What is biogas
- Biogas is a natural decomposing of process of decomposing of bio-waste in the absence of oxygen. The process is referred to as anaerobic (absence of oxygen) digestion. And it is a bio-logical process that converts bio-degradable material like; grass, fruits, vegetables, meets/ proteins, vats & oils, food-waste, and all manure into methane and CO2
- By creating a stable environment (bio-reactor) with constant heat and ‘required quantities of food” Anaerobic Digestion occurs producing methane gas CH4 and CO2. CH4 makes-up around 60% of the mix and CO2 and various other gasses the balance.
- It is critical to reduce the sulphur in the mix as this is very harm-full for all internal combustion machines and burning apparatus
Why biogas
It offers the:
- opportunity to convert your current “waste management problem” into an income/ savings generating solution,
- Solution to process of bio-degradable waste on-site:
- Reducing :
• Carbon foot print
• Waste problems
• Odours and un-wanted insects
• “Manure” dumps
• odours from settlement dams
• the use of un-wanted non bio-degradable chemicals in waste management process - Improve “waste water” quality
- Improve “green status” of overall plant
- Produce bio-gas that can be used to:
• Run a Combined Heat and power generator (CHP) generating you own reliable electricity supply and hot water
• Run gas boilers from methane
• clean and use methane as alternative to diesel fuel
Use of biogas
Once produced biogas can be used for the following:
- generation of electricity and heat
- replacement of LPG for heating and cooking
- as a replacement of diesel in internal combustion engines
- operation of steam boiler
- operate chillier from heat recovery