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5 minutes of garbage to biogas generated electricity in the Zabaleen garbage community of Cairo
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In October of 2009 T.H. Culhane, Mike Rimoin and Hanna Fathy of Solar CITIES converted a 6.5 HP 2 KW engine on Hanna Fathy’s roof in the Zabaleen garbage community to run on biogas. We used the tri-fuel conversion kit from U.S. Carburetion (a simple mount of a venturi adapter to the carburetor that took about 20 minutes to do) and then ran biogas made from kitchen garbage into the supplied regulator. At first we had a very hard time getting ignition — water vapor in the line made sparking impossible. Then we ran regular butagas (bottled propane) into the generator until we got it to run, then reconnected the hose to the biogas digester with about 20 bricks on it for pressure. After many pulls and much gas lost to experimentation, the generator finally sprang to life, and we were able to run it for five minutes until the gas was depleted. With a full tank we should get more than a half an hour. Unfortunately the next time we went to try the generator we broke the pull-start spring from repeated use. Next time we need to get an automatic start generator and create a vapor trap to dry the fuel.
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2 Responses to “5 minutes of garbage to biogas generated electricity in the Zabaleen garbage community of Cairo”
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December 15th, 2009 at 9:59 pm
Let’s see if we can …
Let’s see if we can do that Dunja! We will be in Cairo again in March — we are building digesters in California this month, Germany next month and Alaska in January and February. But when we are back in Egypt we might be able to come up your way and share what we know. Let’s stay in touch!
December 15th, 2009 at 9:59 pm
You are great, …
You are great, people !
I wish you would come to Sinai and teach us there…so much garbage in the desert from Sharm and other resorts.