A Biogas Digester in an IBC Container (Biogas1. see also Biogas 2&3)

A cheap way to make methane biogas for cooking. It is based on using a second hand IBC container. Feed it with food scraps and other biomass.

[@gordonsmit3396]

Awesome 👌🏻

[@JPHER217]

Interesting.. I was thinking of trying this on a natural gas generator..

[@davidoutdoors74]

Great video , biogas to me is the best way to power ones home. Im going to build two more digesters to add to my two that i have.

[@hsew]

Thanks for the video. So besides the smell there is no downside to running just regular biogas as opposed to biomethane in your burners and water heater?

[@lovingecosystems]

Biomethane is just biogas that has been refined to remove maybe two thirds of the CO2 and the hydrogen sulphide. It will burn a bit hotter than the regular biogas and will be more suitable for a direct replacement for natural gas in reticulated gas systems in towns and cities. It will have a smell added so that you can smell a leak. There is no smell from burnt biogas. The liquid fertiliser output has a bit of a smell but is not an unpleasant smell. Considering the hydrogen sulphide is a bit corrosive I wouldn't use it in a complicated system like a water heater. However you can put biogas through an activated carbon bed to remove the hydrogen sulphide and my previous bought system came with this, but i didn't find it necessary and didn't want to have to keep buying the activated carbon filters. That system also came with chlorine tablets for sterilizing the liquid output, but i found it destroyed the value of it as a fertilizer. You are unlikely to produce enough biogas to have enough to spare on top of cooking use. I have to be careful to use the biogas as efficiently as possible in order for it produce all my cooktop needs. I also have an induction cooktop for when I don't have enough biogas.