In our waste-to-wealth series.
Let's talk about biogas!Biogas is produced by processing residual waste from livestock (dung, manure and uneaten food), food production (fruit and vegetable waste, residues from meat, fish and dairy processing, brewery waste, food waste and much more) and effluents from industrial as well as municipal wastewater treatment plants. By constructing biogas power plants, agriculture assumes an important contribution to supplying energy from renewable resources as well as to the disposal of organic wastes. Digestates are produced as a by-product of biogas manufacturing, which can in turn be used as high-quality digestate.
How Does Biogas Work?Biogas is a clean and renewable fuel (similar to LPG) that you can make yourself. You will be able to cook all of your normal meals with it.Biogas is made in a biogas digester. We call it a digester because it is a large tank filled with bacteria that eats (or digests) organic waste and gives a flammable gas, called biogas. Biogas systems make use of a relatively simple, well-known, and mature technology. The main part of a biogas system is a large tank, or digester. Inside this tank, bacteria convert organic waste into methane gas through the process of anaerobic digestion.
Takamoto Biogas was fouunded in March 2011 by a team of Americans and Kenyans, Takomoto Biogas has created a system that allows rural dairy farmers to convert cow dung (animal waste) into a clean and cheap fuel (biogas) that is used for cooking, lighting and heating.Takamoto Biogas provides Pay-As-You-Go biogas systems to its customers, mainly smallholder farmers, who pay a small fee to install the biogas system and then pay small monthly instalments for the biogas they use.
In this article, we examine TAKAMOTO BIOGAS, Kenya
Takamoto monitors the biogas system through a GSM-connected smart meter that sends information regarding the maintenance of the unit and customer payment status.In addition to the biogas system, Takamoto provides biogas household appliances. As of January 2014, 100 farmers in Kenya were benefiting from Takamoto‟s biogas solutions.It is estimated that there are about 2 million small scale dairy farmers in Kenya who cook with unhealthy and expensive wood fuels (like firewood and charcoal). Worse still, the high-carbon smoke produced by these wood fuels cause serious health problems and are harmful to the environment.Takamoto’s business is creating a viable energy alternative for rural communities, saving forest resources and making money at the same time! It’s amazing!
Let's talk about biogas!Biogas is produced by processing residual waste from livestock (dung, manure and uneaten food), food production (fruit and vegetable waste, residues from meat, fish and dairy processing, brewery waste, food waste and much more) and effluents from industrial as well as municipal wastewater treatment plants. By constructing biogas power plants, agriculture assumes an important contribution to supplying energy from renewable resources as well as to the disposal of organic wastes. Digestates are produced as a by-product of biogas manufacturing, which can in turn be used as high-quality digestate.
How Does Biogas Work?Biogas is a clean and renewable fuel (similar to LPG) that you can make yourself. You will be able to cook all of your normal meals with it.Biogas is made in a biogas digester. We call it a digester because it is a large tank filled with bacteria that eats (or digests) organic waste and gives a flammable gas, called biogas. Biogas systems make use of a relatively simple, well-known, and mature technology. The main part of a biogas system is a large tank, or digester. Inside this tank, bacteria convert organic waste into methane gas through the process of anaerobic digestion.
Takamoto Biogas was fouunded in March 2011 by a team of Americans and Kenyans, Takomoto Biogas has created a system that allows rural dairy farmers to convert cow dung (animal waste) into a clean and cheap fuel (biogas) that is used for cooking, lighting and heating.Takamoto Biogas provides Pay-As-You-Go biogas systems to its customers, mainly smallholder farmers, who pay a small fee to install the biogas system and then pay small monthly instalments for the biogas they use.
In this article, we examine TAKAMOTO BIOGAS, Kenya
Takamoto monitors the biogas system through a GSM-connected smart meter that sends information regarding the maintenance of the unit and customer payment status.In addition to the biogas system, Takamoto provides biogas household appliances. As of January 2014, 100 farmers in Kenya were benefiting from Takamoto‟s biogas solutions.It is estimated that there are about 2 million small scale dairy farmers in Kenya who cook with unhealthy and expensive wood fuels (like firewood and charcoal). Worse still, the high-carbon smoke produced by these wood fuels cause serious health problems and are harmful to the environment.Takamoto’s business is creating a viable energy alternative for rural communities, saving forest resources and making money at the same time! It’s amazing!
This is indeed a huge development. It will be of benefit especially in solving the energy problems across rural areas in Nigeria.
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