Good morning Gents,
As we are hopefully moving onto our new block in the next few month, I have been trying to find a way to deal with the challenge of disposing the glycerine properly. We are going totally of grid, no sewer connection at all. Only the good old septic. Since we are using composting toilets, our septic is designed for that accordingly.
Over the weekend I had a look around and some people on the net suggested to take it to the sewer plant as they would be happy to take it for free to feed their methane digester. Being a practical curious guys as we all are on here, I had a look around and found out that it is rather easy to build your own digester and to make your own gas for cooking and possible heating/hot water.
Now the question, is there anyone here who has done or is doing just that? And if so, how much do you feed into the digester. I have read somewhere that glycerine is a high energy feed, so one must be careful not to feed to much otherwise acid forming bacteria kill the methane forming bacteria.
I figured since the pollies are threatening us with a gas shortage in the near future, prices will go up a fair bit, so making our own supply would be great.
Many thanks and have a great Monday!
Jens
As we are hopefully moving onto our new block in the next few month, I have been trying to find a way to deal with the challenge of disposing the glycerine properly. We are going totally of grid, no sewer connection at all. Only the good old septic. Since we are using composting toilets, our septic is designed for that accordingly.
Over the weekend I had a look around and some people on the net suggested to take it to the sewer plant as they would be happy to take it for free to feed their methane digester. Being a practical curious guys as we all are on here, I had a look around and found out that it is rather easy to build your own digester and to make your own gas for cooking and possible heating/hot water.
Now the question, is there anyone here who has done or is doing just that? And if so, how much do you feed into the digester. I have read somewhere that glycerine is a high energy feed, so one must be careful not to feed to much otherwise acid forming bacteria kill the methane forming bacteria.
I figured since the pollies are threatening us with a gas shortage in the near future, prices will go up a fair bit, so making our own supply would be great.
Many thanks and have a great Monday!
Jens
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