Power from animal manure

[hollandindia2008]

Hello,

If anyone likes to know how he can convert animal or other organic waste into power, please contact me. We are expert in biogas power plants in the range 50 kW to 2 MW using the latest EU (mainly German) technology. In our view most components can be locally supplied if possible so that costs can be reduced as much as possible.

We work together with a powerful respected Indian company which recently resulted in the setup of an Indian Pvt Ltd. Nowadays we have a plant of 1,5 MW under construction using 350 mT buffalo and 40 mT poultry manure. This plant will run in March next year.

Our intention is to introduce the EU technology of biogas power installations into the Indian industry in a competitive way in order to make high demanded power electricity, avoid environmental pollution (methane, ammonia, phosphate leaching) and make especially the production chain of human food (milk or other food products) more sustainable by using their byproducts.

If anyone likes to know seriously more about our company or our expertise, please dont hesitate to contact me.

Kind regards,
Dr Henk Valk
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[sarjeet46]

Wish you a good day
I am a retired agriculture scientist and interested to know more about this project. what are other raw materials which can be used along with animal manure to produce power. whether it relates to biogas production or some thing else. If it is other than biogas then i would like to intall a plant in the rural area in my native place . What would be its cost and maketing strategy.

Thank

Yours

Dr. Sarjeet Singh
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[hollandindia2008]

Dear Dr Singh,

Thanks for your response. Its a great honour for me to be in touch with a retired Indian agricultural scientist!

Beside animal manure, all other components containing more or less degradable organic components can be used in the anaerobic fermentation process to produce methane/CO2. So, rest-products from human food industry (de-oiled cake, bagasse, rice husks) crop residues (paddy straw, coconut fronds ect), kitchen wastes, sludges and so on. Especialy for crop residue, we are in touch with Wageningen University to implement a new method making for example wheat straw more degradable resulting in more biogas. As we need to use some heat for that, this process can be efficiently combined with biogas power production using the restheat from the gensets. Using that method, we need to investigate also if we can improve the feeding value of wheat straw or other low digestibe fodders as feed for cows/buffalos. The first labscale experiments shows increased organic matter digestibilities from 60% to 75% which is a markedly increase.

The fact is if only animal manure is used in a digester, the biogas production is relatively low, but combining with rest-products, biogas production can be increased resulting in more power.

Setup and costs depends highly on the amount of inputs that are available. If there is only manure, high digester volume is needed to produce 500 kW resulting in higher investment in civil work.

For rural area, we have now a simple system under development in Indonisia. The results of that looks very good and can be used also in India producing efficiently power in rural areas.

Kind regards,
Henk
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[naveentk]

Hello sir,

Can you please explain in financial terms how this project works out? if we have 20 cattle.

Thanks
Naveen

 

[kogikap]

yr advert

pl send yr email with details,please contact...

we are looking to convert our maize waste on 800 acres in bio methane and bio fertizer.
regards

 

[hollandindia2008]

Dear Naveen,

Assuming that you have 20 dairy cows, I expect a manure production of 20 kg per cow per day, resulting in 400 kg animal per day as input in the fermenter. That will led to a 2 kW genset which can run 12h a day. So, for power production these quantities of manure are too low. More animal manure is needed, let say of 100 cows so that a 5 kW genset can run 12h a day. These small gensets for biogas are available in China for good price, but not available in EU.
Another option is when you combine your manure with available restproducts or wastes, but these needs to be constant available while its not good to change the menu of the fermenter too much bcs that influences the bacterial process.

Hope that this info helps you further.

Kind regards,
Henk

 

[bloubul]

Hallo Dr.
I would like info on gas power plant fed by manure.
I would like to build such a plant on my smallholding.
I have a 13KW Generator and a petrol Lister motor.
Regards
Jannie Herholdt

Hello,

If anyone likes to know how he can convert animal or other organic waste into power, please contact me. We are expert in biogas power plants in the range 50 kW to 2 MW using the latest EU (mainly German) technology. In our view most components can be locally supplied if possible so that costs can be reduced as much as possible.

We work together with a powerful respected Indian company which recently resulted in the setup of an Indian Pvt Ltd. Nowadays we have a plant of 1,5 MW under construction using 350 mT buffalo and 40 mT poultry manure. This plant will run in March next year.

