Plug Flow Digestors for Biogas Generation from Leaf Biomass

Jagadish, KS and Chanakya, HN and Rajabapaiah, P and Anand, V (1998) Plug Flow Digestors for Biogas Generation from Leaf Biomass. In: Biomass and Bioenergy, 14 (5-6). pp. 415-423.

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Abstract

The low, family level availability of animal dung in rural Indian families restricts the spread of biogas technology. This has warranted the design and development of novel biogas plants for other biomass feedstocks. The plug-flow digestors discussed in this paper circumvent the problems associated with floating of biomass feedstocks and enable a semi-continuous operation. The long term operation of such biogas plants using a mixed green leaf biomass feedstock is reported along with its design features. Results show that during long term operation, such biogas plants have the ability to produce up to $0.5 \hspace{2mm} m^3\hspace{2mm} gas/m^3$ reactor/day (ambient conditions) at specific conversion rates ranging between 180 and 360 1 biogas/kg TS (total solids) at a 35 day retention time.

Item Type:	Journal Article
Publication:	Biomass and Bioenergy
Publisher:	Elsevier
Additional Information:	Copyright of this article belongs to Elsevier.
Keywords:	Plugflow;Leaf biomass;Mixed feedstock;Continuous biogas plant
Department/Centre:	Division of Mechanical Sciences > Centre for Sustainable Technologies (formerly ASTRA)
Date Deposited:	24 Oct 2007
Last Modified:	19 Sep 2010 04:40
URI:	http://eprints.iisc.ac.in/id/eprint/12241

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