Biogas at Broward Dining Hall- Undergraduate Honors Thesis 2008

This project examines the potential of producing biogas from the food waste at Broward Dining Hall on the University of Florida.

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• Biogas
• Food
• waste
• Bioenergy
• Anaerobic
• digestion
• sustainability
• reducing
• landfills
• dining
• hall
• cafeteria
• food
• scraps
• organic
• fertilizer
• nutrients
• green
• technology

[IamGreed]

wow! good job. thanks for posting.

What was your overall biogas production at the end of your experiment?

Did you use any starter microbes in the system or just let it do it thing?

[BioEnergySustTechUF]

Hi,

Thanks for the comments. My overall biogas production was about 100L of biogas per 0.5 kg of food waste at about 70% methane.

Digesters typically are inoculated at start up. We generally use dairy manure as an inoculum.

[tanadar2]

hey Graunke2008 i google u and i get ur paper in PDF ,i like it tnx for posting it.

[BioEnergySustTechUF]

Great, let me know if you have any questions about my video or the paper. How is your digester coming along?

[HomeDistiller]

I'm very interested in your results.. i have just completed a 44 gallon digester for my home and was wondering about your findings about the output etc..

did you wright a paper on this? if so would you email me a copy?

[BioEnergySustTechUF]

Sorry for the late reply. We did publish a paper from this study. What is your email and I can send it to you.

[ayansaim77]

hi sir we have just 1month internet i saw ur video i want o built this type of system can u send me ur system diagram how much intialy fill the tank and all caculation plz send my mail is tajamul77@yahoo.com i ho[pe u will send me

[nophoenixnobull]

Hi, I would like to try tannery effluents for biogas is it possible- Thank you for this tube. Please let me know if it is possible - did someone try it

[henry01cora]

Hi, I'm from the Philippines and also trying to make use of my pigs manure. Is it possible to produce Biogas from them. kindly send your drawings to my e-mail address. henry_cora@yahoo.com. I appreciate very much as this will be the first Biogas digester in our place. Thank you very much for your help. God Bless You. Please e-mail me your thesis on this.

[henry01cora]

Hi, I'm from the Philippines and also trying to make use of my pigs manure. Is it possible to produce Biogas from them. kindly send your drawings to my e-mail address. henry_cora@yahoo.com. I appreciate very much as this will be the first Biogas digester in our place. Thank you very much for your help. God Bless You.

[78ruppy]

good job. i also want to make something like that can you help me by sending me some domentions please and thank you.

[sarayukamat]

Hi. Very interesting project. Have a couple of questions:

1. When you started the project, did you remove oxygen from the digester

2. How much time does it take to generate the biogas for the first time?

3. Did you find any way to increase the production of biogas?

Appreciate your response. Any way we can get the paper you wrote?

Thanks

Sarayu

[Pitinginatay]

@BioEnergySustTechUF me too I would like ot ask for the study if you would like to share

[junbatayde]

hi sir.. could you send me a copy of your paper.. I would like to have a proper measurement if things to fix.. do you have study about no.of hours to use the banked methane?

thanks