Do you know that one tone of chicken dung produces 130 m3 of biogas ??
I bet that not everybody know that..haha..hmm..that’s a fantastic fact right??
Chicken is thing that almost every day we eat..in McD of KFC, which is not very good.. hmm..now, chicken can make another product that help our living society to get more renewable energy…the energy comes from chicken’s dung.. imagine how many chicken farm in the world and how many dung that the farm produce..
Now,how can chicken dung which is just waste can produce biogas..here’s the process..enjoy it!
Chicken dung needs 1 year of storage in order to be applied as fertilizer. After treatment in biogas plant it is applicable without need for storage that makes possible to avoid its clutter in lagoons. In untreated state chicken dung has pungent odour caused by high ammonia content. After treatment in biogas plant ammonia concentration is considerably reduced that effects the odour.
Chicken dung drying and granulation are very energy consumptive that increase fertilizer net cost. Drying and granulating farm facility can be used for fermented biomass processing and fueled by biogas instead of natural gas.
By recycling chicken dung in biogas plant you get gas, electricity, heat and high quality fertilizer. Produced energy will be sufficient to provide poultry-houses, drying and granulating equipment with energy sources.
In anaerobically treated biomass nitrogen preserved in plant accessible ammonia form. One tone of solid bio-fertilizer contains 15-30 kg and liquid fraction 3-7 kg of ammonia nitrogen. Untreated chicken dung contains pathogenic microflora. After biogas plant treatment only active microflora present in biomass that stimulates soil microbiological processes. In the process of broiler breeding different types of litter are used. Mixture of dung and litter is not highly gas productive but also can be used as biogas plant raw material.
Peculiarities of poultry farm biogas plant
Main differences of chicken dung from other biogas raw materials are: 1) high protein content, which is nitrogen source 2) biomass humidity. That is why special technology for chicken dung should be used to be compared to cattle manure. Two stage technology. After receiving tank suited for 1-2 days storage capacity, biomass is pumped to hydrolysis bioreactor with 8-10 days retention time and special temperature, humidity and pH conditions. From hydrolysis reactor biomass is fed with certain proportions to bioreactor which is very important for bacterial balance. Biogas collected to outer gasholders made of durable and tensile material.
As a rule poultry farms require electricity and gas. With that purpose biogas plant can be equipped with co-generation unit and gas treatment system. Co-generation unit made in container and includes fuel regulation and feeding system, cooling system, automatic control unit.
Gas treatment system is also containerized and equipped with gas pressure regulating system, cooling system, automatic control unit, and methane storage tank.
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Sep 06, 2011 @ 13:53:50
This is a nice presentation. Could you show a detailed step by step on how the biogas is manufactured?
Nov 06, 2011 @ 16:33:42
Thanks Jose for the comment, but sorry I can’t give more explanation about biogas manufacturing because my knowledge about it also limited. Maybe you can search in another blog or book. =D
Mar 15, 2012 @ 17:26:49
This is very good……. Thanks for sharing…
Jun 10, 2012 @ 02:13:02
Dear Sir/Madam
There are some chicken farms in Turkey with 90.000 – 100,000 chicken quantity and a biogas establishment needed to produce 25 kw energy from chicken recrements.
Please kindly inform if yours company is working on these kind of establishments.
We have a biogas establishment Project in Turkey and we have already completed the Project planning and credit organization for this establishment. As soon as we engage this establishment with success, we commit to continue with 20 or 30 projects.
We look forward to your cooperation on this Project.
Also is it possible to have the first system as demo? The credit, documentation and licence formalities in Turkey have been completed by our side. Please kindly inform us the cost for this work.
Best regards.
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Jun 12, 2012 @ 00:35:26
Hai Beyazit, thank you for your interest in this blog. Unfortunately, I am just a recent graduate student who interested about biogas technology. For more details and information maybe you can contact my senior in ITB who is expert in this area. His name is Mr. Andreas Wiji who is the founder of Cipta Tani Lestari Company. This company have a core business in selling biogas reactor mainly for cow farming. You can contact biogas_ctl@yahoo.com by email or +62227218289 by phone and +622282780540 by fax for details. Hope it will help you =D
Jan 14, 2013 @ 10:28:02
Dear Yildirim
I am currently working om a layer farm with 1million chicken. Our study shows that it can generate 650-700kW using gas engine. Biogas production from chicken dung varies from place to place and from type of chicken as well. The biggest secret is the process or design of the bioreactor. In our case we call it “Double Digestion” digester that can covert some 90%+ of the dung into biogas. Some bioreactor that I have seen have a conversion factor of only 60-70% thus not viable. Another big secret is the Techno-Financial Model that u construct to determine the Financial Viability. If not properly constructed it will give false viability result.
