Video: Construction of bio-digester from Polythene
Sunday, 20 October 2013
Video: Construction of bio-digester from Polythene
Biogas Kills Farm worker in Belchalwell
Biogas fumes Kills Farm worker Matthew Pitt
BBC Report: A worker died after
being overcome by fumes while trying to fix an anaerobic bio-digester on a
Dorset farm
29 year old Matthew Pitt, was
working on the huge tank full of slurry and farming waste at Lowbrook Farm in
Belchalwell in June 2009 when it happened.
He and fellow worker David Bartlett
passed out after opening the seal on the bio-digester roof to fix a blockage.
Mr Bartlett came to and ran for
help. Mr Pitt never regained consciousness.
He was given CPR and an air
ambulance took him to hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
'Fit and strong'
Mr Pitt was described as "fit
and strong" and it was a clear summer morning on 24 June when the accident
happened.
Owner Owen Yeatman, who had 420
cattle and 1,200 acres of arable land at the time, had had the German-made
biodigester installed the year before.
It works by burning methane gas from
rotting manure, crops or slurry to produce electricity.
But it also produces hydrogen
sulphide, which smells like rotten eggs and is very poisonous.
The workers were trying to loosen up
a crust that was preventing the biodigester from working properly.
Mr Pitt is thought to have breathed
in the gas even though he was probably wearing a gas mask, the hearing heard.
A German engineer from the firm
Biogas Nord, which built the biodigester, told the hearing it was very unusual
for untrained workers to take on such dangerous tasks.
Kurt Groenke said in Germany, the
work would be carried out by "qualified service personnel, not tractor
drivers".
Mr Pitt, from Sturminster Newton,
had become a father eight months before he died.
A joint investigation by police and
the Health and Safety Executive at the time found there was "insufficient
evidence to support a prosecution for manslaughter or corporate
manslaughter".
The inquest continues.
News source: www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-dorset-24525434
Friday, 18 October 2013
Bio-Digester Experiment for Kids/Teachers
Bio-Digester Experiment for science fair project/Class demonstration.
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Watch Video of BioDigester Construction.
With energy bills on the rise and so much food rotting in landfills, you can make a home-made biodigester to turn waste in to useful gas called biogas, It is a mixture of different gases like , methane, carbon dioxide, nitrogen sulphide water vapors.This video showing the concepts of anaerobic digestion students and teacher can learn for science fair project or class demonstration.
For making of biodigester/methane digester you have to arrange large glass jar or bottle with narrow opining showing in photo, plastic pipe, funnel, some joint(elbow/T) bottle cork and plastic balloon.
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Filmed & Edited by Adam Westbrook
Written by Matt Walters
Filmed & Edited by Adam Westbrook
Written by Matt Walters
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