Words from the finalist…
Christopher Kellner has worked during the last 40 years mainly in Africa on different posts engaged in the dissemination of alternative forms of renewable energy and sanitation. The special interest and experience are on biogas technology. He contributed to the development of the CAMARTEC Biogas Unit Design in Tanzania and has adapted and fine-tuned the technology to the African context in Ethiopia, Lesotho, Zambia and Tanzania.
Recent Project Examples
• Biogas from placentas for hospitals (4 implemented)
• DEWATS (Decentralized Wastewater Treatment Systems) for low cost and peri urban areas and Institutions
• Fecal sludge management in peri urban areas
• Biogas for slaughterhouses, schools, and hospitals
• Water hyacinth to biogas on commercial scale
• Demand oriented biogas technology for any soft organic waste (4 – 800 m3 digester volume) from household size to large scale piggeries
• Biogas Program Monitoring System for Bangladesh
• Domestic Biogas Training course for Afghanistan and Kurdistan
• Biogas curriculum Development for BORDA (Bremen Overseas Development Association)
• Fecal Sludge management for medium size towns in Bangladesh
• Training of Trainers on Biogas in Bangladesh
• New Biogas Plant designs standards for Bangladesh and Cambodia
• Karagwe Biogas Training for biogas plants operating on banana stem waste
• School Sanitation with Biogas, Zimbabwe, Zambia, and Uganda