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Is this how food is cooked every single day in your home?

• you could reduce the drudgery of collecting firewood for cooking?

This could be the setup of your kitchen from now onwards forever.

Want to find out how? Watch this video!

Welcome to the Spoken Tutorial on “Biogas and its benefits”.

Learning Objectives

In this tutorial we will learn-

• About Biogas
• How it is produced and
• Its uses

• About Biogas
• How it is produced and
• Its uses

We will also learn in brief about the Biogas plant

So, What is Biogas?

• Biogas is a gaseous fuel.
• It is a product of fermentation of the remains of bio-degradable organic waste.
• The main component of Biogas is Methane.

• Biogas can be produced easily and for free, by using a Biogas plant

• This is what a family type Biogas plant looks like.

• helps protect natural resources.

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• reduce the drudgery of women, in collecting fuel wood from long distances.

Biogas plants are easy to use and the maintenance is quite simple.

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• Waste generated in the kitchen like-
  • vegetable and fruit peels,
  • leftover food items,
  • eggshells, bones, etc...,

• Domestic wet waste like
  • the water used for cleaning floors,
  • spoilt milk or tea, etc.

• Plant materials like
  • fallen leaves, flowers, stems, etc...

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1. Waste generated on farms,
2. Solid waste of cattle,
3. Liquid waste of cattle and
4. The solid and liquid sewage waste that goes into toilets.

What you see here is-

1. The mixing tank where we put the raw material.
2. The inlet pipe carries this raw material inside the Biogas plant.
3. And this is the digester tank were the Biogas is generated due to fermentation of raw material.
4. It is also called as the Compost tank.
5. Here is the output valve from where the Biogas is ejected out of the plant.
6. There is also an outlet pipe for the slurry.
7. The slurry collects in the slurry tank.
8. And can be taken into the fields to be used as manure.

Typically, to build a family type Biogas plant, we require 12 ft by 8 ft of land.

The minimum cost for building a Biogas plant is from-

• Rs 20,000/- to Rs 23,000/-

• Rs 20,000 to Rs 23,000/-.

This amount may, however, vary from place to place.

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The government gives extra subsidies for tribal areas through-

• Zilla parishad and
• Gram Panchayat

• if the Biogas plant input is connected to the toilet.

Other details

• the cost of building the Biogas plant,
• how to apply for the loan in a bank
• and the subsidy

will be covered in other tutorials in the same series.

• the cost of building the Biogas plant,
• how to apply for the loan in a bank
• and the subsidy

will be covered in other tutorials in the same series.

Biogas is an eco-friendly, non-polluting, renewable source of energy.

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• human and cattle waste management

• agricultural waste management

• as well as kitchen and domestic waste management.

• Decreases soil and water pollution
• And plays a critical role in preventive healthcare.

• we can save a lot of time
• which is otherwise spent in collecting firewood.

• as there is no charcoal deposition on the walls of the cooking area.

• This usually occurs when firewood is used.

• get nutrient-rich natural manure

from the slurry generated by the Biogas plant.

• dried and powdered
• and stored for use later in the fields.

The dried slurry powder can be sold as natural manure to-

1. farmers,
2. fruit orchard owners
3. and nurseries in the big cities.

• Organic fertilizers with the help of Earthworms.

• This is easily done with a technique known as Vermicomposting.

• Using this organic fertilizer in the fields-
• will save a lot of money for the farmers.

• And this organic fertilizer can once again be sold

• and become a source of income for the family.

• heat large quantities of water for bathing
• and other purposes.

• Biogas to supply heat in various processes.

Hello,

• My name is Subhash Balachandra Madgowkar and this is my wife Shubdha.

• There are four members in my family and we also have three cattle

• Earlier we used to go very far to the forest to collect firewood.

• Sometime we also used to purchase firewood.

• Now we have been using Biogas for past 10 years.

• Ever since using Biogas, we don’t have to go to far off places to collect firewood.

• We don’t have to purchase firewood

• We don’t have to inhale smoke while cooking

• And the kitchen looks neat and tidy

Biogas is easy to use and is sufficient for cooking for my entire family.

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Let us summarize.

In this tutorial we learnt

• About Biogas
• How it is produced and
• Its uses

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We also learnt

1. About the Biogas plant
2. Cost of building a Biogas plant and
3. Benefits of using Biogas

In this tutorial we learnt

• About Biogas
• How it is produced and
• Its uses

We also learnt

1. About the Biogas plant
2. Cost of building a Biogas plant and
3. Benefits of using Biogas

Acknowledgement

This video was created by:

Spoken Tutorial project with inputs from Rural-ICT team, IIT Bombay

Spoken tutorial Project with inputs from Rural-ICT team, IIT Bombay.

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Thank you for joining.

Courtesy:

Bhagirath Rural Development Foundation

Village- Zarap, Taluka- Kudal,

Dist.- Sindhudurg