[Digestion] Digestion of Honey Waste

[Grace Foster-Reid]

Thanks folks for the quick response!

We plan to use the dilute clean streams for mead production (honey wine -
alchohol)

The contaminated (minimal dirt) streams will be sent to the digester.  I
will investigate the anaerobic filter with the addition of milk or some
other farm waste for nitrogen.




On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 10:14 PM, Anand Karve <adkarve at gmail.com> wrote:

> Dear Grace,
> it is not so difficult or complicated. If you can estimate the sugar
> content in the honey solution, please see to it that the daily amount of
> sugar entering into the digester is not more than daily 1 g per liter of
> digester capacity. If however, you use the technology called anaerobic
> filter, you can safely intoduce 5g sugar per litre of digester capacity.
> Since you already have honey, add a cupful of milk once in a while to
> provide the nitrogen, and enjoy life in a land of milk and honey.
> Yours
> A.D.Karve
>
> On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 12:35 AM, David <david at h4c.org> wrote:
>
>>
>> Grace,
>>
>> On 2/15/2011 5:05 AM, Grace Foster-Reid wrote:
>>
>> Hi All,
>>
>> Is a dilute honey stream (from a honey processing plant) a suitable
>> feedstock for a biodigester?
>>
>>
>> Theoretically, yes, although: some source of N would need to be added; the
>> digester would likely display a tendency toward low pH; and the stream
>> should not be too dilute. Further, it is likely that a good deal of thought
>> and effort would need to go into the feeding rate and the mechanics thereof.
>>
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