Great news, you can now get a conversion kit for around US$30 ! It's all on ALI-EXPRESS. I found one for $34 (6.5Kw) I haven't installed it yet but I know someone who has fitted their's and is loving it !!
Very interesting mate. May I suggest trying to put some pressure gauges on your fittings and observing them to see what the generator requires. Also perhaps use a watt meter and multimeter on the generator and run different loads to see what is being drawn from it. Might be able to get a happy medium or find optimum settings for certain loads to regulate use of your gas. We will be off grid soon and I plan on adding a biogas generator. Cheers 👍
My name is Mike. I have a method you'll like. It makes your generator safe. It's cheap. I've been doing conversation of gasoline to propane. My goal was to make it safe. Everything you were talking about I learned. Be Careful of running engine too slow because it will eat the brushes. But this all is exactly what I have been working on. With what I know now I wonder if I can run a v 8.
Man....the possibilities here. You could take an inexpensive PLC and program in a PID tied to o2 sensor. Output of 4 to 20 ma controller and a valve. Let the plc amd programming control fuel ratio. It is very possible.
Great stuff, it's always good to catch up with your progress. I was wondering what sort of heat come from the exhaust, i always try to add (or suggest adding ) an EGR heat exchanger on to small exhausts. Maybe you can use the heat produced for a water cylinder or something similar.
Very likable youtuber! Looking to track down your latest one. Reading comments make me want to be asking a stupid question : Is it possible to compress out of one tank into another with the air compressor you have? Would the 160 psi in the first tank help the compressor shove more into the next tank?
Many thanks for your prompt reply and yes it is producing burnable gas - I boiled the kettle with it yesterday! How do I add another $ contribution to your account - your information is well worth paying for and I am happy to add some more $ for you. Cheers, Phil.
Thanks Phil, I am happy to help out and glad that you have it all up and running, it’s a good feeling hey. Mate the $’s are not necessary, but I wouldn’t say no to some funds to help me make more videos . I do have a PayPal: danieltaurins86@hotmail.com ? Keep me updated with your progress 👍
Looks great! What if you design a setup, where the generator is placed underneath an isolated biodigester? (You could basicly use small strawbunches.) An engine like that produces around 75% heat, that could keep the digester indipendend to the environmental temperatures. That would be even saver heating for the digester, than an open gas stove and you would get the same amount of electrial energy, as you get in your setup. Just it would be the „waste“ of the improved digestion process. Unfortinatly I don‘t have the opportunity to do it myself right now. But it would be cool to know, if it works out.
I was thinking that an EGR (exhaust gas recirculator) heat exchanger could heat a water cylinder, maybe the water cylinder could in turn be a heat exchanger somehow with the digester
I wonder if you ran a t-fitting from that exhaust recirculating hose into your biogas line, if you could run uncompressed biogas because the exhaust recirculation gases would create a Venturi effect sucking in the biogas with it
hey there, just a quick question, if a system was using the food waste, say through a waste disposal unit in the kitchen sink and combined with lets waste from the toilet, would the chemicals from dishwasher soap from the sink and the dishwasher water from the dishwasher machine with the toilet chemicals kill the breakdown process?
Great stuff! Would like to learn more about feed rate & feed type optimisation. There must be head room to improve this end of the system and get more methane production.
Might have to do a vid, with feed rates and temp comparisons, but it is very hard to do as different feed has different caloric rates, ie meat will produce more gas than grass, like being on a diet.
@@danieltaurins86 yea makes sense. I wounder could you ensile grass and other dryish waste from the garden and use it as a kind of 'bio battery' just feed in when you need the gas. I'm in Ireland so grass is plenty here! Maybe not as good for where you are. Sugar beet maybe an option?
Love you work. Just wondering why you are bothering compressing it into bottles, just to regulate it back again? That's gotta be using ALOT of energy.. I'm thinking, why not just buid a mini compressor using a quality air diagphram pump and set it to maintain 2.75kpa (regular lpg regulated pressure) I'm thinking I have a lil 12v jabsco diaphragm water pump. It has a pressure switch in it, turns on to maintain 40psi. I open my tap, the pump turns on. It's low power and can run on my solar system, I'm sure something similar could be done with biogas. And you can just use a long airline to go to various areas (kitchen, garage etc). The energy in moving the bottles around alone is to much considering only an hour or so gas fits inside. Plus the electricy used to compress it to 100+psi would be so much more than the energy you are getting out of the gas.
