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Agricultural biomass production is an energy option for the future

Sonnino, A. - In: Renewable Energy 5 (1994) 5, pp. 857-865

The production of agricultural biomass and its exploitation for energy purposes can contribute to alleviate several … use of fossil fuels, the abandonment of land by farmers and the connected urbanization. Biomass is not at the moment … long term perspective, technological innovation can improve the cost effectiveness of biomass production. For this purpose …

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A review of simple to scientific models for anaerobic digestion

Kythreotou, Nicoletta; Florides, Georgios; Tassou, Savvas A. - In: Renewable Energy 71 (2014) C, pp. 701-714

To fully model the anaerobic digestion process, biological and physico-chemical background, the kinetics of bacterial growth, substrate degradation and product formation have to be taken into account. The presented approaches differ depending on the requirements and the developer of the model....

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Thermophilic anaerobic digestion of pasteurised food wastes and dairy cattle manure in batch and large volume laboratory digesters: Focussing on mixing ratios

Zarkadas, Ioannis S.; Sofikiti, Artemis S.; Voudrias, … - In: Renewable Energy 80 (2015) C, pp. 432-440

The potential of pasteurised food wastes in mixtures with cattle manure as feedstock for anaerobic digesters was assessed in batch and high volume laboratory digesters under thermophilic conditions. While food wastes is an attractive substrate for anaerobic digestion plants, their...

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Anaerobic batch digestion of solid potato waste alone and in combination with sugar beet leaves

Parawira, W; Murto, M; Zvauya, R; Mattiasson, B - In: Renewable Energy 29 (2004) 11, pp. 1811-1823

The objective of this study was to characterise anaerobic batch biodegradation of potato waste alone and when co-digested with sugar beet leaves. The effects of increasing concentration of potato waste expressed as percentage of total solids (TS) and the initial inoculum-to-substrate ratio (ISR)...

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Modeling and optimization of biogas production on saw dust and other co-substrates using Artificial Neural network and Genetic Algorithm

Gueguim Kana, E.B.; Oloke, J.K.; Lateef, A.; Adesiyan, M.O. - In: Renewable Energy 46 (2012) C, pp. 276-281

The joint challenge of global pollution and depletion of fossil fuels is driving intense search into alternative renewable sources. This paper reports the modeling and optimization of biogas production on mixed substrates of saw dust, cow dung, banana stem, rice bran and paper waste using...

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Heat and energy requirements in thermophilic anaerobic sludge digestion

Zupančič, G.D.; Roš, M. - In: Renewable Energy 28 (2003) 14, pp. 2255-2267

The heating requirements of the thermophilic anaerobic digestion process were studied. Biogas production was studied in laboratory experiments at retention times from 1 to 10 days. The data gathered in the experiments was then used to perform a heat and energy analysis. The source of heat was a...

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Optimization of biogas production from waste activated sludge through serial digestion

Athanasoulia, E.; Melidis, P.; Aivasidis, A. - In: Renewable Energy 47 (2012) C, pp. 147-151

The treatment and disposal of excess sludge represents a problem of growing importance of wastewater treatment plants all over the world. Anaerobic digestion is the most common method for sludge stabilization resulting in biogas production at the same time. In the present study, in pilot-scale...

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Pilot-scale anaerobic co-digestion of municipal biomass waste: Focusing on biogas production and GHG reduction

Liu, Xiao; Gao, Xingbao; Wang, Wei; Zheng, Lei; Zhou, … - In: Renewable Energy 44 (2012) C, pp. 463-468

digestion (AD) as an effective disposal method for municipal biomass waste (MBW) in China, focusing on biogas production and …

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Evaluation of biogas production from different biomass wastes with/without hydrothermal pretreatment

Qiao, Wei; Yan, Xiuyi; Ye, Junhui; Sun, Yifei; Wang, Wei; … - In: Renewable Energy 36 (2011) 12, pp. 3313-3318

Municipal biomass waste is regarded as new available energy source, although it could cause serious environmental … pollution. Generally, biogas recovery by anaerobic digestion was seen as an ideal way to treat biomass waste. Different types of … biomass waste have different biogas production potential. In this paper, cow manure, pig manure, municipal sewage sludge …

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Biogas production from rice husks generated from various rice mills in Ebonyi State, Nigeria

Okeh, Okeh C.; Onwosi, Chukwudi O.; Odibo, Frederick John C. - In: Renewable Energy 62 (2014) C, pp. 204-208

In the present study, laboratory scale biogas production from rice husks (RH) generated from different rice mills was investigated using cow rumen fluid as a source of inoculum. The effects of various parameters such as water dilution, initial pH, heavy metals and nitrogen sources on digester...

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