Drum Digester at Shamba Mtopanga, Mombasa, Kenya
Building Up - Phase 1

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The Beginning:
2 oil drums and
space

The Material

The prepared drums;
left: gasholder,
right: mixture holder

"Cooking" tar

Making gasholder airtight

Testing air tightness
with water

Preparing the space
where the drums will
stand

Stand for the mixture
holder

Mixture Holder on the
stand with the bucket
for the removal of the
slurry

Backside of the Mixture
Holder with the valve
of the gas outlet 

Installation of a
platform...

... to facilitate the
handling of the
 digester 

Slurry from an other
digester to start the
process

A bucket of mixture of
cow dung and water is
added daily

The first gas is produced! 

The daily
production

Testing the gas

It burns!

It burns!