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Asked 29th Nov, 2017
Pingola Suberi
Pingola Suberi

Amount of biogas to cook for a person?

Quantity of biogas from human excreta to cook for a person
Biogas
Cooking

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Prabhakar Gundlapalli
Homi Bhabha National Institute
It depends on the calorific value, and source from where it is produced. The range can be wide, and a definite number cannot be specified.
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Carmen Mateescu
National Institute for Research and Development in Electrical Engineering ICPE-CA
The biogas flow required for one oven burner is ca. 200 liter/hour. This is an approximate flow (consumption) since it depends on nozzle size, gas pressure etc.. It means that 1 cubic meter of biogas could be used for 5 hr. of cooking using one burner. Or half time for 2 burners. For one person there is needed not more than 0,2-0.4 cubic meters biogas per day only foor cooking. But this is still very relative... there is maybe not needed to cook everyday 2 hr/day...
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Chandra s Singh
JIMS,Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University
0.45 cubic meters per person per day
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Rami Alani
University of Baghdad
0.4 cubic meters per cooking hour .
I would like to recommend this book ,
https://www.sswm.info/sites/default/files/reference_attachments/VOEGELI%20et%20al%202014%20Anaerobic%20Digestion%20of%20Biowaste%20in%20Developing%20Countries.pdf
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Carmen Mateescu
National Institute for Research and Development in Electrical Engineering ICPE-CA
The biogas flow required for one oven burner is ca. 200 liter/hour. This is an approximate flow (consumption) since it depends on nozzle size, gas pressure etc.. It means that 1 cubic meter of biogas could be used for 5 hr. of cooking using one burner. Or half time for 2 burners. For one person there is needed not more than 0,2-0.4 cubic meters biogas per day only foor cooking. But this is still very relative... there is maybe not needed to cook everyday 2 hr/day...
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Prabhakar Gundlapalli
Homi Bhabha National Institute
It depends on the calorific value, and source from where it is produced. The range can be wide, and a definite number cannot be specified.
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