Biogas Plants - Waste Management, Energy Production and Carbon Footprint Reduction

Biogas Plants
 
Comprehensive resource highlighting the global significance of biogas and reviewing the current status of biogas production.
 
Biogas Plants presents an overview of biogas production, starting from the substrates (characteristics, pretreatment, and storage), addressing technical and technological aspects of fermentation processes, and covering the environmental and agricultural significance of obtained digestate.
 
Written by a team of experts with extensive theoretical and practical experience in the areas of bio-waste, biogas plants, and reduction of greenhouse gas emissions, Biogas Plants discusses keys topics including:
* Anaerobic digestion, including discussion of substrates and products
* Advantages of biogas plants, with emphasis on their future potential for stable and controlled renewable energy
* Global significance of the biogas sector, including its importance in electro-energy system stabilization, biogas plants for energy storage, bio-waste utilization, and biomethane production
 
A thorough and complete resource on the subject, Biogas Plants will appeal to academic researchers and industry scientists and engineers working in the fields of biogas, bio-waste, bioenergy, renewable resources, waste management and carbon reduction, along with process engineers, environmental engineers, biotechnologists, and agricultural scientists.
 
For more information on the Wiley Series in Renewable Resources, visit www.wiley.com/go/rrs

List of contents

List of Contributors xvii
 
Series Preface xxi
 
1 Anaerobic Digestion Process and Biogas Production 1
Liangliang Wei, Weixin Zhao, Likui Feng, Jianju Li, Xinhui Xia, Hang Yu, and Yu Liu
 
1.1 Introduction 1
 
1.2 Basic Knowledges of AD Processes and Operations 2
 
1.2.1 Fundamental Mechanisms and Typical Processes of AD 2
 
1.2.2 Factors Affecting the AD Process of Biogas Production 4
 
1.2.2.1 Temperature 4
 
1.2.2.2 pH 5
 
1.2.2.3 Organic Loading Rate (OLR) 5
 
1.2.2.4 Carbon-Nitrogen Ratio 5
 
1.2.2.5 Inoculum-to-Substrate Ratio (ISR) 6
 
1.2.2.6 Solids Concentration 6
 
1.2.2.7 Hydraulic Retention Time (HRT) 6
 
1.3 Current Challenges of AD Process and Biogas Production 7
 
1.3.1 Ammonia Inhibition 7
 
1.3.2 Volatile Fatty Acid Inhibition 10
 
1.3.3 Psychrophilic Temperature Inhibition 12
 
1.4 Proposed Strategies for Enhanced Biogas Production 14
 
1.4.1 Promoting Direct Interspecies Electron Transfer via Conductive Materials Additive 14
 
1.4.2 Co-digestion of Different Substrates 16
 
1.4.3 Bioaugmentation 19
 
1.4.4 Bioelectrochemical System-Assisted AD 20
 
1.5 Techno-Economic and Environmental Assessment of Anaerobic Digestion for Biogas Production 22
 
1.5.1 Techno-Economic Analysis 22
 
1.5.2 Environmental Feasibility and Benefit Assessment 24
 
References 26
 
2 Pretreatment of Lignocellulosic Materials to Enhance Biogas Recovery 37
Jonathan T. E. Lee, Nalok Dutta, To-Hung Tsui, Ee Y. Lim, Yanjun Dai, and Yen W. Tong
 
2.1 Introduction 37
 
2.1.1 Lignocellulosic Waste Material Production 38
 
2.1.2 Structural Insight of Lignocellulosic Materials 39
 
2.1.3 Biogas Production from Lignocellulosic Materials and the Need for Pretreatment 40
 
2.2 Available Pretreatment Technologies for Lignocellulosic Materials and the Corresponding Biogas Recovery Associated 41
 
