Our digester technology has been used to build large scale digesters and plants in Germany, Peru and Canada. The largest so far has been six thousand cubic meters with an associated gasa buffer capable of holding up to 12,000 cubic meters.
We have been looking at how to make our HDHR reactor/digester smaller in order to accommodate a household, a homestead or a small farm.
Thanks to computer modelling we have now developed a small HDHR system roughly the size of an average septic tank in the order of 800 to 1000 gallons. While the organics contained in just the blackwater produced by a normal household of two to four people may not be enough to warrant the addition of a small scale digester system for energy production, once you add in food scraps, old cooking oils and spoiled foods, the numbers for energy production become interesting. Interesting enough to add a microcogen and not only supply oneself with electricity, hot water and heat in the winter but even be able to produce surplus electricity that can be fed back into and sold to the grid.
As a homestead or small farm with some livestock you can put the surplus energy to work in other areas.
We are now at the stage where we are actively looking for partners to build the first prototype with the size of approximately 800 gallons or 3000 liters for those who think in metric.
Write us to postmaster[at]terra.ngo if you are interested in finding out more or are interested in participating.
