Tuesday, April 24, 2007

Methane from Waste

One method of obtaining methane is via biogas generated from waste. At first, the waste goes into a warming bed and gets heated until certain degree in order to separate methane from it. After that, methane is stored into the dirt trap while the waste can be used as fertilizer. Inside the dirt trap, the remain dirt is discarded through the release cap. Next, methane goes into the gas indicator unit to be mixed with water in a sealed container. At a certain temperature and pressure, bubbles are visible. It means some methane in gas form is developed. Then, while the excess gas of high pressure is released to the water inside the pressure release unit, the rest of the gas is stored into inner tubes of the gas holder. Here some weighs are being put on tubes in order to increase gas pressure. Finally, all of the tubes lead to a tap where methane can be released any time.

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