Generating Electricity from biogas made from household kitchen garbage

[bhanwar04]

3 dislikes!!

People disliking everything reconfirm my belief in devil.

[newtechnology2]

If I may add what I know, one way to get oil into the engine is to allow oil to fill bowl where gas once did and remove the valve or adjust it somehow. This i think will allow oil to be sucked in to the engine by the engines vacumm. Good luck and PM me to let me know how it works and for more info. Thank you!

[1388dela]

Ei, very impressive. what did you place on the drill to make it work..... very nice..... 

animo

[cherpinsong]

hey there.. i'm glad to watch your video on youtube as i'm working the same project now as well.. however i have few questions need to be clarify from you.. how much of biogas is needed to generate the 2 stroke electric generator? where can i get that generator?? is it available in market or you custom made it?? thanks in advance and great job! i would appreciate if i get to contact with through e-mail or something so that you can be my advisor.. thank you

[hillbilliejoe]

why is it I cant watch retarded videos for hours on end and the play fine but everytime I find something like this it just dont wanna play or load?

[tia967]

BUT HOW DO YOU MAKE BIOGAS?

[AlternativePowerMan]

How about this? Use a 4-stroke engine, that solves the lube problem. Use a 12VDC generator so that power can be stored in a battery. This solves issues with generator output matching power load. Use an inverter to convert 12vdc to 110vac. Use a 12vdc (or 110vac) compressor (a small one of course) to pump the gas into a small 'pressure tank' to feed the regulator. The question is, can you make enough useable power?

[cdltpx]

A use a four stroke B compress your gas use a regulator C run your generator to recharge batteries that way you will be using a constant load for a true purpose days when the solar panel doesnt produce enough or when you drain your battery in the night. Your gas produces H2S this is highly corrosive and will errode your engine unless you clean the H2S out using some process to scrub your gas. Good thing is the H2S has uses you can make Acid that is good for batteries. Sulphur good for farming.

[sbflash311]

Can you use doggie or kittie doodoo for this in addition to the kitchen waste?

[Cstrife234]

One last note, hydrogen cells should prove very useful as well. In Japan they made a car that can go 250 miles at 50 miles per hour (80km/h) on one litre of water. That's about one quart (quarter gallon) So figure 9 gallon tank in a normal car...thats about 38 litres x 250 = 9562 miles per 9 gallon tank. It's just water! They take the electron flow from splitting hydrogen from oxygen (if I'm not mistaken) to power the motor.

[Cstrife234]

Also, not just electicity, but you can use the biogas directly for heating and cooking. Commercial natural gas is mostly methane. It burns just as well and as clean as propane. Not as many BTUs as propane, but it's free and renewable. This coupled with any electricity made by it, solar, wind...there'd never ever be a need to use gasoline again. A man was on tv and said he could fill up his car in about 8 hours and go many many miles, on less than $7.

[Cstrife234]

Is it compressed methane, or is it just straight methane?

[julyaki]

that idea is so great.... it will help us to recycle the garbage from waste to useful one..

if only the government in philippines try to spend money for a big project like this.. no more higher electric bills.. this is so easy even elementary can make that.. if you have some diagram pls send to

[huuot]

Sound like a two stroke.If it is won t run a longue time.You gonna burn it(no oil).You will need 4 stroke.Any gas will work even camping coolman stove.

[CTOL1]

I think the "perfect" engine, would be the open design one could find 100 years ago. Usually these were very long in stroke and would rotate a very massive flywheel. They had oil cup bearings and manual oiled valves.

Good stuff here though.

Four stroke engines would work best, you will destroy a 2 stroke unless a purpose built natural gas engine could be found. (I doubt there is such a beast)

Oil must lube the rod and crank bearings not just the cylinder and piston. All this is done in a 4stroke

[dadigitechman]

Just injecting two stroke oil over time is going to gum up the motor and cause spark plug issues the oil needs to be thined out If i had to try this with a two stroke I would try diesle as a lube but even with that the engine requires a certain amount of lube flow to insure it;s longevity to the point where you might as well run it on diesle alone Maybe But for the sake of it try a needle valve to drip lube in front of the carb. use clear tube to count drips per minute and experiment

[masterix6]

THANKS A MILLION for showing the way. This is true leadership. You are now a reference source.

[tculhane]

You're a million times welcome. I couldn't do it isolated here in Essen and in the inner city areas of Cairo if not for people like you giving encouragement and ideas. I am an individualist who is against "collectivism", thinking everybody should be able to produce as much of what their family needs in terms of the basics (including energy) as they like, who also believes in collective intelligence as an emergent property (not a pre-condition) that creates social benefits for all.

[tculhane]

So I love the spontaneity of youtube and blogs -- nobody is obligated to watch or read, there is no captive audience, no profit, no coercion, just people sharing the ideas that are meaningful to them and creating solutions to common problems therebye. As opposed to "the Tragedy of the Commons" I think this is the joy of the commons.

[tculhane]

Today I learned from a comment from a dirt-bike enthusiast on the web how to "autolube" a two stroke engine, so we are closer to a solution than ever. It is exciting. Thanks for the encouragement. I'll keep working at it!

[SCENARIOBABY]

keep em coming!

[bakotz]

nice video thank u 4 posting. iv got a useful idea on how to run a generator using biogas. thank u.God bless.

[tculhane]

Thanks. As I improve the system I'll post updates. Hope you and others will try various things too and share. I'm constantly amazed at how easy all of this actually is.

[headybrew]

I wonder if you could use biogas to power a gas refrigerator? We had a full size gas frige years ago when we lived in a cabin without electricity. it ran on LP gas. They are commonly used today in recreational vehicles. I don't know how much gas they use daily, but I think it would need a constant slow supply.

[tculhane]

I imagine the answer is yes headybrew! We had a fridge in Borneo in the 80s (ammonia/water refrigerant) that ran on a kerosene wick. When we ran out of kero we simply used a candle. The biogas flame would be no different. We use it with a cookstove all the time. Our 200 liter system on our porch gives 30 minutes of cooking/day but the flame is much stronger than needed for fridge; the 1000 liter system in Cairo gives us 2 hours. Don't know how much of that the fridge would consume.