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| [[File:BioMeilerConcept.jpg|thumb|Using the heat of an external compost heap for warming up the inside of a house]] | | #redirect [[Jean Pain system]] |
| The '''Jean Pain Composting''' is a method to utilize the usable [[energy]], emerging from a composting process, to warm up a building. In most cases a big heap of chipped wood is created, and a water hose is fed though it, connected to a heating circuit of a building. During the decay process, performed by thermophilic [[microbes]], the temperature in the heap rised up to 70°C. The water circuit conducts the heat energy into the building.
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| [[Jean Pain]], the inventor of the method, combined aerobic decay of the heap with anaerobic decay in a sealed container in the center of the heap, thus producing both heat and [[biogas]] at the same time. The amount of produced biogas was probably too small for everyday cooking.
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| While the idea of using the aerobic process for heating purpose is used in several locations, mostly on demonstration facilities, the combination with biogas has not spread much.
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| == See also ==
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| * [[Compost heater]]
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| == Further Information on the Internet ==
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| * [http://www.journeytoforever.org/biofuel_library/methane_pain.html Jean Pain: France's King of Green Gold], 1981, by Nicolas Poulain
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| * [http://www.comitejeanpain.be Comite Jean Pain], Belgian organisation established to promote the methods of Jean Pain
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| * [http://www.permacultureactivist.net/PeterBane/Jean_Pain.html Another Kind of Energy or ComPost-Modernism], essay by Peter Bane for the ''Permaculture Activist''
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| * [http://www.builditsolar.com/Projects/BioFuel/biofuels.htm#CompostHeat A collection of articles innovating on the method], ''Build It Solar'' (magazine)
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| [[Category:Composting]]
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| [[Category:Agriculture]]
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| [[Category:Sustainable agriculture]]
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