Beschreibung:
This book focuses on biogas production by anaerobic digestion, which is the most popular bioenergy technology of today. Using anaerobic digestion for the production of biogas is a sustainable approach that simultaneously also allows the treatment of organic waste. The energy contained in the substrate is released in the form of biogas, which can be employed as a renewable fuel in diverse industrial sectors.Although biogas generation is considered an established process, it continues to evolve, e.g. by incorporating modifications and improvements to increase its efficiency and its downstream applications. The chapters of this book review the progress made related to feedstock, system configuration and operational conditions. It also addresses microbial pathways utilized, as well as storage, transportation and usage of biogas. This book is an up-to-date resource for scientists and students working on improving biogas production.
This book focuses on biogas production by anaerobic digestion, which is the most popular bioenergy technology of today. Using anaerobic digestion for the production of biogas is a sustainable approach that simultaneously also allows the treatment of organic waste. The energy contained in the substrate is released in the form of biogas, which can be employed as a renewable fuel in diverse industrial sectors.
Although biogas generation is considered an established process, it continues to evolve, e.g. by incorporating modifications and improvements to increase its efficiency and its downstream applications. The chapters of this book review the progress made related to feedstock, system configuration and operational conditions. It also addresses microbial pathways utilized, as well as storage, transportation and usage of biogas.
This book is an up-to-date resource for scientists and students working on improving biogas production.
Part 1: Trends in Biogas Production Technologies.- Chapter 1: Technological routes for biogas production: Current status and future perspectives.- Chapter 2: Prospects and challenges in Biogas Technology: Indian Scenario.- Chapter 3: Anaerobic digestion technology for management of organic wastes: Latin American context.- Chapter 4: Biogas technology for animal manure management in USA: State of art, opportunities, challenges and perspectives.- Chapter 5: Anaerobic digestion in Europe: Key to sustainable waste management, challenges and perspectives.- Chapter 6: Advances and challenges of anaerobic digestion of wastes and wastewaters from different industrial sectors.- Chapter 7: Comparative analysis of biogas with renewable fuels and energy: physio-chemical properties, and carbon footprints.- Part 2: Improving biogas production: Progress, challenges and perspectives.- Chapter 8: Potential feedstock for sustainable biogas production, transportation and supply chain analysis.- Chapter9: Potentials and challenges of micro and macroalgae as feedstock for biogas production.- Chapter 10: The realm of microorganisms in Biogas production: Microbial diversity, functional role, community interactions and monitoring the status of biogas plants.- Chapter 11: Metabolic engineering: A tool to increase the methane yield and efficiency of anaerobic digestion process.- Chapter 12: Scale-up operations for biogas production: Analysis on critical factors governing large scale operations .- Chapter 13: Biogas processing, storage and distribution, transportation and value chain analysis.- Chapter 14: Potentials and challenges of biogas upgradation as liquid biomethane.- Chapter 15: Nutrient value of digestates in soil fertility and productivity.- Part 3: Economics of Biogas Technology.- Chapter 16: Biogas commercialization: Commercial players, key business drivers, potential market and fostering investment.- Chapter 17: Biogas in circular bio-economy: Sustainable practice for rural farm waste management & techno-economic analyses.- Chapter 18: Biogas technology in Africa: An assessment of feedstock, barriers, socio-economic impact and the way forward.- Chapter 19: Governmental policies to promote biogas production, boosting role of biogas in economic growth of developing nations.
