[Stoves] Biogas backpack

[Anand Karve]

Dear Paul,
the method suggested by me is ultimately aimed at adding value to food
waste. The value addition through a food chain is ideal, but not
practicable in a city. especially in a community which is predominently
vegetarian. Rearing worms is not very popular as it attracts vermin
like flies, cockroaches, rats, stray cats, stray dogs, crows, etc. My
computer is really very clever. When I type the word vermicompost on it,
it automatically corrects it to vermincompost.
Yours
A.D.Karve
On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 12:20 PM, Paul Olivier <paul.olivier at esrla.com>wrote:

> Making biogas from food waste of a normal dry matter content is roughly
> the same as making fuel from food or feed.
> Whenever and wherever possible, it is best to feed food waste to pigs.
> The feces of the pig is then fed to BSF larvae, and the residue of the
> larvae is fed to red worms.
> The residue of the larvae can be mixed with biochar before it is fed to
> red worms.
> The residue of the red worm along with biochar is returned to the soil.
>
> If there is no possibility of feeding food waste to pigs,
> then food waste can be fed to larvae, and the larval residue goes on to
> red worms.
>
> All of this is explained on my website: http://www.esrla.com/
> On BSF larvae, see specifically : http://esrla.com/pdf/landfill_04.pdf
> On integrated pig farming, see: http://esrla.com/pdf/landfill_09.pdf
> See also the conclusion to the paper: http://esrla.com/pdf/landfill_10.pdf
> Also there is a postscript that I have just written and not yet posted:
> http://esrla.com/pdf/landfill_14.pdf
>
> When energy is needed, we should give priority to gasification:
> http://esrla.com/pdf/landfill_06.pdf
> Of course we should only gasify biomass that has no food or feed value.
>
> However I do believe that there is an important place for biogas plants.
> This is a wonderful technology to handle liquids that contain relatively
> small amounts of putrescent material.
> For example, I am currently designing a fixed film biogas reactor to
> process the effluent from coffee milling machines.
>
> I propose that:
>
>    1. dry coffee husks be gasified,
>    2. wet coffee pulp will be fermented and fed to pigs (followed by BSF
>    and red worms),
>    3. coffee effluent be routed to a fixed film biogas reactor.
>
> The heat from the burning of the biogas can be used to dry wet coffee
> beans.
>
> In processing waste materials we should always have many options before us.
>
> Thanks.
> Paul
>
>
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