You have my genuine thanks for taking the time and effort to educate us on bio-gas and compressing it to make a much more practical and useful application. Liked, subscribed and thumbs up! Again, THANK YOU VERY MUCH SIR!!!
XPRISE CARBON PARTICLE CAPTURE The heat loss from a smokestack can be forced into a large tank containing hot liquid microcrystalline petroleum wax. The heat will keep the wax at a molten state which facilitate the carbon to be absorbed when combined with the wax. Carbon when mixed with wax reacts like a dye. The wax-carbon amalgamation result in a black wax solution thereby making it impossible for the carbon to escape into the environment. Other toxic particles are also captured in the wax settling at the bottom of the wax holding tank forming into a sludge. A sludge release valve is located at the bottom of the tank. After the sludge is removed more wax is replaced in the vessel working something like a toilet. The sludge becomes a byproduct that can be used as an additive to asphalt for roads or used for cocooning nuclear waste materials for long-term safe burial. The entropy of the Earth has been increasing at a startling rate since the beginning of the industrial revolution caused mainly by the carbon that is released into the atmosphere. Government scientists have failed to stop and prevent carbon pollution from entering the environment. This problem can only worsen until a solution is found before this problem becomes irreversible. It has been discovered that formulated wax has been shown to be the only answer to this problem. William Nelson waxogen@gmail.com
Hello my friend. I´ve been looking for some time about how to do this. The horrendous experience with the authoritarian regime in my country, #Venezuela, has made me to find alternative ways to provide fuel for my modest needs: cooking and fueling my vehicles, an SUV and a motorcycle. After reading some really useful documents I´ve found that moisture needs to be retrieved from the gas (fitting an inline silica gel filter, maybe from a car air conditioning) and a scrubber (an enclosed vessel filled up with steel wool) which will react with the sulfides and sulfates and will avoid the corrosion associated to sulphurs. I´ve not yet built it because of my return was stopped by the Quarantine but I´m going to use your videos as a guide. Thanks for sharing, dude! P.S. PLease people remember this gas explodes. Use your common sense.
The idea for having an aquarium heater is great. Here is how you avoid cleaning it. Place it i a separate pvc pipe cylinder with antifreeze in it. Seal it off so it will not leak. place it in a uniseal at the lower part of the container. This will work and keep it effective for heating the effluent.
Watched your 1st gen vid a few times, loved it, and now an update. I'm going to be putting together a similar system next year on an off-grid farm in Spain - you gave me the inspiration to compress the CH4 into a used propane tank. This will be used to top up a solar heated heat sink (multiple 1000 litre insulated IBCs full of water for an UFH system). Thanks for taking the time to inspire us, you're a legend.
XPRISE CARBON PARTICLE CAPTURE The heat loss from a smokestack can be forced into a large tank containing hot liquid microcrystalline petroleum wax. The heat will keep the wax at a molten state which facilitate the carbon to be absorbed when combined with the wax. Carbon when mixed with wax reacts like a dye. The wax-carbon amalgamation result in a black wax solution thereby making it impossible for the carbon to escape into the environment. Other toxic particles are also captured in the wax settling at the bottom of the wax holding tank forming into a sludge. A sludge release valve is located at the bottom of the tank. After the sludge is removed more wax is replaced in the vessel working something like a toilet. The sludge becomes a byproduct that can be used as an additive to asphalt for roads or used for cocooning nuclear waste materials for long-term safe burial. The entropy of the Earth has been increasing at a startling rate since the beginning of the industrial revolution caused mainly by the carbon that is released into the atmosphere. Government scientists have failed to stop and prevent carbon pollution from entering the environment. This problem can only worsen until a solution is found before this problem becomes irreversible. It has been discovered that formulated wax has been shown to be the only answer to this problem. William Nelson waxogen@gmail.com
Cheers from America, thanks for putting this content out. Been searching for info on utilizing biogas in an offgrid homestead we're getting ready to start next month.
I know that is an older video, but have you considered using a fridge/freezer compressor instead? Uses a fraction of the power to run, and reaches a higher pressure, like 400psi. through a pressure switch on it,, and you could automate it. Also runs much cooler, and the lubrication can be handled by a self built oil accumulator
He said in the video you can't go much higher with the pressure because in order to do that you would need liquid nitrogen to cool the gas into liquid. Not practical for at home unless you have a liquid nitrogen. If I understand correctly highly compressed hydrogen is dangerous if it's not in Liquid form
Love the OK at everything, pro at nothing. That is my disposition. I have a Home BioGas II digester and am so close to off grid American. Storing Biogas is my new problem so thanks very much for your demonstration!
I know this is a few years late BUT have you thought about using dry ice against a kind of heat exchanger before the gas goes into the cylinder? Ideally, the gas would cool to near 195K (Dry ice temp) and then when the temperature rose back up to ~20C the pressure in the tank would be about 240PSI (if the initial pressure was 160PSI). It could be a cheap (ish) way to test cooling the gas for higher compression with the existing compressor.
