Solid Anaerobic Digestion for Fuel Production
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 2019) | Viewed by 3871
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Interests: anaerobic digestion; biogas; wastewater treatment; lignocellulosic biomass; bioprocess engineering; biochemistry; biotechnology; environment; soil
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Dear Colleagues,
Anaerobic digestion (AD) is a natural process carried out by anaerobic microorganisms, which offers many advantages in regard to the production of renewable energy. Anaerobic digestion produces methane, which is a greenhouse gas that can also be captured and used for fuel production; therefore, it is a key measure for decreasing greenhouse gases. AD processes have been classified into wet AD process and solid AD process, also called dry anaerobic digestion. The latter is the most appropriate process for the degradation of by-products with high total solid (TS > 15 % w/w) content, especially lignocellulosic materials like agricultural waste (straw, manure), household waste, and food waste. Solid AD is already widely used in wastewater treatment plants for treating plants for sewage sludge but could be more developed for lignocellulosic materials with high TS content. Despite the existence of full scale industrial solid AD reactors, many research works are still carried out on solid AD, focused on current limitations (BMP, codigestion, inhibition, microbial populations, rheology, water transfers, size, type and origin of inoculum, etc.) in order to optimize the solid AD process.
This Special Issue aims at encouraging researchers to find solutions to overcome these limitations.
Prof. André Pauss
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- water transfer
- rheology
- solid AD
- mixing
- anaerobic microbial behavior
- continuous solid AD processes
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