Actually it is quiet complex.
I am looking for Investor/Funding to set up this demo plant early this year. Do u hv funding? If so we can work together as there are big potentials in Asia as the trend is shifting from seafood to chicken.
Prof DR Ir MAL, Malaysia
Universiti Teknologi Malaysia
+60192170111
drtunsri@gmail.com
Dec 07, 2012 @ 22:31:09
How can i get or see a bioreactor.want 2 go into poultry and cattle farmer.yet i need a bioreactor
Dec 07, 2012 @ 22:33:56
I need explanatory on dung convertion 2 electricity and fertiliter
Feb 22, 2013 @ 17:44:18
hello,big brother i am a mechanical engineering student at UET LAHORE,PAKISTAN .having poultry farms for 60000 chicken and want to produce electricity and bio gas from poultry dung.can you suggest me some kinds of books and plant establishment.
Mar 25, 2013 @ 09:15:04
Dear Sir
So far I have not come across any book on subject matter. The info I found are are fragmented. My initial sources of info are from journals. Now I am in the process of conducting some lab studies to determine some critical parameters and liasing with engine suppliers on the both costing and technical aspects.
I like to advise those keen to embark on this to conduct a through study so that you will be successful. Be mindful as per my initial comment that this is indeed a complex project as the amount of biogases emitted per chicken varies with the feed and temp of the surrounding and the type of chicken. Other impurities in the process of farming that are biomass in nature can also be used but they differs greatly in the digesters, thus the quantity and quality will differ
Best of Luck
Mar 02, 2013 @ 13:08:52
Hi Prof Maulud, thanks for visiting my blog. I’m very honored.
Anyway, I have several question about the viability of the chicken dung biogas plant.
1. Is it possible to only use chicken manure to produce the biogas? Because I am looking at Rueckert Naturgas company website that they use just 70% chicken manure and use corn and grass silage for the rest 30%.
2. What is the minimum feed that required to meet the economical viability to run such chicken dung biogas plant?
3. Last one, same as Sarfraz, could you give us the reference books for this technology process and plant establishment?
Thanks Prof =D
Mar 02, 2013 @ 18:46:36
To answer your questions first:
1. We hv done a study and found out that one million chicken in Malaysia can produce enough gas to generate some 0.6-0.7MW of electricity. However I like to caution you that the dung’s energy potential depend very much on: Firstly, the feed…. In Malaysia 70% is from corn… So whether it is adequate or not for your requirement that depend on you requirement (which I donot know). Secondly is the gas engine efficiency. I assume 38%.
You can combine the dung with other protein waste to add to the gas production BUT be careful with the digester design as that is the Critical Component…. Success or not really depend on the ability of the digester to produce the Quantity and Quality methane. Methane must be not less than 45%. You must also use scrubber to clean the biogas of water and H2S.
2. Economic viability depend on a lot of variables… i donot hv enough data from u to be able to advise… sorry
3. We based our finding as an extension of our experience from biogas from Palm Oil Mill Effluent and Landfill gas power generation…. Basic are the same…
Thks n best of luck….
Prof Dr Ir Maulud drtunsri@gmail.com
Mar 22, 2013 @ 22:06:12
Hi Prof, that was good explanation for us. Thank you for sharing the knowledge. Hopefully many more biogas plant from chicken dung will be established in our region. Better for environment also better for our life ^^
Mar 25, 2013 @ 09:17:35
Dear Sir
Hope so but the comments I read here seems to come from people who just started. They must do alot of test and study before embarking on the project otherwise the project will not be viable. If the intention is just to produce biogas and use as lighting the process is quiet simple. But if to produce electricity it is rather complex
thks
Jan 15, 2014 @ 03:16:29
Prof Dr ir Maulud i have a question please help.
Can we use animal manure biogas plant for poultry farm wastes? please tell me the processes.
Thanks