Biogas production from brown grease using a pilot-scale high-rate anaerobic digester

• Published in: Renewable energy Vol. 68; pp. 304 - 313
• Main Authors: Zhang, Pengchong, Lin, Che-Jen, Liu, James, Pongprueksa, Pruek, Evers, Simon A., Hart, Peter
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford Elsevier Ltd 01.08.2014; Elsevier
• Subjects: anaerobic digesters; Anaerobic digestion; Applied sciences; Biogas; Brown grease; chemical oxygen demand; Digesters; Energy; energy recovery; Exact sciences and technology; food waste; Foods; Greases; hydrogen sulfide; landfills; leachates; Liquid wastes; Methane; methane production; Natural energy; pulp and paper mills; Renewable energy; risk; slurries; Wastes; Biogas; Renewable energy; Brown grease; Anaerobic digestion

Food wastes are typically disposed of in landfills for convenience and economic reasons. However, landfilling food wastes increases the organic content of leachate and the risk of soil contamination. A sound alternative for managing food wastes is anaerobic digestion, which reduces organic pollution...