Production of Biogas from Dairy Manure and Frying Oil in a Continuous Flow Digestion Equipped with an Automatic Control System

Document Type : Original Research

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Department of Mechanical Engineering of Biosystems, Isfahan University of Technology, Isfahan, Iran

Abstract

The increase in global energy demand in the face of the depletion of fossil fuel reserves and on the other hand the harmful environmental effects and global warming caused by the consumption of fossil fuels is one of the problems ahead. Therefore, renewable energy sources such as biogas should be developed. In this study, an automatic control system was developed to control the material's temperature and pressure inside a continuous plug flow digester with an approximate volume of 3600 liters. After installing the control system, in four separate periods, the production of biogas and methane for four different types of substrate including a combination of cow manure and water (slurry) with a ratio of 1: 1(treatment 1), cow manure slurry and 8% used frying oil (treatment 2), co-digestion of manure slurry 10% used frying oil (treatment 3), co-digestion of manure slurry and 12% used frying oil (treatment 4). At each feeding and discharging, a step used the substrate and the outgoing material to determine the pH level, total solids (TS), volatile solids (VS), ammonia, and organic loading (COD). Also, the amount of gas generated at each digester discharge was recorded from a gas flow meter. Data were analyzed in SAS statistical software. The significant difference of each parameter was evaluated with LSD mean comparison. The results showed that the oil increase had a great influence on the production of biogas and increase the methane content. In addition, the mean comparison of LSD showed a significant difference between the average volumes of biogas produced for four different types of substrate.

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Biomechanism and Bioenergy Research
Volume 1, Issue 2
December 2022
Pages 26-31

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  • Receive Date: 31 October 2022
  • Revise Date: 18 November 2022
  • Accept Date: 30 December 2022

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