Integration of Anaerobic Digestion Technologies within Waste Management
A special issue of Energies (ISSN 1996-1073). This special issue belongs to the section "A4: Bio-Energy".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 October 2021) | Viewed by 4074
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Special Issue Information
Anaerobic digestion is now supposed to meet the energy, fertilization and production challenges of biobased molecules by controlling greenhouse gas and contaminant emissions to reduce environmental and health impacts. Anaerobic digestion is used as a waste valorization method for the production of renewable energy (electricity, heat or combustible gas recovered directly or after purification and injection). A lot of research in engineering and energy sciences is also focusing on the integration of anaerobic digestion in smart grids for energy storage and conservation. The productivities and social advantages of different biogas production units may vary depending on feedstock (water and organic matter contents) and their production scale (industrial, centralized territorial and on-farm anaerobic digestion or microscaled biogas production for domestic energy use). Anaerobic digestion is developed mainly from inputs that do not compete with human or animal food. This results in a great diversity of organic co-products and waste requiring specific adaptations and/or developments concerning both anaerobic digestion processes and pre-treatment adapted to local regulatory constraints. The associated energy and economic gains depend on technologies in a context of inexpensive waste with high methanogenic potential scarce. The aim of this Special Issue is to provide an overview of research advances in technologies, process integration, their contribution to bioeconomy, and feedback from different practice of waste valorization for biogas production.
Dr. Lendormi Thomas
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- biogas production technologies
- biowaste management
- energy assessment
- process integration
- sustainable integrated approach
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