[Digestion] Orange Peels

Anand Karve adkarve at gmail.com
Thu Jun 23 22:47:50 CDT 2011


Dear Tom,
the peels can be charred in a charring kiln of the TLUD as well as of
the oven and retort type. If the essential oil has been extracted from
the peel, it can serve as feedstock in a biogas plant, but if the
essential oil has not been extracted, I don't think that the peel
could be digested in a biogas plant as the sole substrate, because the
essential oil in the peel may kill the methanogens. But mixed with
other material, it can be digested. One would have to conduct
experiments to find out the correct ratio of peel to other substances.
Yours
A.D.Karve
On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 12:47 AM, Tom Miles <tmiles at trmiles.com> wrote:
> I've had an inquiry from Southern Africa about orange peels. Does anyone
> have experience carbonizing or gasifying orange peels?
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> Do they make gas in an ARTI style compact digester?
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> Can you char them? ( If you can char an apple or a pizza I guess you can
> char an orange.)
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> Tom Miles
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