Effective Microorganism Solutions for Methanogenic bacteria (Methanococcus and Sarcina) are available commercially, Pls try them.

Using an effluent source from an already working High rate anerobic reactor  as inoculum serves as a rich source of microbes.

Using a media - PVC fills or any locally available material  enhances the surface area of contact between microbes and wastes enabling more biogas synthesis.

Hello Vijayanand Chinnusamy can you suggest me suppliers for Methanogenic bacteria cocktails?

thanks

Remember that you are essentially trying to create the optimum habitat for methanogenic bacteria.  This means optimum temperature, agitation, ph, C/N mix and a host of other factors.  The best way to speed up the process is to optimize the conditions.  the most cost effective is temperature management, agitation and C/N mix.

Mr. Mirco Garuti ,

I came across it in 2006 while in a conference there was a paper presented on the Use of Effective Microbial solutions for composting and anaerobic digestion.

I just shared about it here. I am not aware of any manufacturers.

Thanks Vijayanand, Mirco and Michael for interesting information, pl. also share if any info about optimum temperature, agitation speed, pH, C/N ratio, and any informative paper on these issues.

Dear Paul

Thanks for sharing all very informative.

While Paul has given the physical Optimus for the digester these are not necessarily the economic optimums and you will need to pay close attention to the cost of reaching these optimums versus the value of the output.