[Stoves] water hyacyth

[Michael N Trevor]

Thank you Anand.  I posited the question for others actually. We do no have
bodies of freash water on our atoll.
I have lookewd more there is a fair body of info. Animal feed,
biodigestion, soil building all being worked on.
Not a whole lot of large scale success.

On Wed, Jun 28, 2017 at 2:21 PM, Anand Karve <adkarve at gmail.com> wrote:

> Dear Michael,
> water hyacinth is very well suited as feedstock in biodigestion. We have
> conducted experiments with it in our Institute and I can recommend it as an
> excellent feedstock for making biogas. Being aquatic, it has very little
> lignin. Therefore its digestibility is very high. Being a plant, it has to
> be mechanically macerated before introducing it into a biogas plant.
> Yours
> A.D.Karve
>
> ***
> Dr. A.D. Karve
>
> Chairman, Samuchit Enviro Tech Pvt Ltd (www.samuchit.com)
>
> Trustee & Founder President, Appropriate Rural Technology Institute (ARTI)
>
> On Tue, Jun 27, 2017 at 1:59 PM, Michael N Trevor <mntrevor at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> A know pest and invasive species.  However a year or two back I remember
>> discussion of it beiung used as a biomass fuel. I believe the idea was to
>> harvest and process in to briquettes  What happened???  Can it produce
>> fiber for paper?
>>
>> just curious---
>>
>> Michael
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