Automated Biogas Grid for Sustainable Development in Rural Area

At present, most of the people in rural areas use biomass such as wood, cow dung, jute sticks or other agricultural wastes for cooking in the clay stoves. Those traditional clay stoves not only inefficient but also poorly ventilated. As a result, they produce fine particles, aromatic hydrocarbons, carbon monoxide, and dioxins that cause air pollution. However, traditional biogas system accomplished in developing countries and some least developed countries (e.g. Bangladesh) are not automated. In this paper, an automated bidirectional business concept is introduced where both buyers and sellers are benefited at the same time in rural areas. In this community business model, people sell biogas from their micro biogas plant through the automated grid. This research is a master-slave wireless system based on Arduino that incorporates with payment system via a mobile application. RF pair along with transmitter and receiver is used in order to get transmitting and receiving biogas quantity and other signals for every user. In addition, an analytic calculation is done for the performance test of the proposed system.