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Biogas Feasibility in rural Cambodia
I am a student Chemical Engineer at the University of Edinburgh, and currently the president of our EWB branch at Edinburgh University. I am emailing from Cambodia as the NGO I am currently working with here have undertaken a project including building children’s homes, having an onsite vegetable garden, and building a school and education centre. The site is only 4 months into development, but currently electricity does not reach to the site.
There is to be a pig farm on site and as well as using the manure to fertilise the fields we were wondering about the possibility of generating biogas as a fuel for gas burners or in order to generate electricity.
I have carried out some initial research and am in the process of trying to get some cost estimates, materials needed and potential suppliers (there is access to concrete, clay, bricks, metal, however wood is not readily available and would need to be imported) also the efficiency and cost of biogas compared to something like solar power as we want it to be sustainable.
Have you carried out any similar projects? If you have information on the above and any further technical advice it would be much appreciated.
Regards,
Miriam
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Biogas Feasibility in rural Cambodia
I am a student Chemical Engineer at the University of Edinburgh, and currently the president of our EWB branch at Edinburgh University. I am emailing from Cambodia as the NGO I am currently working with here have undertaken a project including building children’s homes, having an onsite vegetable garden, and building a school and education centre. The site is only 4 months into development, but currently electricity does not reach to the site.
There is to be a pig farm on site and as well as using the manure to fertilise the fields we were wondering about the possibility of generating biogas as a fuel for gas burners or in order to generate electricity.
I have carried out some initial research and am in the process of trying to get some cost estimates, materials needed and potential suppliers (there is access to concrete, clay, bricks, metal, however wood is not readily available and would need to be imported) also the efficiency and cost of biogas compared to something like solar power as we want it to be sustainable.
Have you carried out any similar projects? If you have information on the above and any further technical advice it would be much appreciated.
Regards,
Miriam
