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This comprehensive guide offers readers a practical approach to boosting profitability of their biogas plants. The techniques explained allow for an assessment of a biogas plant throughout its entire life cycle, from critical review of the business plan to the selection of retrofits to recover additional income from the process byproducts.
List of contents
0. Front Matter. 1. Nullius in verba!. 2. The Cartesian approach to maximising profit. 3. Unexpected results from batch lab tests: how to interpret them. 4. Tricks and hacks in the lab. 5. The SMA, a helpful but tricky test. 8. Adding value to the digestion's byproducts. 10. The technical due diligence of biogas projects. End Matter. List of Abbreviations.
About the author
Mario Alejandro Rosato is an electric-electronic and environmental engineer. He is the CEO of Sustainable Technologies srl, an Italian company. A member of the WSJA (World Scientific Journalists Association), he has been in charge of Agronotizie's column on bioenergy since 2014 and has published over 300 articles in other journals. He has been running an anaerobic digestion laboratory in Italy since 2012, providing consultancy services to biogas plant owners and builders, also serving as a technical expert in litigation cases about underperforming biogas plants. Since then, he has provided technical training to hundreds of anaerobic digestion professionals, both in academia and industry, throughout the world. He provides technical training to the WBA (World Biogas Association) associates since 2023. In 2015 he was a member of the technical commission in charge of redacting the Italian norm on the biochemical methane potential (BMP) test protocol, his contribution focused on error propagation analysis and improving accuracy and precision. His first book on anaerobic digestion, Managing Biogas Plants: A Practical Guide, was published by CRC Press in 2017 and has been in Book Authority's list of the best 100 books of Chemical Engineering since 2022.
