[Stoves] banana peels
Robert Taylor
rt at ms1.hinet.net
Tue Dec 6 03:07:52 CST 2011
Dear Prof. Karve
Thanks for adding the voice of experience. I was quoting, from my armchair, a New Zealand government leaflet passed on by Ken Calvert, which lists biogas yields from 20 different substrates. The table is entitled "Production of biogas from digestion of various materials at 35 deg C and suitable retention times with a loading concentration of 5% total solids". Top of the list is banana, fruit and stem (not "whole plant", as I misquoted from memory), yielding 940 liters of biogas (at 53% methane) per kg of total solids, retention time 15 days. Next are potato tuber at 880 liters and sugarbeet root at 620. Bottom of this particular list are cattle and sheep manure, at 190/180 - 220 liters. I had thought some other tropical/subtropical crops such as cassava were also listed, but that must have been another source.
Best regards
Robert Taylor
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From: Anand Karve
To: Discussion of biomass cooking stoves
Sent: Tuesday, December 06, 2011 2:55 PM
Subject: Re: [Stoves] banana peels
Dear Robert,
the pseudostems of banana are not very good. I tried to make biogas out of them but failed. If there is any trick that I am not aware of, please let me know. I think they are full of phenolic compounds which retard the activity of the methanogenic micro-organisms.
Yours
A.D.Karve
On Mon, Dec 5, 2011 at 12:33 PM, Robert Taylor <rt at ms1.hinet.net> wrote:
According to info posted on the Digestion list in the past (courtesy of Ken Calvert, I think), all parts of the banana plant make an excellent input for anaerobic digestion.
No idea whether the same applies to the water lilies just mentioned by Crispin.
Robert
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