Biogas was first introduced to heat bath water in Assyria during the 10th century BC. Scientists in the 17th century than pursued the study and experimentation of biogas. Jan Baptita Van Helmont discovered flammable gasses could evolve from decaying matter. In 1776 Count Alessandro Volta that there was a connection between the amount of decaying matter and flammable gasses. In 1840 the first digester, a machine operating under biogas power, was made in Otago, New Zealand. Shortly after in 1859 Bombay, India made a digester plant. Soon more digester plants started spouting up and thus began the opiton of biogas as a fuel source. How Biogas Is Made Biogas consists of two-thirds methane (CH4), one-third carbon dioxide (CO2), a little hydrogen sulphide (H2S), and a little hydrogen (H2). To create the actual biogas that is used one must allow the decomposition of manure, animal waste, and other forms of organic waste from industry or house holds in anaerobic, oxygen free, tanks where they than heat it up.
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