behalf of the Ashden Awards 
(http://www.ashdenawards.org/winners/arti06) last year. They seem to be 
installing a large number of units in Maharashtra (700 in total a year ago) 
and the demand for units seems high. I visited a number of customers who 
seemed very enthusiastic about their purchase. Ashden Awards made a video 
which I have made available (at different quality/download rates) on: 
http://www.extra.rdg.ac.uk/eng/energy/Video/.

This year I visited another, very similar project - Biotech in Kerala, 
South India. The information about it should go up on the Ashden Award 
website after about 2 months. There should be a video of this project as 
well. Biotech are turning food waste into biogas on a range of scales: 
household (as with ARTI), institutional and municipal.

The Indian government (national, state and local) are very committed to 
this approach and offer these groups strong support.

Cheers,

David F.

At 14:21 10/05/2007 +0200, Mueller, Christian wrote:

>Dear all,
>
>Do you have information about the biogas plants of ARTI
>(www.arti-india.org) or BARC (http://www.barc.ernet.in/)? I'd like to
>know more about the state-of-the-art of these "low-cost" technologies.
>Do they work on a regular basis? What have been the experiences until
>now?
>
>Best regards
>
>Christian
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