The University of Michigan’s Better Living Using Engineering Laboratory’s (BLUElab) Biogas Project focuses on the use of anaerobic biodigesters to recover energy from waste. This group is advised by Dr. Steven Skerlos and is a team of undergraduates and graduates from different disciplines that do work on the project as an extracurricular commitment. The group’s [...]
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University of Michigan’s BLUElab heads down to Nicaragua
Posted in Nicaragua, biodigestor, technologies, university partnership on October 29, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Jocelyn Maxine Kluger; Biodigestors and Farming in Bramadero Nicaragua
Posted in Nicaragua, biodigestor, volunteer on July 23, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Jocelyn Maxine Kluger, a current intern with AsoFénix in Nicaragua, through the ESW Summer Engineering Experience in Development (SEED) Volunteer Program, writes about biodigestor installations & farming practices in Bramadero as well as cultural experiences she has encountered while in Nicaragua.
Since begining its involvment with the Bramadero community three years ago, AsoFénix has installed biodigestors behind [...]
Junzi Shi Attends the Biogas Digester Design Exchange in Cajamarca
Posted in Peru, biodigestor, technologies on July 11, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Junzi Shi is a Chemistry and Global Health student at Northwestern University. As a team member of her school’s Engineers for a Sustainable World (ESW) chapter, she traveled to Nicaragua in March of 2009 to install household sized biogas digesters with Green Empowerment, AsoFénix, and families in two rural communities. In May 2009, Junzi traveled [...]

