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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Dear AD</FONT></DIV>
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<A title=adkarve@gmail.com href="mailto:adkarve@gmail.com">Anand Karve</A>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A
title=stoves@lists.bioenergylists.org
href="mailto:stoves@lists.bioenergylists.org">Discussion of biomass cooking
stoves</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Tuesday, December 07, 2010 1:02
PM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: [Stoves] Stoves Digest, Vol
4, Issue 13</DIV>
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<DIV>Dear Rajan,</DIV>
<DIV>Transporting the wet slurry from a dung based biogas plant to
the field is always a bother. One can allow the slurry to be filtered
through a bed of straw. The water in the slurry drains out, leaving the
relatively dryer slurry on the surface of the bed of straw. The
slurry, now devoid of most of its water is easier to handle and
to transport</DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial># OK!! Do you think it might be possible to
briquette the drained anaerobic residue ands a fuel or pellet? Does such
residue have greater as an agricultural supplement than as a potential fuel?
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Best wishes,</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Kevin Chisholm</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><BR>Yours</DIV>
<DIV>A.D.Karve<BR></DIV>
<DIV class=gmail_quote>On Tue, Dec 7, 2010 at 11:58 PM, Kevin <SPAN
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class=gmail_quote>Dear Rajan<BR>----- Original Message ----- From: <<A
href="mailto:rajan_jiby@dataone.in"
target=_blank>rajan_jiby@dataone.in</A>><BR>To: "Kevin" <<A
href="mailto:kchisholm@ca.inter.net"
target=_blank>kchisholm@ca.inter.net</A>>; "Discussion of biomass cooking
stoves" <>>><BR>
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class=gmail_quote><BR>Dear Kevin,<BR><BR>Well, we also use biogas plants
where animal dung is a major feedstock.<BR><BR>Here the energy part comes
out as methane ( which is used as fuel ) and the slurry from the plant
contains all the nutrients ( without any loss ).<BR></BLOCKQUOTE><BR>I have
no experience with biogas plants run on animal manure. Is the slurry from a
biogas plant filterable? If so, would it potentially make a fuel equivalent
or superior to dung that was burned directly, with no washing?<BR><BR>As I
understand it, Richard Stanley uses a retting process on biomass, to develop
binding characteristics for his holey briquette feed. Would the drained
solids from a biodigester perhaps have better "binder characteristics than
freshly washed dung? Perhaps Righard has already explored this
avenue?<BR><BR>Best wishes,<BR><BR>Kevin<BR><BR><BR>
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