[Digestion] Digestion Digest, Vol 19, Issue 11

[adkarve]

Dear David,
India is full of small Honda generators that generate half a kilowatt.
Normally they run on petrol or kerosene, but one of our staff members
regularly uses biogas from his ARTI biogas plant to operate his domestic
Honda generator. He told me that he can watch TV and also light two
fluorescent tube lights simultaneously. We have also run a Kinetic Honda
scooter using our own biogas, which was compressed and filled into a
cylinder. ARTI biogas plant has a digester of 1000 litre capacity. It
accepts daily about half a bucket full of food waste (about 1 kg dry weight)
to produce daily about 600 litres of biogas. By the Kirloskar Oil Engines in
Pune have started to work again on developing an engine that would run on
biogas.
Yours
A.D.Karve
----- Original Message -----
From: David Fulford <d.j.fulford at reading.ac.uk>
To: Alex Marshall <alexm at Clarke-Energy.com>; <digestion at listserv.repp.org>;
<jhapchandra at gmail.com>
Sent: Thursday, January 24, 2008 7:09 PM
Subject: Re: [Digestion] Digestion Digest, Vol 19, Issue 11


> Alex, Greetings,
>
> Unfortunately, the small-scale systems that are required in many Indian
> (and elsewhere) require 5 kW gas engines or smaller. Prakash was looking
> for a 0.5 kW engine. Do you know of suppliers that do this size of engine?
>
> Kirlowskar in India, used to supply a 5 kW dual fuel engine, but this is
> not now available.
>
> A Stirling engine would work well, but the technology is so new that it is
> still very expensive.
>
> Prakash: actually most of the generic answers are in Cogen:
>
http://www.cogen.org/cogen-challenge/Downloadables/Technology_Checklist_2607
06.pdf
>
> Cheers,
>
> David
>
> At 11:43 24/01/2008 +0000, Alex Marshall wrote:
> >Hello Prakash
> >
> >I work for a company called Clarke Energy that is the distibutor for
> >Jenbacher gas engines. We also work with HAASE to develop projects
> >involving anaerobic digestion. 0.5MW engines are available, the costs
> >depend upon whether you want them containerised, whether you want
> >combined heat and power capabilities.
> >
> >Kind regards
> >
> >Alex
>
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