Our intention is to introduce the EU technology of biogas power installations into the Indian industry in a competitive way in order to make high demanded power electricity, avoid environmental pollution (methane, ammonia, phosphate leaching) and make especially the production chain of human food (milk or other food products) more sustainable by using their byproducts.

If anyone likes to know seriously more about our company or our expertise, please dont hesitate to contact me.

Kind regards,
Dr Henk Valk
Please contact...

 

[raamis]

Dear Dr. Valk

Good Day

Ref. your ad. regarding power from manure, we would appreciate details of the projects, its economics and setting up costs etc. for our various agriculture products.
We are in the business of resourcing and locating new technologies for our various clients in this business specially poultry farming.
We also have a farm of capacity of approx. 200,000 birds and so have an ample amount of litter at our disposal to utilize for power generation. Also there are many who are interested in this project to generate their own power for the farm.
Considering this, we offer our services to market the system / technology in pakistan starting from our own and then going for the market which is quite good.

Hope you appreciate our concern and will respond with details and relevant data to proceed.

Thanking you in anticipation.

Regards

Waseem A. Razaque
Director.
NIZAMI TRADERS
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[hollandindia2008]

Hello All.

First thanks for response and intentions to go for power from animal manure.

Its good to notice that:
- mainly cow/buffalo dung is suitable for anaerobic fermention bcs of its good C/N ratio (must be in range 23-28/1).
- Poultry manure contains C/N of 10 and is as such not suitable, only in combination with lot of cow/buffalo manure.
- biogas production from only cow/buffalo dung is low: 50 m3 / ton input, so one ton (a daily dung production of 35 cows) led to 50 x 2 = 100 kWh power: an engine of 8.3 kW running 12h a day (100/12) can produce it.
- so a farm with 200 buffalos can install en engine of 200/35 x 8.3 = 47 kW engine running 12h. Lets say 50 kW biogas power engine
- we have now under studying a farm based power plant using manure bag, mixers in combination with engine.
- However, making the biogas plant more efficient, its worthwhile to look for organic rest-products to co-digest togetehr with the animal manure. At least we need 20% cow/buffalo dung in the digester to buffer the anaerobic process which results in biogas containing methane, CO2 and H2S
- H2S is needed to be get out of the biogas as it damages the engine, we do it in our technology in a natural way, so no additional technology of purification of biogas for H2S is needed.
- Forexample the biogas form Miscanthus elephant gras is at least 150 m3 per ton input, 3 times more then cow dung. As a consequence the volume of the digester silos can be reduced by a factor of three, reducing costs for civil concrete work.
- Total investment costs dpends highly on the input thats available to digest: volume of digesters, mixing pumps control cabinet, pre-treatment, separation of treated digesta into solid and liquid phase. The solid phase is a VERY GOOD ORGANIC fertiliser and can be sold for good price.
- As much as can be handled all parts that are locally available will be arranged minimising costs. Equipment and gensets come from Holland and Germany and are proved in lots of biogas power plants (we installed 20 here in Holland and 120 plants in Germany).
- We do busines in India togetehr with our Indian friend which is well respected and powerful. For him, we install a plant now in Jabalpur using cow/buffalo dung.
- If there some who are interested to setup a plant, its good to have an idea which kind of materials that there are available per day, 365 days long. And the menu needs to be more or less constant for long time (cant be changed every week drastically) otherwise the microbes will stop their activity to degrade the material into biogas. So for example in the case of crop residue, we can think about a storage in a big clamp, and fed each day a part of it into the digester.
- All kinds of waste products containing an organic fraction can be used mango peels, coffee pulp/husk, coconut, palm, grass, sugar cane rest, groundnuts rest, wheat/rice straw/husk and so on, all products that are not fed to dairy cows or available in abundant amounts, can be used in the biogas power plant.

Hope this info is available to small/middle/big farmers or land owners/investors who want to go into power production.

With Kind and warm regards,
Dr Henk Valk

 

[sarjeet46]

Dear Henk
Have a good day

Thank u very much for you mail. First of all i would like to comment on the word animal manure which i feel is not the appropriate word. The manure means the decomposed product of animal dung,refuse and other wastes.If the maure is used i do not know whether it will generate methane co2 in desired quaintity as you have mentioned. So instead of using word maure you should use cow /buffalo dung. Secondly u have mentioned wheat, paddy straw, sugar cane leaves, maize dry stems, sugar cane bugasse and may more things. Most them are dryand may require more time for fermentation as compared to cow dung because itis partly digested and fermented and may require small energy in the process while dry material may be utilsing more energy out of the generated ones.If in both cases there is no difference then what do you think of saw dust and dry & greenlops of trees like popular eucliptis and other trees which are available in planty where the wood induries are there. whether the bacrium rquire will be same or different Pl give your openion.

