Talk:Biogas powerplant

I have tried to reformat this page to enable it to link into a number of very similar topics. Biogas powerplants are anaerobic digesters and are inextricably linked to waste management. This page must link power generation with energy generation in a more efficient way. I hope I have made a start on this. Please send comments to [email protected] --Alex 10:29, 6 June 2006 (UTC)

can bio--gas xcan be used as automobile fuel instead of petrol if yes what wil it require. please reply me on my e-mail- [email protected]

Yes, biogas can be converted to the specifications of natural gas and used for cars. An experiment with this is in Güssing Burgenland Austria. But on the other side, ICE is a very ineffective way to move a car. Since natural gas car have only a short range, they are mostly used in city traffic, where the ICE has an even worse efficiency.

When the biogas is instead used in a Molten-carbonate fuel cell with Steam turbine behind, a Plug-in hybrid or Battery electric vehicle could drive 4 times more km with the same biogas than an ICE car. --Pege.founder 05:22, 30 July 2006 (UTC)

Mistake in Plant Size

A 5 MW Power plant is listed as requiring a swuare kilometer. I think the author has made a mistake, and supposed 1000m^2 is a square kilometer. In fact, 1000000 m^2 represents a square kilometer.

Can the biogas production be increased by adding CO₂

can the production of biogas be increased by adding more percentage of CO(2) to the actual percentage??????if yes please provide the supporting proof...

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The overall volume of biogas will be greater however the energy value of the gas will be proportionally less as it is the CH₄ which gives the energy potential.--Alex 15:56, 15 November 2006 (UTC)

so it is not possible to increase the production of biogas by increasing the percentage of CO2.....am i right???

Yes you are right, I do not think this is possible--Alex 09:14, 20 November 2006 (UTC)