{"id":738,"date":"2013-06-14T18:41:46","date_gmt":"2013-06-14T18:41:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/engineering\/?p=738"},"modified":"2013-06-18T22:08:17","modified_gmt":"2013-06-18T22:08:17","slug":"biogas-cooktop-for-home-use","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/engineering\/2013\/06\/14\/biogas-cooktop-for-home-use\/","title":{"rendered":"Biogas cooktop for home use"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/engineering\/files\/2013\/06\/MIME-30.1-Home-Biogas-Cooktop-6081.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-739\" style=\"margin: 4px\" alt=\"Home Biogas Cooktop\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/engineering\/files\/2013\/06\/MIME-30.1-Home-Biogas-Cooktop-6081.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a>As people increasingly seek sustainable energy solutions, they may come across the product offerings of a small startup company in Eugene, Ore., called HESTIA Home Biogas, makers of anaerobic digesters for home use. When they do, HESTIA wants to be ready with a biogas cooktop.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey want to be able to run off just that raw biogas coming straight out of the digester,\u201d said Lucas Stangel, a graduating senior in the School of Mechanical, Industrial, and Manufacturing Engineering. <!--more-->To help HESTIA achieve its goal, Stangel and team members Riley Tronson and Andrew Duvall designed a biogas cooktop for indoor use as their senior capstone project and displayed a prototype at the 2013 Engineering Expo.<\/p>\n<p>Constructed primarily from off-the-shelf parts with one custom part, the double-burner unit ignites with a piezoelectric starter similar to those used in cigarette lighters and propane barbecues. It\u2019s designed according to ANSI standards and ready for UL testing. As a backup solution, the unit also runs off natural gas after easily switching out a part.<\/p>\n<p>The team says biogas is cheaper than solar and that anybody with enough room for an 8-foot by 6-foot bio digester can use their product. \u201cYou get gas, you cook, make food scraps, put it back in the digester, use that fertilizer to grow a garden. Use that garden, grow your food, cook some food,\u201d said Stangel. \u201cIt\u2019s a very interconnected sustainable initiative.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;Marie Oliver<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As people increasingly seek sustainable energy solutions, they may come across the product offerings of a small startup company in Eugene, Ore., called HESTIA Home Biogas, makers of anaerobic digesters for home use. When they do, HESTIA wants to be ready with a biogas cooktop. \u201cThey want to be able to run off just that&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/engineering\/2013\/06\/14\/biogas-cooktop-for-home-use\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1066,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[101480,1],"tags":[101878,101879,101880,1264,872,101770,3163,96377,101773],"class_list":["post-738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-students-3","category-uncategorized","tag-2013-engineering-expo","tag-2013-june-momentum","tag-biogas","tag-college-of-engineering","tag-engineering","tag-engineering-expo","tag-mime","tag-momentum","tag-student-built-projects"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/engineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/738","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/engineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/engineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/engineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1066"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/engineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=738"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/engineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/738\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":823,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/engineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/738\/revisions\/823"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/engineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/engineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/engineering\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}