Thanks and regards

Dr sarjeet Singh

 

[hollandindia2008]

power from organic wastes

Dear Dr Sarjeet,

Thanks for your commend. Given commends and critical remarks is the only way of making issues clear.

First point: manure/dung. You are right, when we talk about manure here in the EU then we mention the fraction dung and urine together as we collect it commonly under the floor where the cows walk. And it is handle also as such, so normally dung and urine togetehr is called manure. In the Indian situation cows are mainly held in tied barns and dung and urine are collected more or less separately. For biogas only the dung part is important as that contains the degradable OM resulting into methane. Biogas from manure (dung and urine) here in EU gives about 20 m3/ton mainly due to the fact that DM is low 9 - 10% compared to dung in India which reaches 16% or more. More DM results in more OM and therefore more biogas.

Second point: yes you are right that only paddy rice straw cant ferment as it is too dry. But in combination with other products, dung, manure, more wet byproducts its possible while we can digest at a final DM content of the whole menu of 30%. Above 30%, the digesta is not able to mix or pump from one silo to another and bcs of that anaerobic fermentation will be reduced or finally stopped. And of course futher we need to chop the paddy straw in small pieces in order to increase surface for better microbial degradation. Then further we can add some water only once and can recycle that after the treated digesta is separated into solid and liquid fraction. A part of that liquid fraction can be used again to the input silo reducing DM content to a level we want. I only mentioned these products bcs of the fact that these are in potential usefull for biogas production but of course need to handled within restricted constraints. Therefore, every setup of a plant highly dpends on the input materials available and is as such made to measure.

With kind regards,
Dr Henk Valk

 

[thota216]

This is Rama Krishna Thota from India planned to start a Dairy firm and generating Electricity from Animal Manure. Can u help me in this project

 

[lingappa]

Hello All.

First thanks for response and intentions to go for power from animal manure.

Its good to notice that:
- mainly cow/buffalo dung is suitable for anaerobic fermention bcs of its good C/N ratio (must be in range 23-28/1).
- Poultry manure contains C/N of 10 and is as such not suitable, only in combination with lot of cow/buffalo manure.
- biogas production from only cow/buffalo dung is low: 50 m3 / ton input, so one ton (a daily dung production of 35 cows) led to 50 x 2 = 100 kWh power: an engine of 8.3 kW running 12h a day (100/12) can produce it.
- so a farm with 200 buffalos can install en engine of 200/35 x 8.3 = 47 kW engine running 12h. Lets say 50 kW biogas power engine
- we have now under studying a farm based power plant using manure bag, mixers in combination with engine.
- However, making the biogas plant more efficient, its worthwhile to look for organic rest-products to co-digest togetehr with the animal manure. At least we need 20% cow/buffalo dung in the digester to buffer the anaerobic process which results in biogas containing methane, CO2 and H2S
- H2S is needed to be get out of the biogas as it damages the engine, we do it in our technology in a natural way, so no additional technology of purification of biogas for H2S is needed.
- Forexample the biogas form Miscanthus elephant gras is at least 150 m3 per ton input, 3 times more then cow dung. As a consequence the volume of the digester silos can be reduced by a factor of three, reducing costs for civil concrete work.
- Total investment costs dpends highly on the input thats available to digest: volume of digesters, mixing pumps control cabinet, pre-treatment, separation of treated digesta into solid and liquid phase. The solid phase is a VERY GOOD ORGANIC fertiliser and can be sold for good price.
- As much as can be handled all parts that are locally available will be arranged minimising costs. Equipment and gensets come from Holland and Germany and are proved in lots of biogas power plants (we installed 20 here in Holland and 120 plants in Germany).
- We do busines in India togetehr with our Indian friend which is well respected and powerful. For him, we install a plant now in Jabalpur using cow/buffalo dung.
- If there some who are interested to setup a plant, its good to have an idea which kind of materials that there are available per day, 365 days long. And the menu needs to be more or less constant for long time (cant be changed every week drastically) otherwise the microbes will stop their activity to degrade the material into biogas. So for example in the case of crop residue, we can think about a storage in a big clamp, and fed each day a part of it into the digester.
- All kinds of waste products containing an organic fraction can be used mango peels, coffee pulp/husk, coconut, palm, grass, sugar cane rest, groundnuts rest, wheat/rice straw/husk and so on, all products that are not fed to dairy cows or available in abundant amounts, can be used in the biogas power plant.