Bro hahahaha..."I'm just a dude in a shed with some plastic tubes"...thx,for the vid and the great side note reminder...I think its important to say,as the first step is always the scariest...so u encourage people...all the best,greetings from Germany...subbed :)
Please make a more detailed video of how to diy the compression and storing process so that beginners can start right away ... And also to provide a guide on what items to buy and their specifications
Wow I love what you’re doing friend! How long does the 45kg tank last? Did I detect a gas leak when you shut off your air compressor? How long did it take for the large bag to fill up? Any thought on instant hot water with methane and space heaters? Keep the movement going brother. Sending love from Vancouver Island!
Center Enamel Bolted steel tanks have a large variety of system applications, mainly including fire protection water storage tank, potable water tank, anaerobic digester, biogas tank, dry bulk storage tank, leachate tank, municipal sewage tank.
My question 1.what about previous lpg gas in cylinder 2 how much pressure required for filling & suggest compressor 3 how mush gas is stored in that cylinder Very informative video
Looking awesome, Nice seeing your biogas videos and how to make and use it. My ibc tank has been giving me the runaround. Take a look at my biogas videos. Keep them coming the videos never get old.
Awesome !! mate thanks for great video just found out about biogas 1hr ago on USA video I'm using 20lt bucket for toilet and buying gas . This is gunna change my world . Thanks again for the great work I just subscribed and am looking forward to watching all your vids
Hey man, i have a house, it is not finished. Septic tank is made from two seperated concrete pipes, about 5 m3 (cubic) of space. Now with this idea im inspired and im thinking how to convert it for biogas production. Human waste and rest of the vegetables in the kitchen.
Brave man. Testing the gas without a flashback arrester. 😲😲 Mate Pls look up flashback arrester before you get Hurt. All the best take care and thanks for the videos.
The electrical consumption surely exceeded the energy in btu from the gas available. Best to just use the gas at low pressure in large bags or else it essentially makes a worthless process. The only way I am aware for this to make any sense is that it was a compressor fueled by the bio gas itself to compress the bio gas. Thats the reason wellhead gas is transported from the wellhead to the refinery by compressors that are run by the very gas they are transporting. Love the experimenting though! Always fun to watch!
Goof info, mate. I have tried a while ago with a 100L plastic tank and cow poo, it worked once, did fire in the stove, but then my plastic thingy broke. I had issues with gas leakage at the connections aswell. Now I am gathering more information and planning to build with a IBC 1000L tank, and hopefully someday I can compress into gas bottles
That’s a good idea using the air compressor like that. I never would’ve thought of that cause you want to compress it but they have one of those things for getting out air conditioning things don’t know if you can use it, but it does the same thing.
Great video. Just stumbled on your station after brief google search for biogas compression. I have installed several 10m3 biogas plants in Indonesia, and am wanting to diversify the application to more than just stoves. The next step for me is everything you have done. Scrubbing, cleaning, and compression. Seems I am getting stuck on the cleaning/scrubbing step, but your bleach/water tank and steel wool/clay pellets seem to do the trick eh? Where did you learn the bleach/water mixture idea from? Can you explain the flow there? Does the gas bubble up from the bottom? What is the bleach/water ratio? Do you change that out? How often? Awesome video, keep making them!
thanks a lot bro, your videos are really helpful, i heard that one could use a refrigerator compressor to compress gas. please can you show us a video. i live in Nigeria where that compressor you got costs a fortune.. thanks
Hey mate (sorry I don’t know your name), I love your videos and am currently in the process of building a mini biogas system, using a 20L bucket. This is just to prove to my wife that the system works and it’s worth me building multiple large ones 🤣🤣 (convincing the wife is a process). Do you feel it’s worth compressing the biogas into the cylinders?. I mean, have you had reasonable success doing so?. I was originally excited about compressing biogas, as I’m a plumber and understand how to put these sorts of things together, with little effort. However when i started reading up on methane and found you couldn’t compress it to liquid form without lowering the Temperature to -150 degrees C, it was a bit of a downer. Then i saw your video and thought “I wonder how much he’s actually getting in there?”. So are you compressing that entire air mattress into a 9kg bottle? How long does this take and how much time are you getting out of the compressed gas? You’re just connecting the air intake for the compressor, to the methane filled air mattress, yeah?. I am currently sitting on the thought that I will probably just collect truck tyre tubes and stack them one on top of the other, in some sort of cylinder enclosure. I thought i might use a large container on top of the tubes, which I can fill with water using a valve, to compress the tyre tubes and force out the gas. I can always muck around with the spring in the 2.75kpa LPG regular if needed and bore out the injectors also, using a purpose made hand held boring drill. You get these at gas wholesaler places like BOC, or you can order them online (incase you haven’t heard of these already mate). Anyway, would love to hear your thoughts mate. Love your channel, love what you are doing and am super excited about the advancement to the generator. I shared this video with a couple of mates and dream about the day that I can run the AC at home, on a biogas fuel generator (we need AC here in SE QLD mate). Cheers Chris
I never thought about using an air compressor to fill tanks . I can't believe you have no safe guard's in place unless that compressor is totally made of a non metallic alloy all its gonna take is one spark everything is sitting side by side in a closed space with you in it . Its gonna light up with an explosion then a flash fire. I'm going to pretty much use your setup except the compressor will sit behind a concrete wall 25 to 50ft away no ceiling so the energy would travel upwards then a poured concrete enclosure 25 to 50ft away probley 25ft would work. Wall thickness 4 to 6ins between 3 to 4ft high with couple pieces steel tubing or a mess mat you could easily lay over catching flying debris somewhere between the two a block wall where you can stand with the switch in an explosion proof electrical box. Couple fire extinguishers. Yes this sounds extreme Ive pulled a gasoline tanker for many year's until becoming msha certified to work in any strip mine in 49 states and I've always said just before it went all wrong it was going alright. Again thanks for sharing your setup
Um use a scuba diving compressor 4500 psi and a tank for nitrogen replace the valve with one that is used for combustable fuel. Place the tank in a hole fill with ice to lower temp to zero. Liquid methane. Now at 4500 psi in liquid state is stable and can hold weeks of fuel per tank.😊
Hey hill, this is what we have been looking for to manage our growing waste problem. Can you share the list of equipment and materials to setup the system. For starters we have the waste; we can easily access the compressor and gas tanks however the linkages and connectors are key as well as the gas tank that you can easily hang in a room. Looking forward to your guidance and insights. PS. You will save a village from drowning in its waste..
