• Research , Student
  • 18/02/2014

SUPport improves biogas installations in Nepal

This Friday, twenty-two students and two lecturers of Built Environment will fly to Nepal. In the tiny village of Serachour (for those who know: near Pokhara) they’ll be building five biogas installations. The SUPport Support committee of student association SUPport is organizing this sixteen-day study trip to have their students gain experience in the workfield.

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A Nepalese biogas installation consists of a 4m3 underground sphere that emits gas through a bacterial reaction with animal and human manure that’s added to the sphere. The gas is used for cooking, and it has many advantages over the common wood-burning stove. There’s less erosion because the woods remain, it saves time because there’s no need for gathering wood, and it improves the people’s health because there’s no emission from the burnt wood.

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