Biogas Resources
Beginner's Guide to Biogas, maintained by Paul Harris at the
University of Adelaide
http://www.adelaide.edu.au/biogas/
Biogas Wiki
http://biogas.wikispaces.com/
The Digestion email discussion list, "For Discussion of Anaerobic Digestion"
http://lists.bioenergylists.org/mailman/listinfo/digestion_lists.bioenergylists.org
Digestion Archives — from August 2004. No search function, but the full text of each month's discussions can be downloaded (zip file) and searched on your hard-disk.
http://listserv.repp.org/pipermail/digestion_listserv.repp.org/
Methane Digesters, by Beth Doerr and Nate Lehmkuhl, ECHO Technical Note, 2001, 2008 — 7-page pdf
http://echonet.org/repositories#138:d:Biogas.08
Biogas, Practical Action, Technical Information Online
http://practicalaction.org/practicalanswers/product_info.php?products_id=42
The Biogas Digest, from GTZ, the German 3rd World development agency — in English:
- Vol. I: Biogas Basics https://www.gtz.de/de/dokumente/en-biogas-volume1.pdf Vol. II: Biogas Application and Product Development https://www.gtz.de/de/dokumente/en-biogas-volume2.pdf Vol. III: Biogas Costs and Benefits / Biogas Programme https://www.gtz.de/de/dokumente/en-biogas-volume3.pdf Vol. IV: Biogas Country Reports, GTZ-GATE, 1999 https://www.gtz.de/de/dokumente/en-biogas-volume4.pdf Engines for Biogas, GTZ-GATE, 1988 — 164-page pdf ebook (6.6 Mb download) http://bit.ly/BiogasEngines
Methane Digesters For Fuel Gas and Fertilizer, With Complete Instructions For Two Working Models -- by L. John Fry, Santa Barbara, Calif. 93103, © 1973, Eighth Printing (out of print). Excellent manual on making and using methane -- biogas. Fry developed his techniques while running a pig farm in South Africa, designing the first full scale displacement methane plant. Good information on integrating biogas production with gardening and farming, and with pond-culture food production. Designs for a Sump Digester using 55-gal oil drums and an Inner Tube Digester. With thanks to Kirk McLoren.
Interview: L. John Fry
Interview: Ram Bux Singh
Nepal Biogas Plant -- Construction Manual. Construction Manual for GGC 2047 Model Biogas Plant. With Dutch and German support, Nepal's Biogas Support Programme has built 95,400 biogas plants in 10 years, with potential for half a million more. These are fixed dome biogas plants, designed in Nepal. Sizes are household-scale from 4 to 20 cubic metres. The feedstock is cattle dung and water (but other feedstocks will work just as well). For instance, the 4-cubic-metre plant requires input from 2-3 cattle, the 10-cubic-metre plant needs 6-9 cattle. This manual includes full construction details, plans and data. With thanks to Olivier Morf.
Jean Pain: France's King of Green Gold -- In the 1980s Frenchman Jean Pain built a home-made power plant that he claimed supplied 100% of his energy needs. The core of the system was a 50-ton compost mound, three metres high and six across, made of pulverized tree limbs and underbrush. Buried inside the compost was a 4-cubic-metre sealed steel tank 3/4-full of the same compost, producing methane -- bio-gas. Tubes connected the tank to a pile of 24 truck-tyre inner tubes, the gas reservoir. Pain said he used the gas to cook all the food, fuel a truck and produce electricity, via a methane-fuelled internal combustion engine that turned a generator. The truck ran off two gas bottles on the roof. Another tube ran from a well and into the heap, with 200 metres of tubing wound round the tank; Pain said the water emerged at 60 deg C at 4 litres a minute, which was enough for central heating, and for the bathroom and the kitchen. The compost heap continued fermenting for nearly 18 months, and then yielded 50 tons of natural fertilizer. (With thanks to Ramjee Swaminathan.)
A Chinese Biogas Manual -- Popularising Technology in the Countryside, edited by Ariane van Buren from the original by the Office of the Leading Group for the Propagation of Marshgas, Sichuan (Szechuan) Province, Peoples' Republic of China, technical editor Leo Pyle, translator Michael Crook, Intermediate Technology Publications, 1979, original publishers: Science Publishing House, 1976, China, ISBN 0 903031 65 5 -- 12.6Mb pdf
Compost, fertilizer, and biogas production from human and farm wastes in the People's Republic of China. Ottawa, IDRC, 1978, ISBN 0-88936-140-l, 94p. Editors Michael G. McGarry and Jill Stainforth, translated by Lee Thim Loi from "A Compilation of Data on the Experience and Sanitary Management of Excreta and Urine in the Village", published by The People's Hygiene Publisher, People's Republic of China. 7.8Mb pdf
Biogas technology in the Third World: a multidisciplinary review, Andrew Barnett, Leo Pyle, S. K. Subramanian, IDRC, Ottawa, Ont., 1978, ISBN O-88936-162-2, 132 p. 14.4Mb pdf
Biogas Systems in lndia, by Robert Jon Lichtman, VITA/COSTED, ISBN O-86619-167-4, 1983, 142pp. 11.7Mb pdf
Biogas and Waste Recycling -- The Philippine Experience, by Felix DI Maramba, Sr., 1978, Liberty Flour Mills, Philippines, 32.3Mb pdf
Biogas plants in animal husbandry -- a practical guide, by Uli Werner, Ulrich Stöhr, Nicolai Hees, GATE/GTZ, 1989, ISBN J-528-02048-2, 157 pp. 17.2Mb pdf
Tubular Plastic Bio-digesters in Tanzania, Viet Nam, Zimbabwe & China, selected & edited by John Furze, 1997/1998/2002, University of Aarhus, Denmark, 257pp. 24.3Mb pdf
How To Install A Polyethylene Biogas Plant, by Francisco X. Aguilar, Agronomic Engineer, Royal Agricultural College, Cirencester (991 kb pdf)
Biogas: What it is; How it is made; How to use it -- FAO Better Farming Series 31 (read online at Alex Weir's CD 3rd World online library):
http://www.cd3wd.com/cd3wd_40/cd3wd/apprtech/fb31be/en/b96.htm
Biogas 2: Building a Better Biogas Unit -- FAO Better Farming Series 32 (read online at Alex Weir's CD 3rd World online library):
http://www.cd3wd.com/cd3wd_40/cd3wd/apprtech/fb32be/en/b97.htm
