How To Heat Water From Compost
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- Опубліковано 7 вер 2024
- How to heat water from your compost. Let me show show you how you could get free hot water from your compost bin. All the components including the compost bin are available to buy quite cheaply online or from your local garden center / hardware store and you don't need much space in your yard or garden for this project either. If you like this video, check out my :'How To Heat A Greenhouse With Compost' video here: • How To Heat A Greenhou...
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My brother's offered friend did a bigger compost but got hot water to his house for 2 years...keep going- you are on the right track! (he used wood chips)
Thanks
Question please, how big was the compost pile that lasted that long?
@@semi5alpha I don't know...sorry- when I was thinking of doing something similar my brother told me about his friend's experience- which was obviously positive
Amazing Tom, proof of concept confirmed, don't give up!
More ideas:
-A single scaled up compost bin made from pir insulation walls.
-moisture meter.
-aerated static pile composting.
Both of the latter points are very important as dry/anaerobic conditions will rapidly stop all activity.
Thanks a lot and thanks for your detailed feedback too.
A noble effort Tom, but a more practical setup could be easily achieved using larger compost bins (pallets are great and usually free, giving you at least a cubic metre of compost). Adding manure of some sort would also help, temperatures with manure tend to be higher. Again, this should be free from local stables or farms or, if you are adventurous enough, even humanure works fine. Finally, adding wood chips I am told tends to keep the temperature higher longer though I have to admit that I have not tried it myself. Good luck with your further experiments!
Thanks George, and thanks for your feedback.
Wouldn't wood decompose if used for compost bin?
Higher yield from food which is high in sugar.
Look up jean pain compost heating
Great idea!
thanks
Cheers Tom I'm gonna use this to heat my aquaponics fish tank over winter
You’re welcome. Good luck with it.
You can construct a small raised platform header tank with a ball cock water supply, from a large plastic water butt.
The ball cock can be fed cold water directly off your water supply by a garden hose, you can link in your raised header tank to another insulated raised plastic water butt storage container, at a low point water feed in flow point.
The water butt container can then be linked up to your compost heat exchanger with a lower flow direct feed, and a high flow direct return.. (Convection heat flow.)
With a high point hot water external flow pipe to your tap point?
Very good idea! I will look into this. Thanks for your feedback.
I am making one for myself and will be using either a single room CH radiator panel, or a 15mm
coil of PEX pipe?
All 15mm plumbing fixtures and fittings for the header tank, storage tank, flow and return pipes are all both standard, and the cheapest to buy..
Good luck with your project.
@@tomsgarden Just to let you know Tom, that I have completed my compost water heating system.
I will be producing a full video of both the complete build, and the water heating results at the end of October?
The compost pile has been activated over the past two day's, and will take a month for it to both ferment and produce heat?
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Excited to do some experiments myself!
After a year, did you have any corrosion issues with the copper? I know the chemistry in compost is very reactive. Remembered hearing pex was the best option because stainless is so expensive.
Hi, great work! Have you been able to work on a recirculation system?
Thanks, Yes I’m working on a compost heat exchange system now to heat my mini greenhouse. I’m hoping to complete and upload the video in a few weeks from now.
The problem is turning it without bending or breaking your copper pipe. They also sell solar-powered water pumps that would be a good idea to circulate the water I'm thinking about doing something like this and my greenhouse to heat it
Great try!!
Thanks
What's crazy is compost gives you heat and gas. You can heat your home twice with it and run your farm
Yes indeed!
Have you considered using a thermosiphon arrangement?
Yeah i tought the same ! So you could even manage to regulate how much heat escape, to not weaken too much the heating process...
I’ll look into this. Thanks for your suggestion.
Hi. How long did the compost produce heat?
I what about a metal tank inside the been .
Yes I thought about that, if placed above the compost. Thanks for your feedback.
Have you looked into doing this but with a sand battery?
This is Already kind of a (reloadable) bacterial battery ;)
@Kieren Carter Not yet. Interesting idea though. Thanks for your suggestion.
@AutoNomades Yes I guess it is
@@tomsgarden having a sand battery to the side and the water which comes from the compost moves through the sand battery to store the heat. Sand batteries are pretty awesome and if U wanted to conserve the energy obtained from the compost this could be a way to do it
Was it missing nitrogen in the compost? #urine dogs are your best friend
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