Biogas

Description

This book presents the state of the art in biogas production using anaerobic digestion technology, with an emphasis on waste utilization/valorization. Offering a comprehensive reference guide to biogas production from different waste streams, it covers various aspects of anaerobic digestion technology from the basics, i.e., microbiological aspects to prominent parameters governing biogas production systems, as well as major principles of their operation, analysis, process control, and troubleshooting. Written and edited by internationally recognized experts in the field of biogas production from both academia and industry, it provides in-depth and cutting-edge information on central developments in the field. In addition, it discusses and reviews major issues affecting biogas production, including the type of feedstock, pretreatment techniques, production systems, design and fabrication of biogas plants, as well as biogas purification and upgrading technologies. ‘Biogas: Fundamentals, Process, and Operation’ also addresses the application of advanced environmental and energy evaluation tools including life cycle assessment (LCA), exergy, techno-economics, and modeling techniques. This book is intended for all researchers, practitioners and students who are interested in the current trends and future prospects of biogas production technologies. Front Matter ....Pages i-viii Waste Management Strategies; the State of the Art (Alireza Ghasemi Ghodrat, Meisam Tabatabaei, Mortaza Aghbashlo, Solange I. Mussatto)....Pages 1-33 Feedstocks for Biogas Production: Biogas and Electricity Generation Potentials (Johannes W. A. Langeveld, Eric C. Peterson)....Pages 35-49 Biogas Plants: Design and Fabrication (Luca Talia)....Pages 51-93 Biogas Production Systems (Elena Valijanian, Meisam Tabatabaei, Mortaza Aghbashlo, Alawi Sulaiman, Yusuf Chisti)....Pages 95-116 Biogas Production: Mechanical and Thermal Pre-treatment Technologies (Ing. Dieter Jürgen Korz)....Pages 117-133 Prominent Parameters in Biogas Production Systems (Meisam Tabatabaei, Elena Valijanian, Mortaza Aghbashlo, Hossein Ghanavati, Alawi Sulaiman, Minato Wakisaka)....Pages 135-161 Biogas Production: Microbiological Aspects (Gerianne Robles, Ramkumar B. Nair, Sabine Kleinsteuber, Marcell Nikolausz, Ilona Sárvári Horváth)....Pages 163-198 Biogas Production Systems: Operation, Process Control, and Troubleshooting (Hossein Ghanavati)....Pages 199-219 Analytical Methods in Biogas Production (Peyman Mahmoodi, Sara Farmanbordar, Keikhosro Karimi)....Pages 221-238 Biogas Purification and Upgrading Technologies (María Rosario Rodero, Roxana Ángeles, David Marín, Israel Díaz, Alexandre Colzi, Esther Posadas et al.)....Pages 239-276 Biorefineries: Focusing on a Closed Cycle Approach with Biogas as the Final Step (Benyamin Khoshnevisan, Irini Angelidaki)....Pages 277-303 Waste Management Strategies: Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) Approach (Benyamin Khoshnevisan, Shahin Rafiee, Meisam Tabatabaei)....Pages 305-331 Techno-Economic Aspects of Biogas Plants (Marzieh Shafiei)....Pages 333-353 Exergy-Based Performance Assessment of Biogas Plants: Application of Advanced Exergy and Exergoeconomic Analyses for Evaluating Biogas Upgrading Process (Hojat Ansarinasab, Mehdi Mehrpooya)....Pages 355-386 Advanced Soft Computing Techniques in Biogas Production Technology (Fatemeh Almasi, Salman Soltanian, Soleiman Hosseinpour, Mortaza Aghbashlo, Meisam Tabatabaei)....Pages 387-417 New “Omics” Technologies and Biogas Production (Gholamreza Salehi Jouzani, Reza Sharafi)....Pages 419-436 Small Scale Biogas Production (Ram Chandra Poudel)....Pages 437-448 Current State and Future Prospects of Global Biogas Industry (Karan Sehgal)....Pages 449-472