Hi Robert, just in case you don't get any other responses, look up the Solar Cities biodigester system. From what I understand, this system is based on those freely available designs.
sorry to be so offtopic but does anyone know a tool to get back into an Instagram account? I stupidly lost the login password. I appreciate any tips you can offer me
@Liam Jamison I really appreciate your reply. I got to the site on google and Im trying it out now. Looks like it's gonna take a while so I will get back to you later when my account password hopefully is recovered.
Could you recommend useful resources for making a bio-digester , scrubbers for CO2, H2S, what to consider when choosing containers etc? Links to books and videos would be much appreciated!
Love what you have done. Compressing biogas makes it really practical as well as fun :o). Just wondering what the gas fitting part numbers/names are so I can build my own setup?
When you compress any gas it makes the surrounding pipes and tubing heat up tremendously, People wanting to try this need to be careful that the piping coming out of their compressor does not over heat. Many air compressor tubes have aluminum heatsinks around them to help dissipate this heat. A flexible water hose with rubber inside is definitely not what people should use.
I have recently started watching your videos and I am impressed! you have such a nice setup. I have 2 questions regarding your system. I hope you answer. 1) How do you stop the gas leakage from the overflow pipes as I don't see any valve around the overflow pipe. 2) How many days would it take to refill this gas bag after it has been empty?
Hey mate, over flow pipe goes down into the liquid on the inside, stops the gas. As far as filling the bag, depends on temperature, how much feed, what you feed, and how often you feed, optimal conditions I can do the bag in 2 days
If you cool the Cylinder it would help suck the gas in itself. Gas will be worm and cylinder cool to about 10c would help . Transfer the gas . Its like the plastic lighters you get hard to fill when warm .But if you cool the lighter in the fridge for half hour .It will fill fast to the top. with the warm gas .
Hi . . . .really fantastic setup and easily understable content. . . .I've become a fan of your ideas. . . Rolled down the comments and couldn't find one one bit... Is there a net calculation of energy generated vs available for use. . . .sorry I cud'nt put my head around it. . . .just an easy to refer calculation right from amount of biofeed into the digester to compressor to electricity generator and the energy required to transfer/ transform at each stage... and wastage stages so they can be contained. . . .cheers viv
I wouldnt use a generic compressor like that at pressures above 160 psi anyway, you will get a LOT of blow by past its piston rings that do the compressing.
That's awesome! Have you ever looked at your digestate through an electron microscope? I've seen several people using this as fertilizer, one guy even distributing it over fields with a tractor. I'm leery about the potential impact on the the soil microbiology after watching Dr. Elaine Ingham lecture about the soil food web. It's kind of stuck in my craw that there is so little about that online such that I've not been able to find any compelling discussion about it. Generally speaking, I gather anaerobic nasties don't play well with aerobic garden critters.
@@user-yi8rk3do5z It's a Googlable expression. Something unresolved that has been bothering me for a long time in this use case. Kind of glad you brought me back to this video, I'm assembling my reactor today. Still concerned about the nasties but this is still an inspirational vid.
When we have our propane tank filled at our ranch the driver/operator always unscrews the relief valve on the side of the valve (little screw) when he is filling the bottle. Should we be doing the same thing when we compress biogas into the bottle? Thanks for posting your videos!! Love Them One and All!!
Maybe not propane is liquid under pressure that's what I look for when venting filling bottles the start of that liquid excaping, I'm not sure biogas is being compressed that much. Its more like filling dive tanks
What is the net energy balance of the whole process incl compression? Is the compression work exceeded by the heat content of the biogas? Evil question, I know. Awesome contributions. Cheers
Hello mate! I am deeply happy to find your channel and learn all these things from you about Biogas! It's amazing when you realize that energy is a free good.. I am a real keen of renewable energy sources and I was wondering lately how to have free heating for my house during Winter time. So when I found your channel was like an oasis! Haha. I really I appreciate you So my long project short is to produce Biogas during automn and summer and store it in tanks so that I can burn it later. A few questions though In this 45kg tank the maximum storage capacity of Biogas is 1000lt (in 1 atmospheric pressure)??? Can't we store inside more?? Or is it impossible with this specific compressor? My question is if we can fill the tank to its commercial capacity as when we buy it full from the store so that can be more of handy
Hi Nick, to get practical and commercial amounts in a gas bottle, you will need a dedicated compressor ( have a look at Nuvair CNG) and CNG tanks as they handle higher pressures. Also have a look at Liquid Compressed Natural Gas. Very interesting.
