EGERTON UNIVERSITY BIOGAS PROJECT
Daraja Kenya paid a visit to Egerton University in Njoro, and were conducted to a tour of the university’s large-scale biogas digester project by Prof. Benedict Mutua, Dean, Faculty of Engineering and Technology. The digester is a huge fixed dome type. The university has enough cows whose manure is enough to produce gas to cater for the cooking needs of the whole university community (students and workers)The project is designed in such a way that it has holding chamber for manure and urine, which is moved to direct feeding chamber. The two flow into a mixing chamber, with the excess flowing out through a drainage pipe. The substrate then flows to the digester which has a gas pipe with a control valve which moves the gas to the kitchen. It is also equipped with an expansion chamber from where slurry flows to the farm, which improves the yield.
Daraja Kenya paid a visit to Egerton University in Njoro, and were conducted to a tour of the university’s large-scale biogas digester project by Prof. Benedict Mutua, Dean, Faculty of Engineering and Technology. The digester is a huge fixed dome type. The university has enough cows whose manure is enough to produce gas to cater for the cooking needs of the whole university community (students and workers)The project is designed in such a way that it has holding chamber for manure and urine, which is moved to direct feeding chamber. The two flow into a mixing chamber, with the excess flowing out through a drainage pipe. The substrate then flows to the digester which has a gas pipe with a control valve which moves the gas to the kitchen. It is also equipped with an expansion chamber from where slurry flows to the farm, which improves the yield.