I am in the UK and I have built a generator exactly the same way as yours in an IBC - thanks to your excellent series of videos. I have added some fresh digestate from a commercial operation nearby and as you suggest, I am now waiting three weeks before adding my own food scraps. The digester is producing gas already. The question is do I need to add small amounts of fresh digestate (same as the original input) during that three week wait to keep the bacteria alive or will they be OK without any further addition until start feeding it in three weeks?
Hi Phil, thanks for the kind words, i would think that if you sourced digestate from an already established digester, and if is producing BURNABLE gas, there should be no issue with feeding it food scraps now 👍
Ill be using my to run a small motor and a PMA hooked to a grid-tie inverter. that way I am pushing the power back into the grid. using my old wind turbine DC 48v 1500 watts Tanks stay heated with 12v solar water heater element hooked to my solar array.
Really cool vid but idk if its just the generator or if its the biogas making it knock so much I worry how long it can last like that. Plus are there any problems with the oil distribution in the engine?
How about mixing biogas and nitrous oxide refilling a colman camp stove bottle together for a race gokart and see what kind of performance by mixing the two fuels together
Will it be able to run the compressor to fill 800L into your holding tank? your honda is aprox 20 persent efficient and your copressor even less efficient. But fantastic if it works!!
I've been doing some research into biogas recently. I'm right now working on building a home and am planning on having 10kwh, worth of solar panels and 40kwh's of lithium batteries. (It's a bit overkill, but I'm doing it all DIY so the costs are relatively low) I want to be able to have a reliable backup for winter's or for prolonged cloudy weeks. I was initially planning on having a generac natural gas/propane generator that would kick in if the batteries dropped below 10%. Now I'm exploring using biogas instead of the propane, as I'll be using the fertilizer for my hydroponics, and not needing to rely on paying someone to refill the propane would be nice. Since it's going to be used sparingly (I should have close to 100% energy uptime from solar), I was thinking of installing a large underground propane tank and regularly pushing gas from a bladder into the tank. I know there is a lot that goes into a system like this, but having been using biogas, do you think it's feasible?
Lithium is over hyped. Look at the costs per kw for it and then there is no study on longevity in comparison to older battery technology which has been around for over 100 years steady and reliable.
@@MrJFoster1984 lithium iron phosphate has come a long way in price. 40kwh's can easily be purchased for under $13k if you build the batteries from individual cells.
I'm just a caveman, but from what I've read. It's 'feasible', but the impurities can damage your generator over time. Sulfur something or other is found in unfiltered biogas.
You should be arrested for practicing witchcraft ! What a fantastic idea though, if you can control the resultant heat and co2 output !! Perhaps, running the generator on a timer could be a decent workaround in terms of controlling the heat and co2. This is a nifty idea I could run with but, unfortunately, I do not have the luxury of space to start a greenhouse. All the best with your project.
Yeah after going back to the previous vid with the generator where you run it off of gas for a while it doesnt sound like it knocks as much as in this vid off of biogas. I wonder how this effect could be midigated because I would love to do something like this in the future.
Could you simply create useful generator gas fuel pressure by having weights on the gas bag instead of having to pressurise into an empty gas cylinder?
Brother, where can I buy 2” and 3” rubber seals for the IBC Totes (for connecting 2” and 3” PVC Pipe thru the IBCs)? And what are they called? i cannot find them on eBay!
They're called uniseals I Googled it and the company's that sells them popped up I'm just waiting for the ground to thaw lm going to dig down and move the shed over them want to see how it'll do for pressure if i put one tote on top of another hook the bottom one to the bottom of the top one fill the bottom one up with water so that as the methane is produced it will go in the bottom tote forcing the water from the bottom tote to the top tote to give the gas pressure i saw a video where they run the effluent from the first tank to the second tank giving it longer to digest you get methane from both tanks
Hi mate filled some bottles up but they won't light a flame on the BBQ unless I cover the air inlets after gas on/off valve, is this because of to much oxygen in biogas or is this something you changed on the BBQ?
