[Digestion] Biogas plant at Zoo

[David]

Rabin,

On 6/25/2013 11:05 PM, Rabin Shrestha wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> Will it be a good idea to install biogas plant at zoo to manage and 
> generate energy from the animal waste in the zoo???
>

There are a substantial number of zoos (as other posters have noted) 
using biogas: Munich, Heidelberg 
<http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=de&u=http://www.heatgroup.at/heatbio/index.php%3Fid%3D5%26sid%3D8%26country%3D1&prev=/search%3Fq%3D%2522Biogasanlage%2BZoo%2BHeidelberg%2522%26biw%3D1124%26bih%3D595>, 
Toronto <https://www.facebook.com/zooshare>, Johannesburg, Denver, 
others. Some work has been done on the generation of biogas from the 
manure of zoo animals, either in or out of zoos:

        Energy Production from Zoo Animal Wastes, Klasson et al, 2003.
        (article
        <http://www.rhinoresourcecenter.com/pdf_files/123/1238059703.pdf>,
        poster <http://www.ornl.gov/sci/eere/PDFs/Zoodoopost.pdf>)
        Biogas Production from Elephant Dung, National Elephant
        Institute, 2004 (hard to find)
        Biogas from elephant dung: a means of mitigating
        human-elephant conflict, Wijeyamohan, 2003 (article
        <http://www.asesg.org/PDFfiles/Gajah/22-62-Wijeyamohan.pdf>)
                       ...and the very interesting...
        Panda poop may be a treasure trove of microbes for making
        biofuels, Williams, 2011 (news release
        <http://www.acs.org/content/acs/en/pressroom/newsreleases/2011/august/panda-poop-may-be-a-treasure-trove-of-microbes-for-making-biofuels.html>)



d.
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