Production and Utilization of Methane Biogas as Renewable Fuel

Biomass to Biofuels: Strategies for Global Industries

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 403-433

  Yu, Zhongtang ^a   Morrison, Mark ^a   Schanbacher, Floyd L ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Agricultural residues and energy crops; Completely Mixed Contact Reactor (CMCR) and Sand Bed Filter Reactor; Continuous Stirred Tank Reactor (CSTR); Major phases of entire biomethanation process; Methane (CH4), primary fuel present in natural gas; Methane biogas as fuel; Microbes and metabolisms underpinning biomethanation; Potential feedstocks for methane biogas production; Production and utilization of methane biogas as renewable fuel; Simplified methanogenesis pathway

Indexed keywords

EID: 78651470573     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470750025.ch20     Document Type: Chapter

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