The orifices on LPG appliances are smaller than for NG or biogas. Some you can change or you can drill them out. Just search converting from LPG to NG, there are some good vids on how to make it work.
Turning free food waste into 1 hr of power in an emergency situation is valuable knowledge & survival skills. May not be efficient for you in your electric grid-dependent lifestyle - but this is priceless in an off grid scenario - indeed! 🌈
Great news, you can now get a conversion kit for around US$30 !
It's all on ALI-EXPRESS. I found one for $34 (6.5Kw)
I haven't installed it yet but I know someone who has fitted their's and is loving it !!
name or link please?
Very interesting mate. May I suggest trying to put some pressure gauges on your fittings and observing them to see what the generator requires. Also perhaps use a watt meter and multimeter on the generator and run different loads to see what is being drawn from it. Might be able to get a happy medium or find optimum settings for certain loads to regulate use of your gas. We will be off grid soon and I plan on adding a biogas generator. Cheers 👍
The gas-powered fridge is brilliant! My ford camper van has one.
Mate i love your videos on the biogas and all the things you can do with it, keep it up.
My name is Mike. I have a method you'll like. It makes your generator safe. It's cheap. I've been doing conversation of gasoline to propane. My goal was to make it safe. Everything you were talking about I learned. Be Careful of running engine too slow because it will eat the brushes. But this all is exactly what I have been working on. With what I know now I wonder if I can run a v 8.
Great video about biogas
Fabulous! Add in a wood gasifier...things will heat up and get VERY interesting!!
Im glade i found your channel
Thank you. Lots of thoughtful information
Thanks man . Your videos helps a lot .
I came back to leave a like! Thanks a lot, this video really helped!
You're a mentor to me !
Another awesome vid
Wow!!! Thanks for this innovation.
Amazing content
Man....the possibilities here. You could take an inexpensive PLC and program in a PID tied to o2 sensor. Output of 4 to 20 ma controller and a valve. Let the plc amd programming control fuel ratio. It is very possible.
Nice work.
Great stuff, it's always good to catch up with your progress.
I was wondering what sort of heat come from the exhaust, i always try to add (or suggest adding ) an EGR heat exchanger on to small exhausts. Maybe you can use the heat produced for a water cylinder or something similar.
cheers dude
Very likable youtuber!
Looking to track down your latest one.
Reading comments make me want to be asking a stupid question :
Is it possible to compress out of one tank into another with the air compressor you have? Would the 160 psi in the first tank help the compressor shove more into the next tank?
Many thanks for your prompt reply and yes it is producing burnable gas - I boiled the kettle with it yesterday! How do I add another $ contribution to your account - your information is well worth paying for and I am happy to add some more $ for you. Cheers, Phil.
Thanks Phil, I am happy to help out and glad that you have it all up and running, it’s a good feeling hey. Mate the $’s are not necessary, but I wouldn’t say no to some funds to help me make more videos . I do have a PayPal: danieltaurins86@hotmail.com ?
Keep me updated with your progress 👍
Good video 👌👌👌
Cool! :) How did you make your gas bag?
Would love to see a video on liquifying the methane into a propane cylinder.
Looks great!
What if you design a setup, where the generator is placed underneath an isolated biodigester? (You could basicly use small strawbunches.)
An engine like that produces around 75% heat, that could keep the digester indipendend to the environmental temperatures. That would be even saver heating for the digester, than an open gas stove and you would get the same amount of electrial energy, as you get in your setup. Just it would be the „waste“ of the improved digestion process.
Unfortinatly I don‘t have the opportunity to do it myself right now. But it would be cool to know, if it works out.
I was thinking that an EGR (exhaust gas recirculator) heat exchanger could heat a water cylinder, maybe the water cylinder could in turn be a heat exchanger somehow with the digester
I'm wondering how much energy the compression process used vs. charging the iPad fueled by biogas ... did it even out in the end?
