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Biochar as Additive in Biogas-Production from Bio-Waste

  • Previous publications about biochar in anaerobic digestion show encouraging results with regard to increased biogas yields. This work investigates such effects in a solid-state fermentation of bio-waste. Unlike in previous trials, the influence of biochar is tested with a setup that simulates an industrial-scale biogas plant. Both the biogas and the methane yield increased around 5% with a biocharPrevious publications about biochar in anaerobic digestion show encouraging results with regard to increased biogas yields. This work investigates such effects in a solid-state fermentation of bio-waste. Unlike in previous trials, the influence of biochar is tested with a setup that simulates an industrial-scale biogas plant. Both the biogas and the methane yield increased around 5% with a biochar addition of 5%-based on organic dry matter biochar to bio-waste. An addition of 10% increased the yield by around 3%. While scaling effects prohibit a simple transfer of the results to industrial-scale plants, and although the certainty of the results is reduced by the heterogeneity of the bio-waste, further research in this direction seems promising.show moreshow less

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Document Type:Article
Author: Daniel Meyer-KohlstockORCiD, Thomas Haupt, Erik Heldt, Nils Heldt, Prof. Dr.-Ing. Eckhard KraftGND
DOI (Cite-Link):https://doi.org/10.3390/en9040247Cite-Link
URN (Cite-Link):https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:gbv:wim2-20170406-31119Cite-Link
Parent Title (English):ENERGIES
Language:English
Date of Publication (online):2017/04/06
Year of first Publication:2016
Release Date:2017/04/06
Publishing Institution:Bauhaus-Universität Weimar
Institutes and partner institutions:Fakultät Bauingenieurwesen / Professur Biotechnologie in der Ressourcenwirtschaft
GND Keyword:Festphasen-Fermentation; Biogasanlage; Organischer Abfall
Dewey Decimal Classification:500 Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik / 540 Chemie
600 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften / 620 Ingenieurwissenschaften
BKL-Classification:58 Chemische Technik, Umwelttechnik, verschiedene Techno- / 58.30 Biotechnologie
58 Chemische Technik, Umwelttechnik, verschiedene Techno- / 58.53 Abfallwirtschaft
Licence (German):License Logo Creative Commons 4.0 - Namensnennung (CC BY 4.0)