Biomass Waste as a Renewable Source of Biogas Production

A special issue of Fermentation (ISSN 2311-5637). This special issue belongs to the section "Industrial Fermentation".

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Department of Advanced Energy Engineering, Chosun University, Gwangju 61457, Republic of Korea
Interests: bioenergy; anaerobic digestion; bioelectrochemical system; wastewater treatment
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Department of Civil Engineering, Inha University, Incheon 22201, Republic of Korea
Interests: anaerobic digestion; bioenergy; organic waste; bioelectrochemical system

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

We invite submissions to a Special Issue of Fermentation journal on the topic "Biomass Waste as a Renewable Source of Biogas Production". The Special Issue addresses challenges and opportunities for using both biomass and waste to enhance biogas quantity and quality.

Carbon-neutral-based energy consumption is an essential for maintaining a sustainable and eco-friendly social infrasystem. Renewable energy is gaining attention as part of alternative energy sources to achieve successful carbon neutrality. Of particular significance, biogas produced from biomass and waste is the most future-oriented renewable energy source. Based on this necessity, the development of biomass and waste to biogas technologies should be further accelerated for a successful access to make biogas valuable.

This Special Issue aims to collect articles that will contribute to an enhancement of biogas production from biomass or waste and provide a proper direction that biogasification technique will have to approach. The topics of interest allow, but are not limited to:

  1. The development of biomass and waste usability;
  2. Quantitative and qualitative enhancement of biogas;
  3. Novel anaerobic digestion processes;
  4. Pre- and post-treatments of biomass, organic waste, and digestate;
  5. The recovery of biogas and value-added resource from wastewater;
  6. Metagenomics for anaerobic microorganism;
  7. Applied modeling.

Dr. Jungyu Park
Dr. Seongwon Im
Guest Editors

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Keywords

  • anaerobic digestion
  • bioenergy
  • biochar
  • biomass
  • organic waste
  • novel process
  • operation and maintenance
  • application
  • bio-electrochemical system
  • wastewater
  • digestate
  • biogas upgrading
  • pre-treatment
  • post-treatment
  • machine learning
  • microorganisms
  • resource recovery

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Anaerobic Co-Digestion of Sugarcane Leaves, Cow Dung and Food Waste: Focus on Methane Yield and Synergistic Effects
by Sunqiang Xu, Guican Bi, Xiangmeng Liu, Qiang Yu, Dong Li, Haoran Yuan, Yong Chen and Jun Xie
Fermentation 2022, 8(8), 399; https://doi.org/10.3390/fermentation8080399 - 17 Aug 2022
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Anaerobic co-digestion (AcoD) of food waste (FW) and lignocellulose waste is a promising technology for methane production. This work investigated the methane generation from AcoD of FW, sugarcane leaves (SLs), and cow dung (CD) under mesophilic conditions in a batch test. As for [...] Read more.
Anaerobic co-digestion (AcoD) of food waste (FW) and lignocellulose waste is a promising technology for methane production. This work investigated the methane generation from AcoD of FW, sugarcane leaves (SLs), and cow dung (CD) under mesophilic conditions in a batch test. As for AcoD of two feedstocks (SL and FW or CD and FW), introduction of SL and CD (25%, volatile solid (VS) basis) showed slight improvement in methane production from FW. In contrast, positive synergistic effect (synergy index = 1.03–1.14 > 1) was observed in all the AcoD reactors of the three feedstocks (SL, CD, and FW). The optimum mixing ratio of FW:SL:CD (VS basis) was 85:11.25:3.75 with a synergy index of 1.07, achieving a methane yield rate and methane content of 297.16 mL/g VS and 73.26%, respectively. This group cumulative methane production was an improvement of 110.45 and 444.72% higher than mono-digestion of SL and CD. The biodegradability, soluble chemical oxygen demand (SCOD), and VS removal rate were 56.44, 44.55 and 55.38%, respectively. The optimum results indicated that AcoD of FW, SL, and CD have higher potentials for energy recovery and provided forceful scientific evidence for their energy utilization. Full article
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Low-Temperature Pretreatment of Biomass for Enhancing Biogas Production: A Review
by Ming Wang, Jianlin Wang, Yunting Li, Qichen Li, Pengfei Li, Lina Luo, Feng Zhen, Guoxiang Zheng and Yong Sun
Fermentation 2022, 8(10), 562; https://doi.org/10.3390/fermentation8100562 - 20 Oct 2022
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Low-temperature pretreatment (LTPT, Temp. < 100 °C or 140 °C) has the advantages of low input, simplicity, and energy saving, which makes engineering easy to use for improving biogas production. However, compared with high-temperature pretreatment (>150 °C) that can destroy recalcitrant polymerized matter [...] Read more.
Low-temperature pretreatment (LTPT, Temp. < 100 °C or 140 °C) has the advantages of low input, simplicity, and energy saving, which makes engineering easy to use for improving biogas production. However, compared with high-temperature pretreatment (>150 °C) that can destroy recalcitrant polymerized matter in biomass, the action mechanism of heat treatment of biomass is unclear. Improving LTPT on biogas yield is often influenced by feedstock type, treatment temperature, exposure time, and fermentation conditions. Such as, even when belonging to the same algal biomass, the response to LTPT varies between species. Therefore, forming a unified method for LTPT to be applied in practice is difficult. This review focuses on the LTPT used in different biomass materials to improve anaerobic digestion performance, including food waste, sludge, animal manure, algae, straw, etc. It also discusses the challenge and cost issues faced during LTPT application according to the energy balance and proposes some proposals for economically promoting the implementation of LTPT. Full article
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