Biogas production potential from livestock manure in Iran

Noorollahi, Younes; Kheirrouz, Mehdi; Farabi-Asl, Hadi; Yousefi, Hossein; Hajinezhad, Ahmad

doi:10.1016/j.rser.2015.04.190

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“…In Iran, biogas production systems have two variants such as Chinese and Indian (Noorollahi et al, 2015). The Chinese system has a fixed gas tank.…”

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“…Iran, in addition to having different sources of fossil energy, also has various renewable energy resources (Bahrami & Abbaszadeh, 2016). Such resources that have been discussed by researchers include solar energy (Afsharzade et al, 2016), wind energy (Mostafaeipour & Abarghooei, 2008), hydropower energy (Derakhshan & Nourbakhsh, 2008;Ghorashi & Rahimi, 2011), biomass (Afazeli, Jafari, Rafiee, & Nosrati, 2014;Noorollahi, Kheirrouz, Asl, Yousefi, & Hajinezhad, 2015), and geothermal energy (Bahrami & Abbaszadeh, 2013;Noorollahi, Yousefi, Ehara, & Itoi, 2008).…”

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“…According to the statistics procured from the Agricultural Ministry of Iran, the yield of some of the most important products, in terms of megatons per year, in the sphere of greenhouse production include 100.2 of medicinal plants, 1.02 of oyster mushroom, 172.7 of button mushroom. In the area of livestock and poultry, it can be said it has about 487,775 sheep and lambs, 204,076 goats, 8,117,661 cows and calves, 204,384 buffaloes, and around 162,371 camels. Several studies have been conducted in the field of the biomass of livestock including the one conducted by Afazeli et al (2014) and another one by Noorollahi et al (2015). But, the Greenhouse production industry has great potential for biomass production.…”

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Spent mushroom compost (SMC) as a source for biogas production in Iran

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Engineering Applications of Computational Fluid Mechanics

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The first aim of the present study is to investigate the feasibility of the biogas production potential from Spent Mushroom Compost. Hence, its secondary aim is to study the replacement of this energy with the fossil energy source and its impact on the reduction of greenhouse gases emission. The production potential of biogas was evaluated in a laboratory-scale Open Outlet Flow Batch Type Anaerobic digester. Setups of biogas production were set at temperatures of 35°C and 55°C. Results indicate that the cumulative production of biogas at 55°C was more than that at 35°C (364.8 and 314.11 L/kg.VS, respectively). The energy required for 1 ton of spent mushroom compost in one period of production was 204.24-5.35T kW.h/ton. The amount of energy produced in a period of biogas production was calculated to be 277.95 kW.h/ton at 35°C and 322.84 kW.h/ton at 55°C. Results show that the total produced spent mushroom compost of the country is equal to 414,491.7 tons per year. Accordingly, the potential of methane production was calculated to be 8690.8 × 103 m 3 per year. It can also reduce 0.02% of the total annual production of CO 2 in Iran. ARTICLE HISTORY

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“…In Iran, biogas production systems have two variants such as Chinese and Indian (Noorollahi et al, 2015). The Chinese system has a fixed gas tank.…”

Section: Reactor Designing For Biogas Productionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Introductionmentioning

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Spent mushroom compost (SMC) as a source for biogas production in Iran

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“…In addition, Sheikh Bahai, in the early sixteenth century, pioneered the use of biogas for water heating in the city of Isfahan in Iran. The first biogas production digester, with a volume of 5 m 3 , was reportedly built in 1975, in Niazabad village of Lorestan province in Iran, to use livestock waste to heat water and for household uses (Noorollahi, Kheirrouz, Asl, Yousefi, & Hajinezhad, 2015). There are two main types of digester for BPT, i.e.…”

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Limiting factors for biogas production from cow manure: energo-environmental approach

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The main innovation of the study is the use of a novel energo-environmental approach for investigation of biogas production, and analysis of the amount of methane and biogas produced in terms of energy production and global warming potential (GWP). Two types of reactors (laboratory-scale and semi-industrial reactors) were prepared for biogas production to perform a detailed study and for exact consideration of treatments in terms of production. Based on the results, the maximum methane production in the laboratory-scale set-up was related to a carbon/nitrogen (C/N) ratio of 30 at mesophilic temperature (35,967 ml/kg volatile solids). Accordingly, the C/N ratio in the semiindustrial reactor was considered to be 30; methane production was equal to 14/489m3 at loading rates of 237.5, 2.580 and 234.92 kg for cow manure, wheat straw and water content, respectively. The maximum biogas production occurred on day 65, from the viewpoint of energetic analysis. The highest daily net electricity production occurred on day 12, with a positive energy balance. However, considering GWP effects in the production and use of biogas, it would be better to stop production on day 48, in which case methane production would be equal to 77% of the final limit of biogas production. ARTICLE HISTORY

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“…In contrast, using biogas to fuel a combustion engine and in turn an electric generator is a proven means of producing electricity, given the wide availability of suitable generators. For example, in Pura, India a well-studied community biogas digester was used to fuel a modified diesel engine and run an electrical generator [13]. Renewable energy (RE) sources are the fastest growing energy source in the world and various projections indicate that these resources will have huge contribution in the future [14,15].…”

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