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What is biogas?

What is biogas?. A mixture of methane and carbon dioxide. CH 4. CO 2. Methane or ‘swamp gas’, produced naturally in swampy ponds. What is this?. What is it used for?. Biogas is a fuel used as an energy source for light, heat or movement. ?.

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What is biogas?

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  1. What is biogas? • A mixture of methane and carbon dioxide CH4 CO2 • Methane or ‘swamp gas’, produced naturally in swampy ponds What is this?

  2. What is it used for? • Biogas is a fuel used as an energy source for light, heat or movement ?

  3. Leftover food from houses, shops, restaurants and factories Leftover straw and crops from farming Cow, sheep and chicken manure Sewage Leftover meat and blood from abattoirs How is it made? Biogas is produced by the breakdown of organic waste by bacteria without oxygen (anaerobic digestion or fermentation). What types of organic waste could be turned in biogas?

  4. How is it made? Biogas is made by fermenting organic waste in a biogas digester. Digesters vary from small household systems…

  5. ….to large commercial plants of several thousand cubic metres Holsworthy Biogas Plant, Devon

  6. It can also be captured from landfill sites where organic waste has been rotting under the ground

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