DIG-L: RE: exploding digesters?

["Philip D. Lusk" <plusk@pipeline.com>]

Dear John and Group,

Delving back into the logs of failed farm digesters in the US, I have not
found any references to "exploding digesters."  I would council that any
individual having a direct reference to such a system have it carefully
documented and not spread rumors or hearsay about such.  Goodness knows, the
digester industry has enough negatives to overcome w/o added more issues to
overcome to the pile...

However, if anyone does have documentation concerning "exploding digesters,"
it should certainly be brought to our attention!
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Philip D. Lusk
Resource Development Associates
240 Ninth Street, NE
Washington, DC  20002-6110
tel:    202.546.6283
fax:   202.546.3518
web:  www.biogasworks.com

-----Original Message-----
From: WHITE John [mailto:John.White@state.or.us]
Sent: Wednesday, February 23, 2000 4:44 PM
To: plusk@pipeline.com
Subject: exploding digesters?

Hi Phil,
You may have noticed some recent posts to the Digester list saying that
accidents and explosions were a cause of disenchantment with early farm
digesters built in the 70s.  I don't recall reading anything about that in
your Casebook.  Do you have any information about the risk of digesters
exploding?  I thought this was a non-issue due to the dilute nature of the
methane until reading these recent posts.

Regards,


John G. White
Oregon Office of Energy
625 Marion St., NE, Suite 1
Salem, Oregon 97301-3742
john.white@state.or.us












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