IMPROVING BIOGAS PRODUCTION FROM ORGANIC AND AGRICULTURAL WASTES USING WASTEWATER AND STARTER SLURRY

Wasfy, K. I.

doi:10.21608/mjae.2017.96864

IMPROVING BIOGAS PRODUCTION FROM ORGANIC AND AGRICULTURAL WASTES USING WASTEWATER AND STARTER SLURRY

Document Type : Original Article

Author

K. I. Wasfy

Lecturer of Agric. Eng., Fac. of Agric., Zagazig Univ., Egypt.

10.21608/mjae.2017.96864

Abstract

Anaerobic digestion is a well-known technique for waste management which could have constituted health hazard as well as environmental pollution. To enhance the biogas production, Starter Digestate (SD) by 5% of digester volume (T₂) and Agricultural Wastewater (AW) with SD (T3) were performed on raw materials of: Cattle Dung (CD), Poultry Droppings (PD), Sugar beet Leaves (SL) and Water Hyacinth (WH) compared with blank test (T₁) (Tap water) under different fermentation mixtures in order to study their effects on biogas and methane production, total nitrogen and pH.
Results indicated that using agricultural wastewater and starter digestate 5% (T₃) acheived the highest biogas production, methane percentage and total nitrogen comparing with the other treatments. With respect to fermentation mixtures, mixture of 50% SL + 50% WH (B) gave the highest methane percentage (77%), while mixture of 50% PD + 25 % SL + 25% WH (D) produced high concentration of N (5.3%) as a rich fertilizer with an average biogas production (778 mL/day) through fermentation period of 24 days.

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Biosystems Engineering

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