Very cool! I use ~750L of natural gas per day. How much time did it take for your system to generate the 1k L of biogas? What do you do with the biomaterial after it has finished producing biogas? How long does it take before the old used biomatter needs to be removed from the system? How do you get it out of the tanks & what do you do with it? Fascinating topic! Thanks for sharing!
Just a heads up. I definitely would be a little nervous with the old compressor around biogas. Maybe put a flash arrester between it and the gas bottle....
I think I heard him mention that because he used what was in it, that he knew there was no oxygen inside. I guess as long as the tank valve was closed when the previous gas content stopped having usable pressure there was no chance for oxygen to enter. I do wonder how biogas and residual propane get along though? Is this a non issue? I use a butane long reach lighter for igniting my propane cookstove. Unlit propane often somehow " blows out" the lighter flame. Not sure what is really happening when these two flammable gasses meet.
Good job and I would like to know more about the compressor ... for a small project, what compressor do you recommend? Your feedback is greatly appreciated. Cheers.
Wood gas at it's best is methane and hydrogen and at worst carbon monoxide. I used a sealed vessel with external heat and running the wood gas through a catalytic converter. The gas is similar to natural gas which is a low energy gas that does not liquefy. I have some in propane tanks that has been stored for at least 7 years. I crack the valve and burn some now and then, it is as god as it was when I made it.
wow just found you videos man and exactly what i was looking for for info about biogas etc, love you home made set up do you have a video on how ya made it?
really I highly appreciate your video I want to do that as a business case, so I need full info if you didn't mind. also if 1000L enough to fill 80 tanks of 12.5Kg and how much the pressure inside gas container to make me know 1000L reached. if you interest to contact with me please just reply
I like the setup. I am very interested in Biogas and local use. Can you confirm the numbers, as understand it, 1,000 litres is 1 M3 of biogas, which is 22MJ.LHV. A 45kg LPG bottle would normally hold 99 liquid liters and 2,200MJ. Am I missing something?
Sooo...1-M³ is 1000-liters and about 45,000-BTUs. Going to have to find a better way. I can make so much per day in the summer...but need to safely store FOR winter. 1000-liters is NOT going to cut it
You have my genuine thanks for taking the time and effort to educate us on bio-gas and compressing it to make a much more practical and useful application. Liked, subscribed and thumbs up! Again, THANK YOU VERY MUCH SIR!!!
XPRISE CARBON PARTICLE CAPTURE
The heat loss from a smokestack can be forced into a large tank containing hot liquid microcrystalline petroleum wax. The heat will keep the wax at a molten state which facilitate the carbon to be absorbed when combined with the wax. Carbon when mixed with wax reacts like a dye. The wax-carbon amalgamation result in a black wax solution thereby making it impossible for the carbon to escape into the environment. Other toxic particles are also captured in the wax settling at the bottom of the wax holding tank forming into a sludge. A sludge release valve is located at the bottom of the tank. After the sludge is removed more wax is replaced in the vessel working something like a toilet. The sludge becomes a byproduct that can be used as an additive to asphalt for roads or used for cocooning nuclear waste materials for long-term safe burial. The entropy of the Earth has been increasing at a startling rate since the beginning of the industrial revolution caused mainly by the carbon that is released into the atmosphere. Government scientists have failed to stop and prevent carbon pollution from entering the environment. This problem can only worsen until a solution is found before this problem becomes irreversible. It has been discovered that formulated wax has been shown to be the only answer to this problem. William Nelson waxogen@gmail.com
Hello my friend. I´ve been looking for some time about how to do this. The horrendous experience with the authoritarian regime in my country, #Venezuela, has made me to find alternative ways to provide fuel for my modest needs: cooking and fueling my vehicles, an SUV and a motorcycle. After reading some really useful documents I´ve found that moisture needs to be retrieved from the gas (fitting an inline silica gel filter, maybe from a car air conditioning) and a scrubber (an enclosed vessel filled up with steel wool) which will react with the sulfides and sulfates and will avoid the corrosion associated to sulphurs.
I´ve not yet built it because of my return was stopped by the Quarantine but I´m going to use your videos as a guide.
Thanks for sharing, dude!
P.S. PLease people remember this gas explodes. Use your common sense.
Thanks for the ideas
I've seen other videos where it's being said that it doesn't explode 🤷♀️
The idea for having an aquarium heater is great. Here is how you avoid cleaning it. Place it i a separate pvc pipe cylinder with antifreeze in it. Seal it off so it will not leak. place it in a uniseal at the lower part of the container. This will work and keep it effective for heating the effluent.
Why would you even bother though? What am I missing?
