In an effort to construct the syngas - methanation route, I formed a thesis that manure, being as perfect as a methane microbe reactor can that nature can build , can be reanimated and managed to produce more biogas once the naturally occurring reactants are exhausted.
I put four bottles of manure in a thermophile water bath. One bottle was kept as a control and the had CO2 water, white vinegar and a mixture thereof. These configurations produced different results. The acetate sterilized the methanogens, the CO2 water addition produced feeble biogas and the mixture also produced less than the control bottle. The bottles were left for three weeks to ferment. After that, they were left at room temperature for a week and then reheated in the water bath. The mixture bottle produced vigorously, perhaps at several times the usual production rate. I can't if the gas is CO2, biogas or CH4 but if its biogas, the finding is significant. P. _______________________________________________ Gasification mailing list to Send a Message to the list, use the email address [email protected] to UNSUBSCRIBE or Change your List Settings use the web page http://lists.bioenergylists.org/mailman/listinfo/gasification_lists.bioenergylists.org for more Gasifiers, News and Information see our web site: http://gasifiers.bioenergylists.org/
