Blog #8, September 4 2009

Work on the ceiling and roof of the digester tank has been under way for the past few days and progress is showing. The tank has also been wrapped with the bentafix liner, and is now being wrapped with insulation. The liner is to keep a seal around the perimeter of the tank to ensure that there is no water getting in or digestate getting out during operation.

The holding tank went up in a flash. The concrete trucks came in quick one after the other yesterday and filled the forms up. Today, the forms have already been taken off and the tank has been marked “CRONIN 2009″.

Cleaning up in the Genset room of C Barn is almost complete. All concrete, wood and insulation debris has been swept up.

Here’s another video of a Biogas plant that uses plant matter from a herb farm.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rYntOAAQZZ4&feature=related

And to give an inside look at the building of a biogas plant, I found this video.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mCebM7a5XBQ&feature=related