Hello all I'm working with a community group that has some funding to explore options for a very small-scale, low-tech biogas plant. They would like to see whether it is possible and how expensive it is to digest about a tonne a week of foodscraps and garden waste, with the biogas being used for supplemental greenhouse heating. I know there are lots of examples of this kind of scale digestion with manure in developing countries, I have helped out with one in El Salvador, but I don't know whether it's possible to do it here in Canada, especially with a feedstock that would have to be chopped up and slurried. I'm wondering whether anyone knows of any examples in North America or Europe or has any ideas to help me (my first reaction is that regulatory issues and economics would make it very expensive / close to impossible here, but I can't necessarily prove that it wouldn't work). Thanks for any thoughts at all. Marty Marty Climenhaga, M.S. (Eng) MacViro Consultants Inc. 600-90 Allstate Parkway Markham ON L3R 6H3 tel: 905-475-7270 ext. 289 fax: 905-475-5994 Digestion List Archives: http://www.crest.org/discussion/digestion/200202/ Digestion List Moderator: Paul Harris, paul.harris@adelaide.edu.au http://www.roseworthy.adelaide.edu.au/~pharris List-Post: <mailto:digestion@crest.org> List-Help: <mailto:digestion-help@crest.org> List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:digestion-unsubscribe@crest.org> List-Subscribe: <mailto:digestion-subscribe@crest.org> Other Digestion Events and Information: http://www.bioenergy2002.org http://crest.org/discussiongroups/resources/biomass/biogas/BIOGASMK.pdf http://www.crest.org/articles/static/1/1010424940_7.html Beginners Tour of Biogas http://WWW.roseworthy.adelaide.edu.au/~pharris/biogas/beginners
