Experimental and economical evaluation of a novel biogas digester

Rajendran, Karthik; Aslanzadeh, Solmaz; Johansson, Fredrik; Taherzadeh, Mohammad J.

doi:10.1016/j.enconman.2013.05.020

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“…The subsidies from the government or local authorities could expand the use of household biogas digesters across rural communities reducing the landill of biowaste, thus mitigating the Greenhouse gases and leachate emissions into the environment. Developing a user-friendly technology and making it economically viable will enhance the use of biogas digesters which are a boon to low-income and rural people [25].…”

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confidence: 99%

Introductory Chapter: Rural Waste Management Issues at Global Level

Mihai¹,

Taherzadeh²

2017

Solid Waste Management in Rural Areas

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Introductory Chapter: Rural Waste Management Issues at Global Level

Mihai¹,

Taherzadeh²

2017

Solid Waste Management in Rural Areas

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“…The biogas production mechanism is likely to be a series of reactions in which a product from one reaction step is a material for another [18]. Thus, the presence of methanogens bacteria in the methanogenesis step holds an important role to connect the entire chained reaction pathway.…”

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Socio-Economic Considerations of Converting Food Waste into Biogas on a Household Level in Indonesia: The Case of the City of Bandung

Amir¹,

Hophmayer-Tokich

Kurnani

2015

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Household waste is a serious environmental problem in Indonesia, especially in urban areas. Since 2010, biogas production from food waste has been introduced to reduce waste and provided an alternative to liquid petroleum gas (LPG) as cooking fuel in a pilot project in Bandung. Although the produced biogas is sufficient, the socio-economic aspects can hinder application. This study assesses the socio-economic feasibility of the project in Cibangkong, a typical urban area in Bandung, which includes four bio-digesters. The results show that the conversion of food waste into biogas is currently not economically feasible, mainly due to the low penetration of bio-slurry-a by-product commonly used for fertilizer-into local fertilizer supply-chains. From a social perspective, community acceptance is mainly influenced by procedural justice. Furthermore, while the produced biogas is perceived to be quite useful in substituting LPG, it has not yet been fully utilized due to low bio gas pressure and several technical failures, which in turn influence community acceptance of the digesters. It is thus concluded that introducing biogas production from waste to improve waste management and reduce LPG consumption OPEN ACCESSRecycling 2015, 1 62 can be feasible when efforts to support the market uptake of bio-slurry, enhance biogas utilization, and improve procedural justice performance, are taken.

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“…Several countries in Asia and Africa, including China, India, Nepal, Bangladesh, Cambodia, Vietnam, Kenya, Rwanda and Tanzania, are launching massive campaigns to promote biogas technology [62]. Figure 2 shows three major types of domestic bio digesters commonly used in the developing countries [44,45,52,57,63,[69][70][71][72][73][74], i.e., the plug flow digester, sausage-bag or tubular/plastic digester, the fixed-dome digester or Chinese digester and the floating drum digester, also called telescopic digester or Hindu digester. Even if the gas collection method and design are different, the digestion process is the same.…”

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“…Because it is recognised among the most energy-efficient and environmentally friendly technologies for bioenergy production [51][52][53][54][55], anaerobic digestion of OWHB can mitigate the environmental and human health problems [56] while representing, at the same time, an effective solution for managing such a waste. This is particularly true within developing countries due to the lack of other OWHB collection and treatment systems [43,46,47,[56][57][58][59].…”

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Biogas Micro-Production from Human Organic Waste—A Research Proposal

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Organic waste (OW) management tackles the problem of sanitation and hygiene in developing countries and humanitarian camps where unmanaged waste often causes severe health problems and premature death. OW still has a usable energy content, allowing biogas production, potentially contributing to satisfy the local needs, e.g., cooking, lighting and heating. Digesters are the devices converting OW into biogas under anaerobic conditions. They are simple and effective solutions for the OW management in rural areas, humanitarian camps and remote developing regions, producing energy and fertilizers for local farming as residual. This paper describes the design and lab-test of a domestic OW management system integrating a waterless toilet with a small-scale digester producing safe biogas for local micro-consumption. Starting from people's needs and an extensive review of the current state-of-art technology, the proposed system's key innovation and strength is the combination of effectiveness and a very simple construction, set up and use, fitting with the rural conditions and raw materials available within the emerging countries. A small-scale prototype is assembled and lab-tested assessing the quantity-i.e., productivity-and quality-i.e., composition and methane content-of the produced biogas. The measured productivity in terms of specific biogas production (SBP) is of about 0.15 m 3 /kg SV and a methane content of about 74% in mass match the energy needs of domestic users, encouraging the spread of such systems in developing regions and rural areas.

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Experimental and economical evaluation of a novel biogas digester

Cited by 62 publications

References 20 publications

Introductory Chapter: Rural Waste Management Issues at Global Level

Introductory Chapter: Rural Waste Management Issues at Global Level

Socio-Economic Considerations of Converting Food Waste into Biogas on a Household Level in Indonesia: The Case of the City of Bandung

Biogas Micro-Production from Human Organic Waste—A Research Proposal

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