Biogas Plant Construction

The biogas plant construction download page is divided into two sections. The Home section has smaller family sized units and the Village section has larger or community sized construction plans.

Home – Biogas Plant Construction

Manure for biogas

2 Designs for Methane Digesters For Fuel Gas and Fertilizer 43.3Mb (168 pages)

3 Cubic Meter Plant 722Kb Construction manual

Build Manual: ARTI Floating Dome Biodigester, July 2009, Appropriate Infrastructure Development Group.

Build an ARTI Biogas System 287Kb How to build the system (see also the construction video)

Basic Small Scale Drum Plan 1.1Mb 2001, Floating drum biogas digester

Bio-digester Information and Construction Manual for Small Farmers, c2010, Guyana Energy Agency, South America.

Biogas Digesters in India 773K

Biogas Digest Volume II, Information and Advisory Service on Appropriate Technology 1.94Mb (80 pages very informative)

Biogas Plants UN-ECDC 18.6Mb 270 pages very informative

Biogas Digester Installation Manual 924Kb Complete instructions to build a plastic tube digester, University of Tropical Agriculture Foundation Finca Ecologica, University of Agriculture and Forestry, Thu Duc, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.

Biogas Digester: What is a biogas digester and how to build it? Module for a decentral autonomous energy supply, 2012, Culhane.T.H., Tamera – Peace Research Center, Monte Cerro.

Biogas Plant Construction Manual, Fixed dome Deenbandhu model digester: 2 to 6 cubic meter biogas generation per day. SKG Sangha, Egypt, 2013. This manual has been designed in such way that it can be used by a lay man, provided an experienced  mason is available to construct a fixed model biogas plant. Step by step description along with figures and photos provides a clear understanding and methods for installation of the unit.

Chinese Biogas Digester  A Potential Model for Small-Scale, Rural Applications: A Manual for Construction and Operation, A joint project of The Philippine Rural Reconstruction Movement, December 1981 2.3Mb

Chinese Biogas Manual Popularising Technology in the Countryside, July 1979, A project of Volunteers in Asia, translated from Chinese by Michael Crook, editied by Ariane van Bruen 12Mb

Compost, Fertilizer and Biogas Production from Human and farm Waste in China 8Mb 1978, International Development Research Center, Ottwa.

Construction Manual for Rural Families 294Kb Written and compiled by Laura Brown, November 2004.FUCOSOH has provided technical and financial support for the construction of 25 bio-digesters in ruralHonduras.

APO Green Productivity :    Review of Biogas Technology Chapter 3; Construction Manual Chapters 4-6; and Operation Manual of Bio-gas Reactor Chapter 7

Fuel Gas From Cow Dung 3rd Edition 1983, B.R. Saubolle and A. Bachmann, A project of Volunteers in Asia, Sahayogi Press, Kathmandu, Nepal 8.8Mb

Home Biogas Construction Photos 356Kb 2002, Biorealis Systems, Inc.

How to Build a Low-Cost Ferrocement Biogas Digester, Jose Carmelo and M Gendrano, Philippine Center for Water and Sanitation.

How To Install a Polyethylene Biogas Plant, 2001, Fransico X. Aguilar, Royal Agricultural College Cirencester,

Kenbim Domestic Biogas Construction Training, August 2009, Kenya National Federation of Agricultural Producers, Manual to train masons in biogas plant construction.

Low Cost Tubular Digester  1995, Plastic Bio-Digesters, developed by CONDRIT, Cali, Colombia1.1Mb (simple yet complete instructions)

Low Cost Plastic Tube 29.9Mb A compedium of low cost solutions for biogas plant construction.

Manual for The Construction and Operation of Small and Medium Size Biogas Systems, October 2012,  FACT Foundation, Bilibiza, Gabo Delgado, Mozambique.

Manual Model Biogas Plant, September 2013, Alternative Energy Promotion Centre National Rural & Renewal Energy Programme, Government of Nepal.

Methane Biogas Production August 2006, mini-methane production and useful notes on designs 497Kb

Nepal Biogas Plant Construction Manual for CGC 2047 Round Model, Domed Biogas Plant 630Kb

Practical Pictorial Field Guide on Grameen Bandhu Biogas Plant, 2nd Revised version 2008, Raymond Miles, New Delhi, India.

Polyethylene Tube Biodigesters Installation and performance of low-cost polyethlene tube biodigesters on small-scale farms, Bui Xuab An, L Rodriguez, S.V. Sarawatt, T.R. Preston and F. Dolberg, Vietnam. 331Kb

Plastic Tube Biodigester Installation Manual Lylian Rodriguez and T.R. Preston, University of Tropical Agriculture Foundation Finca Ecologica, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, 605Kb

Puxin Biogas Plants: Puxin family size and medium size biogas systems, 2010, Biog Ltd, Breivika Industrivei, Ålesund, Norway (large file 49Mb).

Small Homebuilt Digester Construction R.L. Crosby , Biorealis Systems, Inc. 775Kb

Step-by-Step Guide to Constructing a Floating Drum Biogas Digester, 2011, by greenheatug.

Technical Guidelines for Construction of Domestic Fixed Dome Biogas Plants, September 2012, Rwanda Utilities Regulation Agency, Repuclic of Rwanda.

Washiriki’s Guide to Biogas, Part 1 and 2, Teach yourself How to Build and Use a Biogas Unit, 2002, www.washiriki.org.

Village – Biogas Plant Construction

Village Biogas

Biogas Plant Construction Manual, Fixed dome Digester: 4 – 20 Cubic Meters, United States Forces, Afghanistan, Joint Engineer Directorate, Kabul. April 2011.

Biogas For Overseas Volunteers The Oil Drum Digester, E.G. Matthews April 2007, Wimborne Energy Consultancy  123Kb

Biogas Systems in India, A project of Volunteers in Asia, 1983 by Robert Jon Lichtman, Arlignton USA. 11.9Mb

Biogas: GP Option for Community Development Prepared for Asian Productivity Organization, Designs and steps of biogas construction 2.3Mb

Biogas Plants German Appropriate Technology Exchange, 1988, Ludwig Sasse, scaling, design, planning and biogas plant construction. 1.1Mb (detailed)

Biogas Utilization Handbook Environment Health and Safety Division, (no date) Georgia Tech Research Institute, Atlanta, Georgis USA. 3.9mb

Chinese Biogas Digester A Potential Model for Small-Scale, Rural Applications: A Manual for Construction and Operation, A joint project of The Philippine Rural Reconstruction Movement, December 1981 2.3Mb

Chinese Biogas Manual Popularising Technology in the Countryside, July 1979, A project of Volunteers in Asia, translated from Chinese by Michael Crook, editied by Ariane van Bruen 12Mb

End User Biogas Manual, February 2008, Macharia, D. and Musungu, W.N., Prepared by IT Power Eastern Africa.

Improved Biogas Unit for Developing Countries 1991, Ludwig Sasse, Christopher Kellner & Ainea Kimaro, Deutsches Zentrum für Entwicklungstechnologien – GAT 1.1Mb

Institutional Biogas Installer Manual, February 2008, IT Power Eastern Africa, Nairobi-Kenya, funded by Wisions of Sustainability [drawings for 16m3, 48m3, 68m3, 91m3 and 124m3 systems]

Modified GGC Model Biogas Plant for Rwanda 2007, Construction Manual, National Domestic Biogas Programme, Rwanda.

Running a Biogas Programme: Handbook  on the national programmes run in China, India and Nepal 18.2Mb