Biogas Planning Guide
This guide to planning is intended to serve agricultural extension officers as a comprehensive
tool for arriving at decisions concerning the suitability of locations for family-sized biogas
plants. The detailed planning outline has a data column for entering the gathered information
and a rating column for noting the results of evaluation.
Evaluation criteria are:
+ Siting condition are favorable
o Siting condition are unfavorable, but
a) compensable by project activities
b) not serious enough to cause ultimate failure
- Siting condition are not satisfactory
Despite its detailed nature, this planning guide is only a framework within which the
extension officer should proceed to conduct a careful investigation and give due
consideration, however subjectively, to the individual conditions in order to arrive at a locally
practical solution. By no means is this planning guide intended to relieve the agricultural
extension officer of the responsibility to thoroughly familiarize himself with the on-the-spot
situation and to judge the overall value of a given location on the basis of the knowledge thus
gained.
Detailed planning guide for biogas plants
0. Initial situation
Addresses/project
characterization
Plant acronym:
Address of
operator/customer:
Place/region/country:
Indigenous proj.
org./executing org.:
Extension officer/advisor:
General user data
Household structure and
number of persons:
User’s economic situation:
Crops: types, areas,
manner of cultivation:
Non-agricultural activity:
Household/farm income:
Cultural and social
characteristics of user:
Problems leading to the
"biogas approach"
Energy-supply bottlenecks:
Workload for prior source of
energy:
Poor soil structure/yields:
Erosion/deforestation:
Poor hygiene and other
factors:
Objectives of the measure
"biogas plant"
User interests:
Project interests:
Other interests:
Data
Rating
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