Biogas guzzlers: Karachi’s public buses to run on cow poo

[Nefarious]

Biogas is already a studied topic in the West

I might study it if Ferrari makes one

 

[Dubious]

I might study it if Ferrari makes one

I doubt like I said it doesnt produce that much energy....

 

[RoadRunner401]

It doesnt produce that much turnover...Running a bus is possible I think someone did so:

Renewable natural gas(RNG).

The Persigo Wastewater Treatment Plant is processing 8m gallons of Grand Junction’s Colorado human waste into renewable natural gas (RNG), also known as biomethane. The RNG is then used to fuel about 40 fleet vehicles, including garbage trucks, street sweepers, dump trucks and transit buses.

Renewable natural gas is a growing industry for fuel, electricity and heat. It’s possible through a process called anaerobic digestion, which breaks down organic matter into something called raw biogas. The biogas is then collected and upgraded to RNG – at pipeline quality – and can be used as electricity, heat or transportation fuel.

 

[Dubious]

processing 8m gallons

That requires $$ and energy!

 

[Chhatrapati]

It's Cow dung.

And yeah, I assisted in a project back in my collage days where you run a Gas turbine power plant from Biogas, usually bio waste products, but cow dung spike the gas output, given cow dung has more methane content in their manure it's up for a good fuel. (I don't know the specifics, coz I was supposed only to be part of electrical side)

But it has a flip side, the gas is generally impure, the project was stonewalled by the dean over some issues with turbines getting corroded faster and the initial cost of cleaning agents.

In here, we use biogas for cooking, and cow dung cakes as a fuel wood for cooking that's how cow became kinda important in India. Given it provides almost everything. In many places biogas plants are installed and is used for cooking, because unlike Pakistan not every state in India have natural gas supply lines the ones that are on are in initial stage.
Anyway, I hope @Dubious would keep them trolls out of this comment. *fingers crossed*

 

[RoadRunner401]

That requires $$ and energy!

Costs in Pakistan could be cheaper as labor cost is less in Pakistan than United states. I am not sure how much they will want for this, but cost them $2.8m US dollars. The cost to produce and compress the RNG is around 80 cents per GGE (Gasoline Gallon Equivalent) return on investment is about 7 to 10 years, depending on the price you sell it for..

 

[Dubious]

Costs in Pakistan could be cheaper as labor cost is less in Pakistan than United states. I am not sure how much they will want for this, but cost them $2.8m US dollars. The cost to produce and compress the RNG is around 80 cents per GGE (Gasoline Gallon Equivalent) return on investment is about 7 to 10 years, depending on the price you sell it for..

Sounds reasonable! Wonder why none of our depts gave it a thought...Wonder how much kickbacks one can get from importing fossil fuels than investing in this?!

It's Cow dung.

And yeah, I assisted in a project back in my collage days where you run a Gas turbine power plant from Biogas, usually bio waste products, but cow dung spike the gas output, given cow dung has more methane content in their manure it's up for a good fuel. (I don't know the specifics, coz I was supposed only to be part of electrical side)

But it has a flip side, the gas is generally impure, the project was stonewalled by the dean over some issues with turbines getting corroded faster and the initial cost of cleaning agents.

In here, we use biogas for cooking, and cow dung cakes as a fuel wood for cooking that's how cow became kinda important in India. Given it provides almost everything. In many places biogas plants are installed and is used for cooking, because unlike Pakistan not every state in India have natural gas supply lines the ones that are on are in initial stage.
Anyway, I hope @Dubious would keep them trolls out of this comment. *fingers crossed*

Report if there are issues! I dont live on PDF

 

[@@@]

Have you ever walked past an open sewer in Karachi? How bad does it smell!! I hope we can reduce the amount of poop in the environment of Karachi! Filter out the poop from Lyari river and burn that sh*t into fuel! Plant 100 million trees in Karachi too

 

[El Sidd]

Sounds reasonable! Wonder why none of our depts gave it a thought...Wonder how much kickbacks one can get from importing fossil fuels than investing in this?!

Because our Trash is sold and become treasure for others.

Anything you can Imagine. Its a Mafia business.

 

[koolio]

Great initiative, Karachi already has too much air pollution and waste, Need cleaner and more environmentally friendly vehicles.

 

[R2D2]

https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2019...MATsxqO0N6BBSQoPh_uQhiA4UPF2YG7wHzh5iT1GVZhf0

 

[Big Tank]

Does Human "Tatti" count?

 

[bananarepublic]

Does Human "Tatti" count?

well most of Pakistanis are mindless cattle, so yes it does count

 

[Big Tank]

well most of Pakistanis are mindless cattle, so yes it does count

Well Human poop works too, I just checked.

 

[313ghazi]

Yeah i saw this on twitter. It's good news, buses running on bio-fuel.