[Stoves] the price of bottled gas

[Paul Olivier]

Dear A.D.

Making biogas from type 1 or type 2 waste is not ideal.
Please see:
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/22013094/Paper/Summaries/Alternative%20to%20Biodigestion.pdf

Paul


On Sat, May 4, 2013 at 8:00 AM, Anand Karve <adkarve at gmail.com> wrote:

> Dear Stovers,
> As cooking energy, biogas can easily replace LPG or CNG. Biogas gives a
> blue flame without smoke or soot, its flame intensity can be controlled at
> will and turning it on or off is as easy as LPG. Our work showed back in
> 2003 that dung is not needed for biogas production and that material like
> sugar, starch, cellulose, digestible protein and fats can all be used as
> feedstock. In our city, waste flour, swept from the floor of a flour mill
> is available for about US Cents 10 per kg. 3 kg flour give enough biogas to
> replace one kg LPG costing US Cents 80 (subsidised price) or US$1.6
> (unsubsidised price. If you have a few green leafy plants around your
> house, or have access to the local vegetable market waste, 10kg fresh green
> leaves (available for no cost) would yield enough biogas to replace about 1
> kg LPG.
> Yours
> A.D.Karve
>
> On Fri, May 3, 2013 at 4:53 PM, Paul Olivier <paul.olivier at esrla.com>wrote:
>
>>  CNN just ran a new clip about the partial lifting of subsidies for
>> bottled gas in Egypt - major point of unrest among the Egyptian people.
>> Also there is this from Reuters:
>>
>> http://uk.reuters.com/article/2013/04/01/uk-egypt-gas-idUKBRE93005I20130401
>>
>> The price of bottled gas is a huge problem throughout most of the
>> developing world. If we can design gasifiers or pyrolyzers that produce a
>> gas that can compete with bottled gas, this will have profound economic and
>> political consequences.
>>
>> The first step in making this happen lies in preparing biomass, in all of
>> its many forms, into a predictable fuel.
>>
>>  Thanks.
>> Paul Olivier
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>> Dalat
>> Vietnam
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Paul A. Olivier PhD
26/5 Phu Dong Thien Vuong
Dalat
Vietnam

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Mobile: 090-694-1573 (in Vietnam)
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