Bioenergy Generation from Different Types of Waste by Anaerobic Digestion
A special issue of Energies (ISSN 1996-1073). This special issue belongs to the section "A4: Bio-Energy".
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Special Issue Editors
Interests: environmental engineering; waste management; anaerobic digestion; bioenergy production; cell carriers; cell immobilization; wastewater treatment; food chemistry
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Interests: biogas; waste; anaerobic digestion; wastewater treatment; methane production; environment; water treatment; biodegradation
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
In view of the energy crisis and climate changes, the world is searching for sources of green energy to replace fossil fuels. Energy security, especially the supplying of renewable energy and reduction of CO2 emissions have become priorities in the energy policy. Thanks to biotechnologies based on anaerobic digestion (AD) it is possible to obtain biogas with high methane content, which can be used as an alternative source of energy. This is the main reason why this process has continued to interest scientists and energy companies for many years. In order to solve another civilisation problem, i.e. the production of large amounts of waste, various types of waste are often used as primary or additional biomass in the AD process. Anaerobic digestion is based not only on waste from agriculture, horticulture, forestry, food processing, and wood processing but also on municipal, packaging, medical, veterinary and chemical waste. The concept of zero liquid discharge (ZLD) is one of the methods to achieve sustainable development of bioenergy. The production of bioenergy from waste reduces lump waste generation and its dumping into land. This special issue focuses on recent advances in the conversion of waste to bioenergy, especially biogas and biohydrogen in the AD process. The number of articles on similar topics which are published each year shows the need to search for potential substrates, technological solutions and optimal conditions for the implementation of the AD process. In order to implement AD as a method of disposal of waste of various origin it is necessary to systematically broaden the knowledge about the physicochemical and biochemical nature of the process.
Dr. Agnieszka Pilarska
Prof. Dr. Krzysztof Pilarski
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- waste management
- waste composition
- zero waste discharge
- biomass
- biogas
- biomethane
- biohydrogen
- anaerobic digestion
- process stability
- process monitoring
- bioreactor configurations
- additives
- microorganisms
- organic loading rate
- process monitoring
- process efficiency