Design considerations for a farm-scale biogas plant based on pilot-scale anaerobic digesters loaded with rice straw and piggery wastewater

Biomass and Bioenergy

Volumn 46, Issue , 2012, Pages 469-478

  Mussoline, Wendy ^a   Esposito, Giovanni ^a   Lens, Piet ^b   Garuti, Gilberto ^c   Giordano, Andrea ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CASSINO AND SOUTHERN LAZIO   (Italy)

^b UNESCO IHE INSTITUTE FOR WATER EDUCATION   (Netherlands)

^c Acqua and Sole srl   (Italy)

Author keywords

Anaerobic digestion; Biogas; Energy production; Farm scale; Mesophilic; Rice straw

Indexed keywords

BIOGAS PLANTS; BIOGAS PRODUCTION; BUFFERING CAPACITIES; DESIGN CONSIDERATIONS; DESIGN PARAMETERS; ENERGY PRODUCTIONS; ENGINE SIZE; FARM-SCALE; GAS PRODUCTIONS; HEAT INPUT; LEACHATE RECIRCULATION; LOADING FREQUENCIES; MESOPHILIC; MESOPHILIC TEMPERATURE; METHANE YIELD; METHANOGENIC ACTIVITY; NUTRIENT BALANCE; OPTIMUM PERFORMANCE; PH VALUE; PIGGERY WASTEWATER; PILOT SCALE; PILOT-SCALE ANAEROBIC DIGESTERS; REACTOR VOLUME; RICE STRAWS; SPACE REQUIREMENTS;

ACTIVATED SLUDGE PROCESS; ANAEROBIC DIGESTION; BIOGAS; LOADING; MAMMALS; METHANE;

PULP DIGESTERS;

ANOXIC CONDITIONS; BIOENERGY; BIOGAS; GAS PRODUCTION; LEACHATE; OPTIMIZATION; PIG; RICE; STRAW; WASTEWATER;

SUIDAE;

EID: 84868509424     PISSN: 09619534     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biombioe.2012.07.013     Document Type: Article

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