@@adamsaquatics3332 could be another video..i hv also seen it somewhre
Watched your 1st gen vid a few times, loved it, and now an update. I'm going to be putting together a similar system next year on an off-grid farm in Spain - you gave me the inspiration to compress the CH4 into a used propane tank. This will be used to top up a solar heated heat sink (multiple 1000 litre insulated IBCs full of water for an UFH system). Thanks for taking the time to inspire us, you're a legend.
Awesome mate, thanks for the kind words and glad I can help out some.
XPRISE CARBON PARTICLE CAPTURE
The heat loss from a smokestack can be forced into a large tank containing hot liquid microcrystalline petroleum wax. The heat will keep the wax at a molten state which facilitate the carbon to be absorbed when combined with the wax. Carbon when mixed with wax reacts like a dye. The wax-carbon amalgamation result in a black wax solution thereby making it impossible for the carbon to escape into the environment. Other toxic particles are also captured in the wax settling at the bottom of the wax holding tank forming into a sludge. A sludge release valve is located at the bottom of the tank. After the sludge is removed more wax is replaced in the vessel working something like a toilet. The sludge becomes a byproduct that can be used as an additive to asphalt for roads or used for cocooning nuclear waste materials for long-term safe burial. The entropy of the Earth has been increasing at a startling rate since the beginning of the industrial revolution caused mainly by the carbon that is released into the atmosphere. Government scientists have failed to stop and prevent carbon pollution from entering the environment. This problem can only worsen until a solution is found before this problem becomes irreversible. It has been discovered that formulated wax has been shown to be the only answer to this problem. William Nelson waxogen@gmail.com
How did it come?
Cheers from America, thanks for putting this content out. Been searching for info on utilizing biogas in an offgrid homestead we're getting ready to start next month.
I know that is an older video, but have you considered using a fridge/freezer compressor instead? Uses a fraction of the power to run, and reaches a higher pressure, like 400psi. through a pressure switch on it,, and you could automate it. Also runs much cooler, and the lubrication can be handled by a self built oil accumulator
He said in the video you can't go much higher with the pressure because in order to do that you would need liquid nitrogen to cool the gas into liquid. Not practical for at home unless you have a liquid nitrogen. If I understand correctly highly compressed hydrogen is dangerous if it's not in Liquid form
I was thinking that too. You would need a condenser with a fan to cool the compressed gas... like a refrigerator. It should work.
Thanks my bro.. Love from India... You shared a great knowledge that can cause fuel revolution in the world 👏👍💓
Love the OK at everything, pro at nothing. That is my disposition. I have a Home BioGas II digester and am so close to off grid American. Storing Biogas is my new problem so thanks very much for your demonstration!
I know this is a few years late BUT have you thought about using dry ice against a kind of heat exchanger before the gas goes into the cylinder? Ideally, the gas would cool to near 195K (Dry ice temp) and then when the temperature rose back up to ~20C the pressure in the tank would be about 240PSI (if the initial pressure was 160PSI). It could be a cheap (ish) way to test cooling the gas for higher compression with the existing compressor.
I'm impressed good info man just started watching your channel and you have a world of knowledge.
Cheers mate, always good to hear that I’m passing on knowledge, new vid hopefully up tomorrow 👍
Like wise, great work. Thank you.
Salute! Thank you so much. I've been searching for refilling techniques for quite some time now, finally. Wish you all the best
Bro hahahaha..."I'm just a dude in a shed with some plastic tubes"...thx,for the vid and the great side note reminder...I think its important to say,as the first step is always the scariest...so u encourage people...all the best,greetings from Germany...subbed :)
Absolutely brilliant mate! Thank you.👍
Knowledgeable and very detailed for those with engineering experience already👍. Good illustration 👍👍
Please make a more detailed video of how to diy the compression and storing process so that beginners can start right away ... And also to provide a guide on what items to buy and their specifications
Wow I love what you’re doing friend!
How long does the 45kg tank last? Did I detect a gas leak when you shut off your air compressor? How long did it take for the large bag to fill up?
Any thought on instant hot water with methane and space heaters? Keep the movement going brother. Sending love from Vancouver Island!
Dude you're awesome, doing great work...
Thanks for sharing this with us....
I really appreciate it...
Thanks for the kind words, means a lot, will hopefully have a new vid up tomorrow 👍
@@danieltaurins86
Great, looking forward to follow that as well...
What brand of compressure is that?
your work is inspiring bro. Lots of good ideas given.
Thanks, great information!
The scrubber and filter system is very interesting!
This is great stuff man thanks for the video link 👌 fair play this will save me a lot of messing around your a legend 🤙
Center Enamel Bolted steel tanks have a large variety of system applications, mainly including fire protection water storage tank, potable water tank, anaerobic digester, biogas tank, dry bulk storage tank, leachate tank, municipal sewage tank.
My question
1.what about previous lpg gas in cylinder
2 how much pressure required for filling & suggest compressor
3 how mush gas is stored in that cylinder
Very informative video
Looking awesome, Nice seeing your biogas videos and how to make and use it. My ibc tank has been giving me the runaround. Take a look at my biogas videos. Keep them coming the videos never get old.
Awesome !! mate thanks for great video just found out about biogas 1hr ago on USA video I'm using 20lt bucket for toilet and buying gas . This is gunna change my world . Thanks again for the great work I just subscribed and am looking forward to watching all your vids
Hey man, i have a house, it is not finished. Septic tank is made from two seperated concrete pipes, about 5 m3 (cubic) of space. Now with this idea im inspired and im thinking how to convert it for biogas production. Human waste and rest of the vegetables in the kitchen.
