[Digestion] A Chinese Biogas Manual

[Bruno M.]

About that classic book, " A Chinese Biogas Manual" edited by Ariane van Buren,
you can of course buy it from amazon and the like, but on this site
you can download it as a zipped 12.6 MB PDF file ( made from a microfiche ).
Anyway it may be useful as a first glimp on the book.
This site, from Alex Weir, is full of downloads ( 900+ free downloads)
aimed at the 3rd world, so it is a good link to put at your bookmarks or favorites
 
<www.fastonline.org/CD3WD_40/CD3WD/INDEX.HTM>

For the Biogas Manual scroll far down to  " Part 32 "
more specific : " Part 32 - cd3wd432.zip - Offline - A Chinese Biogas Manual "
or click here for a direct download: 
<www.fastonline.org/CD3WD_40/JF/432/24-572.pdf>

hope this helps somehow.
;-)
Bruno M.
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At 21:19 11/02/2008, Warren Weismann ~wrote:

>Mr. Karve, 
>
>Your digester at Aprovecho outside Eugene, Oregon does
>not work and has caused me considerable difficulty
>trying to increase awareness of biogas in the American
>Pacific Northwest. I regularly encounter people who
>think that biogas does not even exist. Additionally,
>the food waste digester at the Oregon State University
>was abandoned as too complicated. 
>
>I teach and practice the Chinese example, as outlined
>in "A Chinese Biogas Manual" edited by Ariane van
>Buren, who have tens of millions of operating 10 cubic
>meter pit-type digesters that co-digest crop waste,
>food waste and toilet waste. The Chinese stress using
>a healthy mix of what is readily available over gas
>yields and rarely fail to produce 1 cubic meter of gas
>per day rain or shine summer or winter. 
>
>You can all choose thick scientific journals or
>computer estimating software, but in my opinion, this
>is the most useful book about biogas in existence and
>anybody would be foolish to consider a digester or a
>biogas program without a copy of it. 
>
>Warren Weisman
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>--- adkarve <adkarve at pn2.vsnl.net.in> wrote:
>
>> I have been working on biomethanation of food waste
>> since 2002. It is my experience that 1 kg of practically all the food
>> that humans eat would give a kg of biogas. 
>> Also many non-foods like oilcakes of non-edible oilseeds,
>> nonedible rhizomes, corms and tubers, etc. a kg of biogas for a kg of
>> feedstock. We found that starchy, sugary, proteinous or fatty matter was far
>> superior to dung, distillery effluent, sewage, etc.
>> Methane production takes just 24 hours of reaction time with this type of
>> material. We now provide urban dwellers with compact biogas plants, costing
>> approximately US$250 each. We have so far installed 3000 of them and are
>> currently installing 100 per month.
>> Yours
>> A.D.Karve
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: Bruno M. <brunoM1 at telenet.be>
>> Sent: Monday, February 11, 2008 10:58 PM
>> Subject: Re: [Digestion] BIOMET model by Mushoe - other models available
>> And the working link is
>> <www.softplus.net/produkte/biogase.asp>
>> 
>> ;-)
>> Bruno M.
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