2.2.1 Physical Pretreatment 41
 
2.2.1.1 Comminution 43
 
2.2.1.2 Microwave Thermal Pretreatment 43
 
2.2.1.3 Extrusion 44
 
2.2.1.4 Ultrasonication 45
 
2.2.2 Chemical Pretreatment 45
 
2.2.2.1 Acid Hydrolysis Pretreatment 45
 
2.2.2.2 Alkali Hydrolysis Pretreatment 47
 
2.2.2.3 Ionic Liquids Pretreatment 48
 
2.2.2.4 Deep Eutectic Solvents Pretreatment 48
 
2.2.2.5 Organosolvents Pretreatment 49
 
2.2.3 Biological Pretreatment 49
 
2.2.3.1 Enzymatic Pretreatment 50
 
2.2.3.2 Whole-cell Microbial Pretreatment 51
 
2.2.3.3 Fungal Pretreatment 52
 
2.2.3.4 Ensiling 52
 
2.2.3.5 Summary of Individual Pretreatment Efficiencies 53
 
2.2.4 Physiochemical Pretreatment of Lignocellulosic Biomass in the Production of Biogas 54
 
2.2.4.1 Hybrid State of Art Lignocellulosic Pretreatments 54
 
2.3 Pertinent Perspectives 58
 
2.3.1 Integrated Biorefinery While Treating Various Wastes 58
 
2.3.1.1 Municipal Solid Waste (MSW) 58
 
2.3.1.2 Forestry Waste 59
 
2.3.1.3 Crop Straw 59
 
2.3.2 Biogas Production from Lignocellulosic Waste and Its Economic Viability 59
 
2.4 Conclusions 60
 
Acknowledgments 61
 
References 61
 
3 Biogas Technology and the Application for Agricultural and Food Waste Treatment 73
Wei Qiao, Simon M. Wandera, Mengmeng Jiang, Yapeng Song, and Renjie Dong
 
3.1 Development of Biogas Plants 73
 
3.1.1 Agricultural Waste 74
 
3.1.1.1 Livestock and Poultry Manure 74
 
3.1.1.2 Crop Straw 74
 
3.1.2 Municipal Solid Waste 75
 

About the author

Editor
Wojciech Czekäa, Associate Professor, Vice Dean of Science - Faculty of Environmental and Mechanical Engineering, Department of Biosystems Engineering, Poznä University of Life Sciences (PULS), Poland. Series Editor
Christian Stevens, Faculty of Bioscience Engineering, Ghent University, Belgium.

Summary

Biogas Plants

Comprehensive resource highlighting the global significance of biogas and reviewing the current status of biogas production.

Biogas Plants presents an overview of biogas production, starting from the substrates (characteristics, pretreatment, and storage), addressing technical and technological aspects of fermentation processes, and covering the environmental and agricultural significance of obtained digestate.

Written by a team of experts with extensive theoretical and practical experience in the areas of bio-waste, biogas plants, and reduction of greenhouse gas emissions, Biogas Plants discusses keys topics including:
* Anaerobic digestion, including discussion of substrates and products
* Advantages of biogas plants, with emphasis on their future potential for stable and controlled renewable energy
* Global significance of the biogas sector, including its importance in electro-energy system stabilization, biogas plants for energy storage, bio-waste utilization, and biomethane production

A thorough and complete resource on the subject, Biogas Plants will appeal to academic researchers and industry scientists and engineers working in the fields of biogas, bio-waste, bioenergy, renewable resources, waste management and carbon reduction, along with process engineers, environmental engineers, biotechnologists, and agricultural scientists.

For more information on the Wiley Series in Renewable Resources, visit www.wiley.com/go/rrs

Product details

• Authors: W Czekala, Wojciech Czekala, Wojciech (Poznan University of Life Scien Czekala, Wojciech Dach Czekala
• Assisted by: Wojciech Czekala (Editor), Christian V. Stevens (Editor), V Stevens (Editor), Christian V. Stevens (Editor of the series), Stevens Christian V. (Editor of the series)
• Publisher: Wiley, John and Sons Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.05.2023
• EAN: 9781119863786
• ISBN: 978-1-119-86378-6
• No. of pages: 352
• Series: Wiley Series in Renewable Resource; Wiley Series in Renewable Resources
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Chemistry > Miscellaneous; Chemie, Energie, Biogas, Umweltchemie, Biogasanlage, ENERGY, Bioenergie, chemistry, bioenergy, Industrial Chemistry, Environmental Chemistry, Technische u. Industrielle Chemie