Journal article
Field performance of small scale anaerobic digesters treating food waste
Energy for Sustainable Development, Vol.16(4), pp.509-514
2012
Abstract
Internationally, it has been reported to have over 30 million small scale anaerobic digesters. Despite the large number of existing small scale anaerobic digesters and a growing interest in food waste digestion, there has been a paucity of research regarding low cost digester's performance. This paper aims to provide a snap shot of the performances of small scale digesters treating food waste exclusively. The performance of six small scale digesters, ranging from 1m 3 to 25m 3 were recorded and analysed. Results showed consistently high substrate degradation ranging from 92.5% to 97.5% COD with daily methane production ranging between 0.25m 3/kg VS and 0.46m 3/kg VS. Composition of biogas analyzed yielded between 63.1%-66.8% CH 4 and between 27.4%-33.3% CO 2. Results also revealed a negative linear correlation between gas production and % total solids and a positive linear correlation between gas production and the organic loading rate. While small scale digesters can effectively degrade food waste; the total dependency on digester for their gas requirements is unlikely and alternative fuel source is required.
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- Title
- Field performance of small scale anaerobic digesters treating food waste
- Authors/Creators
- X.F. Lou (Author/Creator) - Murdoch UniversityJ. Nair (Author/Creator) - Murdoch UniversityG. Ho (Author/Creator) - Murdoch University
- Publication Details
- Energy for Sustainable Development, Vol.16(4), pp.509-514
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Identifiers
- 991005542849507891
- Murdoch Affiliation
- School of Environmental Science
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Journal article
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- 3 Agriculture, Environment & Ecology
- 3.83 Bioengineering
- 3.83.416 Anaerobic Digestion
- Web Of Science research areas
- Energy & Fuels
- Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
- ESI research areas
- Engineering