I wonder if a bit more efficiency could be achieved by mixing woodgas together with the biogas
Also what's your thoughts on having/not having spark arrestors on the digester tanks and storage bags?.. not needed because of no oxygen or?..
Have you looked into using biochar as part of your gas filtration?
I wonder if you ran a t-fitting from that exhaust recirculating hose into your biogas line, if you could run uncompressed biogas because the exhaust recirculation gases would create a Venturi effect sucking in the biogas with it
Hi I'm making biodigester from my school project and I was wondering how much biogas (in kg) can you compress into a typical p-13 cylinder ?
It’s funny, you’re biogas season is starting up and mine is cooling down here in the north east of the United States. My three digesters are sleeping.
Can you add something to heat it up. Lyme or something.
@@mowtivatedmechanic1172 compost
hey there, just a quick question, if a system was using the food waste, say through a waste disposal unit in the kitchen sink and combined with lets waste from the toilet, would the chemicals from dishwasher soap from the sink and the dishwasher water from the dishwasher machine with the toilet chemicals kill the breakdown process?
Great stuff! Would like to learn more about feed rate & feed type optimisation. There must be head room to improve this end of the system and get more methane production.
Might have to do a vid, with feed rates and temp comparisons, but it is very hard to do as different feed has different caloric rates, ie meat will produce more gas than grass, like being on a diet.
@@danieltaurins86 yea makes sense. I wounder could you ensile grass and other dryish waste from the garden and use it as a kind of 'bio battery' just feed in when you need the gas. I'm in Ireland so grass is plenty here! Maybe not as good for where you are. Sugar beet maybe an option?
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I really enjoy your videos.
But we have to figure out a way to safely store a much large volume of gas
Hello, very nice video. May I ask please how long time need aprox for that 1000L bag to get full of gas from empty? Thank you
How are the biogas digester doing making lots of gas. My thing is what do i need to run my generator for at least 6 hours.
Love the video but please reconsider the nose ring.
Love you work.
Just wondering why you are bothering compressing it into bottles, just to regulate it back again? That's gotta be using ALOT of energy..
I'm thinking, why not just buid a mini compressor using a quality air diagphram pump and set it to maintain 2.75kpa (regular lpg regulated pressure)
I'm thinking I have a lil 12v jabsco diaphragm water pump. It has a pressure switch in it, turns on to maintain 40psi. I open my tap, the pump turns on. It's low power and can run on my solar system, I'm sure something similar could be done with biogas.
And you can just use a long airline to go to various areas (kitchen, garage etc).
The energy in moving the bottles around alone is to much considering only an hour or so gas fits inside. Plus the electricy used to compress it to 100+psi would be so much more than the energy you are getting out of the gas.
I am in the UK and I have built a generator exactly the same way as yours in an IBC - thanks to your excellent series of videos. I have added some fresh digestate from a commercial operation nearby and as you suggest, I am now waiting three weeks before adding my own food scraps. The digester is producing gas already. The question is do I need to add small amounts of fresh digestate (same as the original input) during that three week wait to keep the bacteria alive or will they be OK without any further addition until start feeding it in three weeks?
Hi Phil, thanks for the kind words, i would think that if you sourced digestate from an already established digester, and if is producing BURNABLE gas, there should be no issue with feeding it food scraps now 👍
Ill be using my to run a small motor and a PMA hooked to a grid-tie inverter. that way I am pushing the power back into the grid. using my old wind turbine DC 48v 1500 watts Tanks stay heated with 12v solar water heater element hooked to my solar array.
Really cool vid but idk if its just the generator or if its the biogas making it knock so much I worry how long it can last like that. Plus are there any problems with the oil distribution in the engine?
After looking further it should be find since its not a 2 cycle.
How about mixing biogas and nitrous oxide refilling a colman camp stove bottle together for a race gokart and see what kind of performance by mixing the two fuels together
I have SO MANY questions / comments..... I will start with do you have a website to visit ???
How many liters of gas can you pressurize in this size of a tank?? Is it possible to fit in 2 or even 5000 liters?
Will it be able to run the compressor to fill 800L into your holding tank? your honda is aprox 20 persent efficient and your copressor even less efficient.
But fantastic if it works!!
