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Q. Design a biogas plant for a farmer having 20 dairy animals. Assume dung
production per animal in a day is 11Kg, density of slurry is 500 Kg/m3, 1

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that the bulk density of wet cow dung is 1200 kg m3. If equal amount of
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Q.4- A farmer constructed a 2 m3 40 days HRT (hydraulic retention time)

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Deenbandhu model biogas plant. The gas will be solely used for cooking in

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a stove with a burner efficiency of 45%. If the density of biogas is 0.94 kg

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i. Transestrification a. Producer gas

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Q8. A 2 m3 biogas plant is to operated using cow-dung as feedstock. The cow-

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density 1090 kg m-3. The yield of biogas is 0.036 m3 kg-1 of cow-dung. If the
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hydraulic retention time is 40 days, volume of the digester of the biogas plant
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Q9. The amount of biogas required to run a diesel engine is 0.65 m3 kW-1h-1.
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The minimum size of the Deenbandhu model biogas plant in m3 required to

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run a 1 kW (brake power) diesel engine daily for one hour is-
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