Hope this info is available to small/middle/big farmers or land owners/investors who want to go into power production.

With Kind and warm regards,
Dr Henk Valk

Dear Sir,
We are interesed in this animal waste to power project please contact so that we can dicuss further this matter.
LINGAPPA PORLA

 

[piping_2]

very good message

hi

i am an oil & gas engineer working in saudi arabia and would like to know more about power production from buffalo dung.

can you guide me in this regard.

PTV RAO

Hello All.

First thanks for response and intentions to go for power from animal manure.

Its good to notice that:
- mainly cow/buffalo dung is suitable for anaerobic fermention bcs of its good C/N ratio (must be in range 23-28/1).
- Poultry manure contains C/N of 10 and is as such not suitable, only in combination with lot of cow/buffalo manure.
- biogas production from only cow/buffalo dung is low: 50 m3 / ton input, so one ton (a daily dung production of 35 cows) led to 50 x 2 = 100 kWh power: an engine of 8.3 kW running 12h a day (100/12) can produce it.
- so a farm with 200 buffalos can install en engine of 200/35 x 8.3 = 47 kW engine running 12h. Lets say 50 kW biogas power engine
- we have now under studying a farm based power plant using manure bag, mixers in combination with engine.
- However, making the biogas plant more efficient, its worthwhile to look for organic rest-products to co-digest togetehr with the animal manure. At least we need 20% cow/buffalo dung in the digester to buffer the anaerobic process which results in biogas containing methane, CO2 and H2S
- H2S is needed to be get out of the biogas as it damages the engine, we do it in our technology in a natural way, so no additional technology of purification of biogas for H2S is needed.
- Forexample the biogas form Miscanthus elephant gras is at least 150 m3 per ton input, 3 times more then cow dung. As a consequence the volume of the digester silos can be reduced by a factor of three, reducing costs for civil concrete work.
- Total investment costs dpends highly on the input thats available to digest: volume of digesters, mixing pumps control cabinet, pre-treatment, separation of treated digesta into solid and liquid phase. The solid phase is a VERY GOOD ORGANIC fertiliser and can be sold for good price.
- As much as can be handled all parts that are locally available will be arranged minimising costs. Equipment and gensets come from Holland and Germany and are proved in lots of biogas power plants (we installed 20 here in Holland and 120 plants in Germany).
- We do busines in India togetehr with our Indian friend which is well respected and powerful. For him, we install a plant now in Jabalpur using cow/buffalo dung.
- If there some who are interested to setup a plant, its good to have an idea which kind of materials that there are available per day, 365 days long. And the menu needs to be more or less constant for long time (cant be changed every week drastically) otherwise the microbes will stop their activity to degrade the material into biogas. So for example in the case of crop residue, we can think about a storage in a big clamp, and fed each day a part of it into the digester.
- All kinds of waste products containing an organic fraction can be used mango peels, coffee pulp/husk, coconut, palm, grass, sugar cane rest, groundnuts rest, wheat/rice straw/husk and so on, all products that are not fed to dairy cows or available in abundant amounts, can be used in the biogas power plant.

Hope this info is available to small/middle/big farmers or land owners/investors who want to go into power production.

With Kind and warm regards,
Dr Henk Valk

 

[bdbv]

Dear Dr Henk Valkwe are also interested to implement 50kw power generation through Biogas in 20 site by using community fund/bankers for sustainable energy solution and want's your service we will be pay in ur terms kindly make contact.
Shailesh Pisalkar

 

[ndd123]

bio gas power plant

Mr. Henk,

Nice to see your clarifications. I am having a plan to develp one bio gas plant.

I am having few queries can you please send me your mail ID so that can drop you all my queries.

 

[ndd123]

Mr. HEnk,

Your posts regarding power production are very much useful. I had some queries can u mail me your email ID