Re: [Amc-list] Tom J. Any comments on this?

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One show I want to catch is about a farm somewhere that burns the gases off the manure, uses it to dry pots made out of the same manure then sells the pots! They also use the gas to run a genset for the elctricity. 
   I never thought about the corrosive possibilties with biogas. How would a small time outfit treat for it? 
   I think we are wandering way OT here though!

--
Mark Price
Morgantown, WV
1969 AMC Rambler, 4.0L, EFI, T-5

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From: JOE FULTON <piper_pa20@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Mike,
> 
> One nit:
> 
> Pure methane is not corrosive.  It's just one carbon
> atom surrounded by four hydrogen atoms.  It's the
> other components of "biogas" that are corrosive
> including the sulfur compounds and traces of things
> like chlorine in landfill gas.  It'll definitely do a
> number on ferrous metal turbine blades and engine
> parts.
> 
> Pretreatment of biogas is necessary to reduce the
> moisture compound and get out some of those bad
> things.
> Thousands of Kilowatt-hours of electric power are
> being generated by waste landfill gas in this country
> today, with both internal combustion engines and gas
> turbines.
> 
> You still have your old copies of Mother Earth News? 
> Somehow my old issues got away from me in the
> eighties.  Don't know what happened to my Mother Earth
> Catalog either.
> 
> Regards,
> Joe Fulton
> Salinas,CA
> --- mikebailey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> 
> > I've been looking back through old issues of Mother
> > Earth News, following
> > their experiments on methane production and uses, in
> > the 70's and 80's. 
> > One of the main concerns with methane gas is that it
> > is corrosive.
> > 
> 
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