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Bryan Sanchez Marcum, Hello,<br>
<br>
The best seed for a biogas plant is cattle dung. A biogas plant does
a similar job to a cow's gut. If dung is used as the main feed, the
plant is just using up the food that is left over from what the cows
have already used. If food is added (usually waste food), the
microbes can use more of the material. As food rots down, the right
bacteria do usually grow in the media. However, this is a matter of
chance, so adding dung means there is a source of the right
microbes. Actually a mixture of different types of dung (cow, horse,
pig etc) provides a wider range of possible microbes. <br>
<br>
Anaerobic digestion seems to require a wide range of different
microbes (both bacteria and archaea), so there is not a specific
culture that can be added. <br>
<br>
Regards,<br>
<br>
David F<br>
<br>
On 17/11/2010 10:50, Bryan Sanchez Marcum wrote:
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type="cite">I dont want to use vermiculture, I just want to see if
theres any bacteria or enzyme that could accelerate biodigestion. <br>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 6:39 PM, Theo
Bijman <span dir="ltr"><<a moz-do-not-send="true"
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Referring to the
question about vermiculture. </span><span
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lang="EN-US"> Why should you want to use vermiculture
when you have already digested solid waste that could
be applied to the fields directly? With raw manure, I
could see the advantage, as you would get a somewhat
dry, concentrated and easy to apply organic
fertilizer, without the acidifying effect of manure.
Is it the reduction in volume that is an advantage?
Or are people used to using vermiculture organic
fertilizer and do not know the usage of digested solid
waste? Maybe somebody has some thoughts about this. Do
you apply liquid waste to the composting heaps (the
liquids which remains when separating digistate into
solids and liquids?) to keep it moist?</span></p>
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lang="EN-US">Thanks</span></p>
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lang="EN-US">Matt and listers, Hello,<br>
<br>
There are two projects in South India doing
vermiculture of digestate: SKG Sangha and VK-Nardep
that have been highlighted on the list, as they both
won Ashden Awards. There are videos available for both
projects, although the one for VK-Nardep is a sequence
of still photographs taken at the time of the judge's
visit.<br>
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The Ashden Award links are: </span><span
style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New
Roman","serif"; color: black;"><a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.ashdenawards.org/winners/skgsangha"
target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;"
lang="EN-US">www.ashdenawards.org/winners/skgsangha</span></a></span><span
style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New
Roman","serif"; color: black;"
lang="EN-US"> and </span><span style="font-size:
12pt; font-family: "Times New
Roman","serif"; color: black;"><a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.ashdenawards.org/winners/vknardep"
target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;"
lang="EN-US">www.ashdenawards.org/winners/vknardep</span></a></span><span
style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New
Roman","serif"; color: black;"
lang="EN-US">. A direct link to SKG Sangha is: </span><span
style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New
Roman","serif"; color: black;"><a
moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.skgsangha.org" target="_blank"><span
style="color: blue;" lang="EN-US">www.skgsangha.org</span></a></span><span
style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New
Roman","serif"; color: black;"> <span
lang="EN-US">and to VK-Nardep is: </span></span><span
style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New
Roman","serif"; color: black;"><a
moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://vknardep.org"
target="_blank"><span style="color: blue;"
lang="EN-US">vknardep.org</span></a></span><span
style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New
Roman","serif"; color: black;"
lang="EN-US">.<br>
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</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family:
"Times New Roman","serif"; color:
black;">Regards,<br>
<br>
David Fulford<br>
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On 11/11/2010 01:33, Matt Lorig wrote: </span></p>
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the list (maybe a year or two ago) about a
vermiculture project using the digestate from
a biogas plant. I think it was in India. I
think they were using sawdust to soak up the
water and composting it for a period of time
and then introducing the worms. I can't find
the link now. Does anyone remember what I'm
talking about? Or does anyone have any info
about vermiculture combined with biogas? <br>
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