subject: Biogas Generation at Home - Make your own Cooking Gas [print this page] Biogas Generation at Home - Make your own Cooking Gas
How do you treat the food waste? Most people would just throw them away. But some people would collect them and turn them into biogas which would be used for cooking. By doing this, you are getting free gas for cooking. And this biogas generation both reduces your gas bill and helps protecting the environment as biogas causes no pollution during burning.
The main ingredients of biogas are methane and carbon dioxide. The bio-gas is obtained from plant, animal waste, also called as biomass. The main source of biogas is wet cow dung, which is most commonly used for production of biogas. The other sources of biogas are: sewage, crop residue, vegetable wastes, waste wood, dry leaves of the plants, broken branches of trees, garbage, waste paper, poultry droppings, pig manures, algae, ocean kelp etc. Since it is difficult to deal with animal waste and its smell is unpleasant. It is recommended to use food waste for biogas generation at home. Food waste is easier to decompose and handle. Plant waste is also a good choice if you have any.
To make biogas at home, you will need a biogas plant or a biogas generator. This would costs you from a few hundreds to a few thousands to buy one. You can also build one by yourself. If you have no knowledge it doesn't matter. I also had no knowledge about it at all. After reading a diy guide, I can build a biogas generator at home easily. This guide has more than 140 pages step-by-step instruction with graphics. By following all the instructions I built a biogas generator with just about $200. I highly recommend it to you.
