[Digestion] Digestion of Honey Waste

[Anand Karve]

Dear Mike,
limestone has been tested by us and it does not affect the pH of the medium.
Bamboo chips and charoal have also been used by us.
Yours
A.D.Karve

On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 12:06 PM, Mike Barnett <dreadlox at cwjamaica.com>wrote:

>     Dear Dr. Karve,
>
> Could another medium be used rather than the limestone?
> Would the limestone also affect the ph of the reactor?
>
>
> Mike Barnett
> JAMAICA
>
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>  *-------Original Message-------*
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>  *From:* Anand Karve <adkarve at gmail.com>
> *Date:* 2/15/2011 7:51:47 PM
> *To:* For Discussion of Anaerobic Digestion<digestion at lists.bioenergylists.org>
> *Subject:* Re: [Digestion] Digestion of Honey Waste
>
> Dear Grace,
>  You can convert honey into biogas. If the solution is very dilute, you may
> have to use the process called anaerobic filter. It consists of packing
> limestone chips in the digester to increase the surface area of the
> digester. The methanogenic organisms settle on the chips, and as the honey
> solution passes through the gaps in the chips, the honey gets converted into
> methane.
> Yours
> A.D.Karve
> On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 9:05 PM, Grace Foster-Reid <gfosterreid at gmail.com>wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> Is a dilute honey stream (from a honey processing plant) a suitable
> feedstock for a biodigester?
>
> Thanks much
>
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