hi every one,
In this post am going to discuss biogas with farmers and renewable energy lovers, what is biogas? Biogas is form of renewable energy for your farm, this form of energy can be produce using your poultry dropping, piggery waste, cow dung etc... wastes are fermented in an anaerobic digester to produce flammable gas for cooking, heating (brooding ) or production of electricity for farm uses. this is great resources for all farmers in Nigeria, am sure that whenever you calculate how much money you spend on diesel and epileptic power supply from power holding, it can be frustrating sometimes.

Gas produced from farm waste is called Biogas, its a renewable, Biogas digester is a treatment plant, it can help to produce odour free farm, waste generated from your farm will be treated from all pathogens you can also get bio-fertilizer as byproduct of the system. biogas generation is simple anyone can do it, its can be done at home for domestic cooking and for home electricity using our kitchen waste. following are the benefits of biogas.

Advantages and Benefits of Biogas
1 Provides a non-polluting and renewable source of energy for farms.
2 Produces enriched organic manure, which can supplement or even replace chemical fertilizers.
3 Improved farm environment, sanitation and hygiene.
4 independent power generation for your farm.
5 The technology is cheaper and much simpler, all material to construct your bio-digester can be purchase locally, mostly cement block sand
and plastic
6 can be done on small scale application.
7 Any biodegradable matter can be used as substrate. ( cow dung, poultry dropping, pig waste, kitchen waste ) etc.
8 Anaerobic digestion of farm waste will help reducing the incidence of water borne diseases in and around your farm.
9 Environmental benefits on a global scale: Biogas plants significantly lower the greenhouse effects on the earth’s atmosphere. The plants lower methane emissions by entrapping the harmful gas and using it as fuel.

how can you build a digester (biogas reactor) for you farm ?
Before you start to build your digester, you need to select which material will be suitable for your purpose, burned bricks, cement blocks, and plastic can be used, always avoid anything metal when dealing with biogas digester, Hydrogen sulphide, (H2S) from your biogas will corrode metal fast,
its a easy to build a digester its always do it yourself (DIY) except you want to go on large scale, for bigger system you will an experienced technician to help you build that, but for smaller size, let say for kitchen uses or for small farmer below 1000 birds, there is a lots of online guide you can follow, still better if you can get a biogas technician around to help. there is a lots of them i know within lagos and ibadan, biogas is making waves among nigeria farmers, it can solve your farm energy crisis.

how much cooking gas / electricity can i get ?

1 500 birds 10kwh/day 5kg of cooking gas equivalent
2 1000 birds 20kwh/day 10 kg of cooking gas equivalent
3 2000 brids 45kwh/day 20 kg of cooking gas equivalent

Please can you give contacts of reliable biogas technicians in oyo state?