Turning Farm Waste Into Biogas

Nothing goes to waste at the Dickinson College Farm. Interns, along with the farm's staff, constructed a small biogas plant to transform manure, duckweed and food scraps into clean biogas for cooking.
dickinson.edu/farm

[@davidoutdoors74]

Biogas is the way to go. I built 3 home digesters which produce enough biogas to run a small generator.

[@Josemislredo]

Great.... Would you mind advising me on how to set a productive biogas system? I want to help my village folks at the rural parts of Kenya to move from firewood use to biogas...
I will appreciate your assistance.

[@dsoncollege]

Hello! You can email your question to [e-mail] which will go directly to The Dickinson College Farm.

[@itanc1]

Wow, I love your films! Having watched them a couple of times I have built an upright insulated and heated digester that is working nicely so thanks for your tips. I have a question regarding temperature. As I have such an efficient system of heating and insulation I can easily run it at 55-60C. Would you recommend this and is it straightforward to then (if I want to) go back to the 38 C that I am currently operating at?
Secondly (if you don’t mind) I want to design a sausage digester that can be buried in a standard uk suburban garden (eg 5m*20m). I would like to use the top and bottom of a 55gallon drum for the ends and I was wondering if you could suggest a length? I intend to heat it with the thermal mass f a rocket mass heater and insulate it with straw and maybe a poly tunnel above it at ground level which will in turn be heated by the radiant side of the rmh. Love to know your thoughts if you get a chance and thanks again. Cheers. Tanc

[@dineshsharma2020]

Totally