I've been doing some research into biogas recently. I'm right now working on building a home and am planning on having 10kwh, worth of solar panels and 40kwh's of lithium batteries. (It's a bit overkill, but I'm doing it all DIY so the costs are relatively low)
I want to be able to have a reliable backup for winter's or for prolonged cloudy weeks. I was initially planning on having a generac natural gas/propane generator that would kick in if the batteries dropped below 10%.
Now I'm exploring using biogas instead of the propane, as I'll be using the fertilizer for my hydroponics, and not needing to rely on paying someone to refill the propane would be nice. Since it's going to be used sparingly (I should have close to 100% energy uptime from solar), I was thinking of installing a large underground propane tank and regularly pushing gas from a bladder into the tank.
I know there is a lot that goes into a system like this, but having been using biogas, do you think it's feasible?
Lithium is over hyped. Look at the costs per kw for it and then there is no study on longevity in comparison to older battery technology which has been around for over 100 years steady and reliable.
@@MrJFoster1984 lithium iron phosphate has come a long way in price.
40kwh's can easily be purchased for under $13k if you build the batteries from individual cells.
Your contact number
Or your imo
I'm just a caveman, but from what I've read. It's 'feasible', but the impurities can damage your generator over time. Sulfur something or other is found in unfiltered biogas.
Really curious if it produced co2 when burned then I may make one for the greenhouse for heat and co2 gen for the plants
You should be arrested for practicing witchcraft ! What a fantastic idea though, if you can control the resultant heat and co2 output !!
Perhaps, running the generator on a timer could be a decent workaround in terms of controlling the heat and co2.
This is a nifty idea I could run with but, unfortunately, I do not have the luxury of space to start a greenhouse.
All the best with your project.
Yeah after going back to the previous vid with the generator where you run it off of gas for a while it doesnt sound like it knocks as much as in this vid off of biogas. I wonder how this effect could be midigated because I would love to do something like this in the future.
Probably need a gas regulator and run it off a bottle you compress will run smoother from what ive seen from other vids.
Could you simply create useful generator gas fuel pressure by having weights on the gas bag instead of having to pressurise into an empty gas cylinder?
How long does it usually take for your digesters to generate a full bag of 1000L of Biogas?
Hey mate, depends on how often you feed, temps, and what you feed, ideally I can produce 1xm3 every day or 2
Brother, where can I buy 2” and 3” rubber seals for the IBC Totes (for connecting 2” and 3” PVC Pipe thru the IBCs)? And what are they called? i cannot find them on eBay!
They're called uniseals I Googled it and the company's that sells them popped up I'm just waiting for the ground to thaw lm going to dig down and move the shed over them want to see how it'll do for pressure if i put one tote on top of another hook the bottom one to the bottom of the top one fill the bottom one up with water so that as the methane is produced it will go in the bottom tote forcing the water from the bottom tote to the top tote to give the gas pressure i saw a video where they run the effluent from the first tank to the second tank giving it longer to digest you get methane from both tanks
Hi mate filled some bottles up but they won't light a flame on the BBQ unless I cover the air inlets after gas on/off valve, is this because of to much oxygen in biogas or is this something you changed on the BBQ?
The orifices on LPG appliances are smaller than for NG or biogas. Some you can change or you can drill them out. Just search converting from LPG to NG, there are some good vids on how to make it work.
What kind of pressure does the gas need to be going into the generator at with a load on the generator. Also what is the burn rate?
How do you compress your bio gas into cylinders ? Can you give any LINKS. to what i need ? to set that system up ...
Have a look at my past vids
@@danieltaurins86 hi yes a couple they ones about filling etc , but can you tell me the connections bits you used etc and name them thanks
I have some ideas would like to pm you please
Have a look at getting air con recovery unit and run you compressure into the inlet of that will get you to 600 to 800 psi in your tank
Ahav try five times but none
Hell your address
59 minutes....ugh not very efficient
Turning free food waste into 1 hr of power in an emergency situation is valuable knowledge & survival skills. May not be efficient for you in your electric grid-dependent lifestyle - but this is priceless in an off grid scenario - indeed! 🌈
Your bird in some day will stuck in your motor,cut it off please