[Gasification] Reanimation of biogas production from biogas depleted manure

[Anand Karve]

Dear Philip,
vinegar (acetic acid) is precursor of methane. CH3COOH=CH4+CO2. So it
but natural that the mixture which contained vinegar produced more
biogas than the control.
Yours
A.D.Karve

On Sun, Nov 20, 2011 at 10:47 AM, phillip manske <pdmanske at gmail.com> wrote:
> In an effort to construct the syngas - methanation route, I formed a
> thesis that manure, being as perfect as a methane microbe reactor can
> that nature can build , can be reanimated and managed to produce more
> biogas once the naturally occurring reactants are exhausted.
>
> I put four bottles of manure in a thermophile water bath.  One bottle
> was kept as a control and the had CO2 water, white vinegar and a
> mixture thereof.  These configurations produced different results. The
> acetate sterilized the methanogens, the CO2 water addition produced
> feeble biogas and the mixture also produced less than the control
> bottle.  The bottles were left for three weeks to ferment.  After
> that, they were left at room temperature for a week and then reheated
> in the water bath.  The mixture bottle produced vigorously, perhaps at
> several times the usual production rate.     I can't if the gas is
> CO2, biogas or CH4 but if its biogas, the finding is significant.
>
> P.
>
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Dr. A.D. Karve
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