PORTABLE BIOGAS

PLANT
PROJECT MEMBERS: ANIKET D. ABHYANKAR
SWAPNIL S. MORE
CHITRA B. CHOUKEKAR
PUSHPA J. DHENGLE

PROJECT GUIDE:PROF. VINAYAK GAIKWAD

INTRODUCTION

Presently, India is facing severe problem in the sector of

Energy production, which may be more serious in the coming
decade or so.

the demand of fuel for cooking is growing day by day in our

country and because of this it is reaching a point of depletion.
This problem is overcome by using biogas.

Biogas is a renewable energy source which is the mixture of

different gases produced by the breakdown of organic matter
in the absence of oxygen.

Biogas can be produced from raw materials such as

agricultural waste, manure, municipal waste, plant material,
sewage, green waste or food waste, crops etc.

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So biogas plant is planned to be implemented near the canteen of

our college for cooking purpose which is portable.
As the Kitchen waste is organic material having the high calorific
value thats why efficiency of methane production can be
increased by using this waste as a feedstock.
As a result of the higher efficiency, the size and cost of this plant
are also lower. And it occupies less space. It is an extremely user
friendly system, because it requires daily only a couple of kg
feedstock. The small amount of solid residue produced by the
biogas plant makes a good fertilizer.

TYPES OF PORTABLE BIOGAS

PLANT

BALLOON TYPE

FIXED DOME TYPE

FLOATING DRUM
TYPE

LAYOUT

COMPARISION
Parameters

Design

Conventional
Biogas Systems

Portable Biogas
plant

Digging required, Large

construction.

Digging NOT required,

simple and easy
Construction

Nature of required feedstock

DUNG

Any BIO DEGRADABLE

material

Installation

Requires Huge land

space

Small household space

Reaction Time for full utilization

of feedstock

40 days

42-78 hours

40kg

2kg

Rs. 20,000-40,000

Rs. 5,000-7,000

Hard

Easy

For 500gm Methane feedstock

required

Capital Investment per unit

including stove
Maintenance

ADVANTAGES

Portable
Renewable Source of Energy
Non-Polluting
Reduces Land space
Cheaper Technology
Fast Processing
Reduction of greenhouse gas

Typical composition of biogas

Sr.
No.

Components

Symbol

Percentage

Methane

CH4

5075%

Carbon dioxide

CO2

2550%

Nitrogen

N2

0-10%

Hydrogen

H2

0-1%

Hydrogen Sulphide

H2S

0-3%

Oxygen

O2

0-0.5%

COMPONENTS

Gas Holder Tank

Digester Tank

Elbow Joint

Steel Gas Pipe

T shape Joint

PVC Pipes

Cock For Maintenance

Gas stove

Cock for Gas outlet

COMPONENTS AND
DIMENSIONS
COMPONENTS

DIAMETER
MM

HIEGHT
INCH

MM
INCH

DRUM 750 LITRE

1030

41

1100

43

DRUM 500 LITRE

910

36

960

38

PVC PIPE FOR INPUT

152.4

914.4

PVC PIPE FOR SLURRY

63

609.6

PVC PIPE FOR

MAINTENANCE

63

304.8

ELBOW JOINT

63

COCK FOR MAITENANCE

63

MT & FT

63*2

COST
COMPONENTS

COST

DRUM 750 LITRE

3500

DRUM 500 LITRE

2500

PVC PIPE FOR INPUT

500

PVC PIPE FOR SLURRY

500

PVC PIPE FOR MAINTENANCE

ELBOW JOINT

50

COCK FOR MAITENANCE

350

MT & FT

600

MT & FT FOR INLET

700

Feedstock available
The amount of stock we are going to provide in our project is
about:
1. 4-5 kg of kitchen organic waste which is provided from
our collage canteen premises. Eg: Left over food , Paper,
vegetable leftover and stock.
2. Whereas 1 kg of green grass is provided from the college
surrounding.
3. Remaining waste is provided from the nearby cow
shelter(Gau shala)

FUTURE SCOPE
Generation of electricity from Slurry.
Generation of electricity from Biogas
Plant.
Slurry can also be used as Fertilizer.
Scaling of a project for
implementation in large scale.

REFERENCES

http://biogas-technology.blogspot.i
n/2013/10/homemade-medium-size-biog
as-plant-for.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biogas
ARTI (APPROPRIATE RURAL
TECHNOLOGY INSTITUTE)
Kitchen waste to biogas fuel (PDF)