Brave man.
Testing the gas without a flashback arrester. 😲😲
Mate Pls look up flashback arrester before you get Hurt.
All the best take care and thanks for the videos.
Keep going! You're doing great. Enjoy your videos
The electrical consumption surely exceeded the energy in btu from the gas available. Best to just use the gas at low pressure in large bags or else it essentially makes a worthless process. The only way I am aware for this to make any sense is that it was a compressor fueled by the bio gas itself to compress the bio gas. Thats the reason wellhead gas is transported from the wellhead to the refinery by compressors that are run by the very gas they are transporting. Love the experimenting though! Always fun to watch!
Goof info, mate. I have tried a while ago with a 100L plastic tank and cow poo, it worked once, did fire in the stove, but then my plastic thingy broke. I had issues with gas leakage at the connections aswell. Now I am gathering more information and planning to build with a IBC 1000L tank, and hopefully someday I can compress into gas bottles
That’s a good idea using the air compressor like that. I never would’ve thought of that cause you want to compress it but they have one of those things for getting out air conditioning things don’t know if you can use it, but it does the same thing.
Great video. Just stumbled on your station after brief google search for biogas compression. I have installed several 10m3 biogas plants in Indonesia, and am wanting to diversify the application to more than just stoves. The next step for me is everything you have done. Scrubbing, cleaning, and compression. Seems I am getting stuck on the cleaning/scrubbing step, but your bleach/water tank and steel wool/clay pellets seem to do the trick eh? Where did you learn the bleach/water mixture idea from? Can you explain the flow there? Does the gas bubble up from the bottom? What is the bleach/water ratio? Do you change that out? How often? Awesome video, keep making them!
Hulo Aaron, i also would like to install bio gas plants in Uganda. Do you mind mentoring me? hilidaikiriza2@gmail.com.
These are the innovations that can help bring down the world's high cost of living. I am more than impressed. Keep the innovations coming!
I was just thinking of using a compressor from a refrigerator. After all that noise, i will.
Helpful stuff, congrats and jambo from Tanzania
thanks a lot bro, your videos are really helpful, i heard that one could use a refrigerator compressor to compress gas. please can you show us a video. i live in Nigeria where that compressor you got costs a fortune.. thanks
Hey mate (sorry I don’t know your name), I love your videos and am currently in the process of building a mini biogas system, using a 20L bucket. This is just to prove to my wife that the system works and it’s worth me building multiple large ones 🤣🤣 (convincing the wife is a process).
Do you feel it’s worth compressing the biogas into the cylinders?. I mean, have you had reasonable success doing so?. I was originally excited about compressing biogas, as I’m a plumber and understand how to put these sorts of things together, with little effort. However when i started reading up on methane and found you couldn’t compress it to liquid form without lowering the Temperature to -150 degrees C, it was a bit of a downer. Then i saw your video and thought “I wonder how much he’s actually getting in there?”. So are you compressing that entire air mattress into a 9kg bottle?
How long does this take and how much time are you getting out of the compressed gas?
You’re just connecting the air intake for the compressor, to the methane filled air mattress, yeah?.
I am currently sitting on the thought that I will probably just collect truck tyre tubes and stack them one on top of the other, in some sort of cylinder enclosure. I thought i might use a large container on top of the tubes, which I can fill with water using a valve, to compress the tyre tubes and force out the gas. I can always muck around with the spring in the 2.75kpa LPG regular if needed and bore out the injectors also, using a purpose made hand held boring drill. You get these at gas wholesaler places like BOC, or you can order them online (incase you haven’t heard of these already mate).
Anyway, would love to hear your thoughts mate. Love your channel, love what you are doing and am super excited about the advancement to the generator. I shared this video with a couple of mates and dream about the day that I can run the AC at home, on a biogas fuel generator (we need AC here in SE QLD mate).
Cheers
Chris
I never thought about using an air compressor to fill tanks . I can't believe you have no safe guard's in place unless that compressor is totally made of a non metallic alloy all its gonna take is one spark everything is sitting side by side in a closed space with you in it . Its gonna light up with an explosion then a flash fire. I'm going to pretty much use your setup except the compressor will sit behind a concrete wall 25 to 50ft away no ceiling so the energy would travel upwards then a poured concrete enclosure 25 to 50ft away probley 25ft would work. Wall thickness 4 to 6ins between 3 to 4ft high with couple pieces steel tubing or a mess mat you could easily lay over catching flying debris somewhere between the two a block wall where you can stand with the switch in an explosion proof electrical box. Couple fire extinguishers. Yes this sounds extreme Ive pulled a gasoline tanker for many year's until becoming msha certified to work in any strip mine in 49 states and I've always said just before it went all wrong it was going alright. Again thanks for sharing your setup
Would love to see a decommissioned kids jumping castle filled with biogas 😂
kids jumping castle = bouncy castle
Thank me later
And then lit up at night?
Lol those always leak like a sieve!
Send an adult in there with a lit cigarette and now it's a rocket ship.
