[Digestion] Small Scale Farm Digesters

[Vianney Tumwesige]

Thanks David,

I am checking out the link

Best regards

On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 12:37 AM, David Fulford <davidf at kingdombio.com>wrote:

>  Hello listers,
>
> These reports are now linked from the Biogas Wiki page:
> http://biogas.wikispaces.com/Links. Just a reminder (to Vianney Tumwesige
>  and everyone else) that this is a good place to start looking for more
> information in biogas.
>
> *--
> Best regards,
>  David
>   *mailto:davidf at kingdombio.com <davidf at kingdombio.com>
>
>
> Tuesday, June 21, 2011, 2:50:32 AM, you wrote:
>
>
>
>
> Hi,
>
> It has taken some time for me to post this, but here is the Royal
> Agricultural Society of England's (RASE) report on small scale UK on-farm
> digesters that we talked about earlier this year. There is a long version
> which contains all the case studies (
> http://www.rase.org.uk/what-we-do/core-purpose-agricultural-work/AD-Full-Report.pdf) and a shorter version which talks about barriers and benefits (
> http://www.rase.org.uk/what-we-do/core-purpose-agricultural-work/AD-Short-Report.pdf)
>
> Several of the AD systems proved particularly interesting. One was a
> self-built system which topped up the digester heat using thermal solar. The
> farm was a virtual showpiece for renewable energy, having solar PV, ground
> source heat pump, a wind turbine, thermal solar and  a digester! (Case study
> 10.4)
>
> A second, which had been running for more than two years, had automated
> de-gritting, so that cows could be bedded on sand or ash. It used a very low
> parasitic load on the mixing (typically about 1W/m3) and had an elevated
> belt press separator. (Case study 10.5)
>
> A third had a three-tank system which produced wonderful digestate and did
> gas scrubbing in a covered post-store. (Case study 10.9)
>
> I hope those of you who were interested in the report enjoy reading it as
> much as I enjoyed talking to the farmers and putting it together!
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Angie Bywater
>
>
>
>
>
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