A multi-criteria ranking of different technologies for the anaerobic digestion for energy recovery of the organic fraction of municipal solid wastes

Karagiannidis, A.; Perkoulidis, G.

doi:10.1016/j.biortech.2008.11.033

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“…There are two types of fermentation, wet (10-25% dry matter), which is the most commonly used technique, and dry (30-40% dry matter) [36], which is an emerging process [34]. AD can be either single-stage (all reactions take place in one chamber) or multiple stage (reactions take place separately) [37].…”

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confidence: 99%

Bioconversion of Egypt's Agricultural Wastes into Biogas and Compost

Elfeki¹,

El-Bestawy²,

Tkadlec³

2017

Pol. J. Environ. Stud.

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Section: Ad Processmentioning

confidence: 99%

Bioconversion of Egypt's Agricultural Wastes into Biogas and Compost

Elfeki¹,

El-Bestawy²,

Tkadlec³

2017

Pol. J. Environ. Stud.

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“…Karagiannidis and Perkoulidis (2009) evaluated five different anaerobic digestion technologies in the terms of energy yield, material recovery, operating cost and CO 2 emissions and found that DRANCO ranked the best position due to low cost and high energy recovery. The DRANCO was followed by WASSA, VALORGA, KOMPOGAS, and BTA.…”

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Research advances in dry anaerobic digestion process of solid organic wastes

Jha¹,

Li²,

Nies³

et al. 2011

Afr. J. Biotechnol.

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The dry anaerobic digestion process is an innovative waste-recycling method to treat high-solidcontent bio-wastes. This can be done without dilution with water by microbial consortia in an oxygenfree environment to recover potential renewable energy and nutrient-rich fertilizer for sustainable solid waste management. It generally takes place at solid concentrations higher than 10% and enables a higher volumetric organic loading rate, minimal material handling, lower energy requirements for heating, limited environmental consequences and energetically effective performance. The long retention time, poor startup performance, incomplete mixing and the accumulation of volatile fatty acids (VFAs) are considered as the main disadvantages for the solid-state fermentation process. In order to develop feasible dry anaerobic digestion processes, it is important to review the optimization techniques and suggest possible areas where improvements could be made. These include reactor configuration, mixing, solid retention time, feedstocks, organic loading rate, inoculation, co-digestion, pretreatment, percolation, additives and environmental conditions within the digester such as temperature, pH, buffering capacity and VFAs concentration.

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“…With greater emphasis on strategies for diverting biowastes from landfill, and their sustainable re-utilisation through valorisation, the volume of digested materials is expected to increase significantly. At the same time, promotion of digestate as biofertiliser has grown over recent years, mainly for two reasons -one, as a low carbon substitute to fossil fertilisers as farmers and land managers are being encouraged to reduce product carbon footprint from their harvest [61,62]; two, for restoring soil organic matter and for closed-loop nutrient recycling [56,63,64]. In the UK, the quantity of digestate recycled to land is expected to increase to around 5M tonnes (fresh-weight) by 2020 [65].…”

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“…Multi Criteria Decision Analysis have been adopted for feasibility assessment of urban AD operations, integrating the technical, environmental, financial, socio-cultural, institutional, policy and legal framework for developing countries [64,131]. Based on similar principles, a multi-criteria decision support (MCDS) tool has been developed to select the optimal type, scale and locations of AD plants by examining feedstock mix combinations, technologies and use of the digestate based on scenarios related to economic and environmental issues, including GHG saving, air quality and water quality [72].…”

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Emerging perspectives on environmental burden minimisation initiatives from anaerobic digestion technologies for community scale biomass valorisation

Tiwary

Williams

Pant

et al. 2015

Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews

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This paper provides an extensive review of anaerobic digestion (AD) systems, with a specific focus on community scale digesters for urban applications, processing either municipal organic waste exclusively or as mix feed. Emphasis is placed on reducing the systems scale environmental impact of AD technologies, including pre-and post-treatment stages, alongside biogas production. Developments to-date in AD system research in Europe and in the Asia region have been compared, providing a comprehensive evaluation of current practice, elucidating the areas of further potentials.The scope of this review is two-fold -one, covering AD technologies including a cohort of simple and integrated wet and dry systems, which can be operated as continuous flow designs in single-or multi-stages. Two, focusing more on practices in digestate handling that minimise environmental impacts arising from their storage and land application. From an environmental perspective, we note the following trends emerging in the literature for processing urban waste that need further exploitation: dry AD (60-85% moisture) is suitable for low organic loads, mainly owing to resource savings in terms of water usage; co-digestion has shown better buffering capability, especially for two-stage digestion of food-based feed stocks; separating the digestate into liquid/solid fractions is effective for handling postdigestion emissions, mainly for mitigating ammonia volatilisation to air and phosphate leaching to soil.We report responses to a survey, conducted for this review, highlighting the contemporary issues and challenges -with particular focus on the operational, social and management issues from an Indian perspective. There is need for follow-up of running plants to ensure their environmental performance. Such initiatives will have to consider managing of pollution footprints from AD, alongside the current drive for its widespread implementation for two incentives: greenhouse gas mitigation and fossil-fuel independence.

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A multi-criteria ranking of different technologies for the anaerobic digestion for energy recovery of the organic fraction of municipal solid wastes

Cited by 148 publications

References 22 publications

Bioconversion of Egypt's Agricultural Wastes into Biogas and Compost

Bioconversion of Egypt's Agricultural Wastes into Biogas and Compost

Research advances in dry anaerobic digestion process of solid organic wastes

Emerging perspectives on environmental burden minimisation initiatives from anaerobic digestion technologies for community scale biomass valorisation

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