That's brilliant, I would love to build a digester and make our own gas. Gas prices just keep increasing here and it's taking the mic.
Um use a scuba diving compressor 4500 psi and a tank for nitrogen replace the valve with one that is used for combustable fuel. Place the tank in a hole fill with ice to lower temp to zero. Liquid methane. Now at 4500 psi in liquid state is stable and can hold weeks of fuel per tank.😊
Hey hill, this is what we have been looking for to manage our growing waste problem. Can you share the list of equipment and materials to setup the system. For starters we have the waste; we can easily access the compressor and gas tanks however the linkages and connectors are key as well as the gas tank that you can easily hang in a room. Looking forward to your guidance and insights. PS. You will save a village from drowning in its waste..
Hi Robert, just in case you don't get any other responses, look up the Solar Cities biodigester system. From what I understand, this system is based on those freely available designs.
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great vid mate will be trying to make one myself , i make a lot of my own gear out of scrap and stiff i have laying around you doing a great job
Would be so nice to see a steam engine running from bio gas as the engine for the compressor.
Could you recommend useful resources for making a bio-digester , scrubbers for CO2, H2S, what to consider when choosing containers etc? Links to books and videos would be much appreciated!
Hi Geo, everything I learnt came from google searches or you tubers, I do plan to do a vid on scrubbers in the future.
Thanks for sharing your knowledge brilliant easy to follow :-)
Love what you have done. Compressing biogas makes it really practical as well as fun :o). Just wondering what the gas fitting part numbers/names are so I can build my own setup?
A dude in a shed, that is helping to change the World to be better. Nice :)
Wish there was an accessible way for us to compress biogas to 200 bar at home, to enable fuel making for vehicles.
nice thank you bro I'll try to do this project well done
When you compress any gas it makes the surrounding pipes and tubing heat up tremendously, People wanting to try this need to be careful that the piping coming out of their compressor does not over heat. Many air compressor tubes have aluminum heatsinks around them to help dissipate this heat. A flexible water hose with rubber inside is definitely not what people should use.
🇦🇺👍🏻good stuff I was looking for more information on scrubbing the gas, especially CO2 removal.
I have recently started watching your videos and I am impressed! you have such a nice setup.
I have 2 questions regarding your system. I hope you answer.
1) How do you stop the gas leakage from the overflow pipes as I don't see any valve around the overflow pipe.
2) How many days would it take to refill this gas bag after it has been empty?
Hey mate, over flow pipe goes down into the liquid on the inside, stops the gas. As far as filling the bag, depends on temperature, how much feed, what you feed, and how often you feed, optimal conditions I can do the bag in 2 days
Okay Got it!
Thankyou for the reply :)
If you cool the Cylinder it would help suck the gas in itself. Gas will be worm and cylinder cool to about 10c would help . Transfer the gas . Its like the plastic lighters you get hard to fill when warm .But if you cool the lighter in the fridge for half hour .It will fill fast to the top. with the warm gas .
Hi . . . .really fantastic setup and easily understable content. . . .I've become a fan of your ideas. . . Rolled down the comments and couldn't find one one bit... Is there a net calculation of energy generated vs available for use. . . .sorry I cud'nt put my head around it. . . .just an easy to refer calculation right from amount of biofeed into the digester to compressor to electricity generator and the energy required to transfer/ transform at each stage... and wastage stages so they can be contained. . . .cheers viv
I wouldnt use a generic compressor like that at pressures above 160 psi anyway, you will get a LOT of blow by past its piston rings that do the compressing.
That's awesome! Have you ever looked at your digestate through an electron microscope? I've seen several people using this as fertilizer, one guy even distributing it over fields with a tractor. I'm leery about the potential impact on the the soil microbiology after watching Dr. Elaine Ingham lecture about the soil food web. It's kind of stuck in my craw that there is so little about that online such that I've not been able to find any compelling discussion about it. Generally speaking, I gather anaerobic nasties don't play well with aerobic garden critters.
What's a craw?
@@user-yi8rk3do5z It's a Googlable expression. Something unresolved that has been bothering me for a long time in this use case. Kind of glad you brought me back to this video, I'm assembling my reactor today. Still concerned about the nasties but this is still an inspirational vid.
When we have our propane tank filled at our ranch the driver/operator always unscrews the relief valve on the side of the valve (little screw) when he is filling the bottle. Should we be doing the same thing when we compress biogas into the bottle? Thanks for posting your videos!! Love Them One and All!!
I would think so
Maybe not propane is liquid under pressure that's what I look for when venting filling bottles the start of that liquid excaping, I'm not sure biogas is being compressed that much. Its more like filling dive tanks
How long does the 45kg tank usually last you? :)
I'm using 9 kg as a bachelor and I cook once or twice a day and it last me 3 to 4 months
@@cubebkzee3419 9kg tank how much pressure is it compressed to?
Can you do a do's and don'ts video for biogas. Have you had any accidents or near misses?
My cow also has a ring through the nose. Works very well
Excellent work!
Crazy awesome work brother, I have become a fan
Thanks for sharing I'll interest and will try 🙏
looking forward for the next video. Do you have a simple diagram showing your flow process from start to end? Thank you very much.
