[Digestion] Biogas plant at Zoo

[Anand Karve]

Dear Rabin,
all animals, including humans, function as live biogas plants. The fecal
matter represents slurry coming out of a biogas plant. Using animal dung as
feedstock in a biogas plant is a highly inefficient way of producing
biogas. You get about 800 litres biogas from just 1 kg starch. To get the
same amount of biogas from cattle dung, you need 40 kg of it. One gets much
more energy from dung if it can be dehydrated and burned directly
Yours
A.D.Karve
On Wed, Jun 26, 2013 at 11:35 AM, Rabin Shrestha
<rshrestha at winrock.org.np>wrote:

>  Hello,****
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> Will it be a good idea to install biogas plant at zoo to manage and
> generate energy from the animal waste in the zoo???****
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> Regards,****
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> Rabin****
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