Mexico is rich in cacti, including Prickly pear cactus whole body is treasure, its juice, fruit, stems and leaves edible or made of medicines and beauty products, now a local green energy company developed a biogas power generation equipment, cactus can be used to generate electricity The device mixes organic waste with a special mixture of bacteria and then heats them to 55 degrees Celsius to produce biogas and generate electricity from biogas.
The plant, which began trial in May in a cactus market in southern Mexico, produces 200,000 tons of prickly pear cactus annually, leaving the cacti at the market and leaving as much as 10 tons of waste untreated daily The waste is now used as raw material for power generation equipment, which is expected to reach maximum capacity by around November and can process 3 to 5 tons of waste per day to produce 170 cubic meters of biogas with a maximum capacity of 175 kWh, Enough to light about 960 energy-saving lamps.
The pilot project cost 840,000 US dollars (about 5.6 million yuan), the funds mainly from the Mexican city government.And the city government science and technology development director Rosas said: 'Our vision is to promote the scheme to the city More than 300 agricultural markets bring them energy self-sufficiency. '
