julianf
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What about making a small test setup?
You could use an inverted clear bottle, as large as you can easily find - maybe a watercooller bottle for example.
Fill it with water and invert it in another bucket of water, so it does not empty, then pipe your gas in with a little airline under the edge of the top (that's now, of course, the bottom)
You could then get a known (ish) quantity of your feedstock in another sealed container, on the other end of the pipe.
It would be a quick and easy experiment to see how much gas was produced from your particular feedstock - that would give you a way better grasp than random numbers off the interweb.
If you built the test rig in a vaguely sensible way, you could do other stuff like chuck in some of your daily kitchen waste to it also, and see how things changed with regards to output.
I know that, at my partner's old employer, they had one of those big rotary composters, and they had to chuck in sawdust to control, I guess, the moisture / air levels. It may be that doing that gives you a more rapid process or somthing too.
I tried to make it clear before that, if you are to press on, I'd very much like you to succeed.
You could use an inverted clear bottle, as large as you can easily find - maybe a watercooller bottle for example.
Fill it with water and invert it in another bucket of water, so it does not empty, then pipe your gas in with a little airline under the edge of the top (that's now, of course, the bottom)
You could then get a known (ish) quantity of your feedstock in another sealed container, on the other end of the pipe.
It would be a quick and easy experiment to see how much gas was produced from your particular feedstock - that would give you a way better grasp than random numbers off the interweb.
If you built the test rig in a vaguely sensible way, you could do other stuff like chuck in some of your daily kitchen waste to it also, and see how things changed with regards to output.
I know that, at my partner's old employer, they had one of those big rotary composters, and they had to chuck in sawdust to control, I guess, the moisture / air levels. It may be that doing that gives you a more rapid process or somthing too.
I tried to make it clear before that, if you are to press on, I'd very much like you to succeed.