Can you explain in detail how to hookup compressor to the bottle: fittings, gauges, type of compressor, pressure to watch, etc...
What is the net energy balance of the whole process incl compression? Is the compression work exceeded by the heat content of the biogas? Evil question, I know. Awesome contributions. Cheers
Hello mate!
I am deeply happy to find your channel and learn all these things from you about Biogas! It's amazing when you realize that energy is a free good..
I am a real keen of renewable energy sources and I was wondering lately how to have free heating for my house during Winter time. So when I found your channel was like an oasis! Haha. I really I appreciate you
So my long project short is to produce Biogas during automn and summer and store it in tanks so that I can burn it later.
A few questions though
In this 45kg tank the maximum storage capacity of Biogas is 1000lt (in 1 atmospheric pressure)??? Can't we store inside more?? Or is it impossible with this specific compressor?
My question is if we can fill the tank to its commercial capacity as when we buy it full from the store so that can be more of handy
Hi Nick, to get practical and commercial amounts in a gas bottle, you will need a dedicated compressor ( have a look at Nuvair CNG) and CNG tanks as they handle higher pressures. Also have a look at Liquid Compressed Natural Gas. Very interesting.
The part with the aluminium foil wasn't bad, but I think the methane producing bacteria might die of overheating.
The aquarium heater will be the perfect temperature for them.
Very cool! I use ~750L of natural gas per day.
How much time did it take for your system to generate the 1k L of biogas?
What do you do with the biomaterial after it has finished producing biogas?
How long does it take before the old used biomatter needs to be removed from the system?
How do you get it out of the tanks & what do you do with it?
Fascinating topic! Thanks for sharing!
@ab_ab_c How do you use your biogas? Would these 750L be for everyday use for cooking only?
I would like to have more references on biogas yield.
Nice informative video! How much was the weight of the gas in the gas bottle after you had finished compressing?
Very nice bro, how long have you been use the 45L compressed biogas. day or cooking hrs? Thanks!
I really liked this video, thank you sir.
Just a heads up. I definitely would be a little nervous with the old compressor around biogas. Maybe put a flash arrester between it and the gas bottle....
thank you for the video. Would you please show in detail how you empty the oxygen out of the tank. thank you
I think I heard him mention that because he used what was in it, that he knew there was no oxygen inside. I guess as long as the tank valve was closed when the previous gas content stopped having usable pressure there was no chance for oxygen to enter. I do wonder how biogas and residual propane get along though? Is this a non issue? I use a butane long reach lighter for igniting my propane cookstove. Unlit propane often somehow " blows out" the lighter flame.
Not sure what is really happening when these two flammable gasses meet.
Thanks for posting. Keep it up.
Good job and I would like to know more about the compressor ... for a small project, what compressor do you recommend? Your feedback is greatly appreciated. Cheers.
i dun notice of any step of bleeding out the oxygen, which is extremely dangerous to mux in with methane under high pressure
Great video and motivation thanks mate!!
Very good video nice one thank you brother 👍 👍 👍 👍 👍 👍 👍
Could you please explain why the biogas do not ignite (like gasoline) in the piston chamber of the compressor?
I’d love to hear the answer to this question because this looks like an explosion waiting to happen.
Wood gas at it's best is methane and hydrogen and at worst carbon monoxide. I used a sealed vessel with external heat and running the wood gas through a catalytic converter. The gas is similar to natural gas which is a low energy gas that does not liquefy. I have some in propane tanks that has been stored for at least 7 years. I crack the valve and burn some now and then, it is as god as it was when I made it.
I want to do like this. Can i directly fill cilinder.
You are a good man
Nice sir. Complete the process.
You can also use a working fridge compressor
you could water cool the air pump that might help.
wow just found you videos man and exactly what i was looking for for info about biogas etc, love you home made set up do you have a video on how ya made it?
Could you please educate me more.
I am really interested in the production and compression processes.
All good self - reliance stuff. Great !
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Great video info. Thanks mate
really I highly appreciate your video I want to do that as a business case, so I need full info if you didn't mind. also if 1000L enough to fill 80 tanks of 12.5Kg and how much the pressure inside gas container to make me know 1000L reached.
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Wow. Good explanation. Will you please let me know, how to take out water moisture and sulpher contents while compression
I like the setup. I am very interested in Biogas and local use. Can you confirm the numbers, as understand it, 1,000 litres is 1 M3 of biogas, which is 22MJ.LHV. A 45kg LPG bottle would normally hold 99 liquid liters and 2,200MJ. Am I missing something?
I guess I’d have to compress it into liquid form to ever have a chance to get enough volume to run a vehicle
Sooo...1-M³ is 1000-liters and about 45,000-BTUs.
Going to have to find a better way.
I can make so much per day in the summer...but need to safely store FOR winter.
1000-liters is NOT going to cut it
Cool Video ! Thanks for sharing.
If you could answer I have a question for you.
How did you know what your max pressure was before cooling was needed?
Sounds like you need a compressor upgrade 👋👋👋👋👋
I just wanna have my gasifyer at home ( my gas station refinery.) have collection bags and charge my tanks at night for the next day
More videos like this please
What kind of cylinder did you use? I’m interested in the entire setup. Anything that you could share would be appreciated. Great job