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Assessment of Sustainable Biogas Production from Co-Digestion of Jatropha De-Oiled Cake and Cattle Dung Using Floating Drum Type Digester under Psychrophilic and Mesophilic Conditions
Department of Chemistry, Applied Sciences Cluster and Centre for Alternate Energy Research (CAER), School of Engineering, University of Petroleum and Energy Studies, Dehradun 248007, India.
Department of Farm Machinery & Power, Orissa University of Agriculture Technology (OUAT), Bhubaneswar 751003, India.
LRGP, CNRS-Université de Lorraine, 54000 Nancy, France; Department of Electrical Engineering, School of Engineering, University of Petroleum and Energy Studies, Dehradun 248007, India.
Luleå University of Technology, Department of Civil, Environmental and Natural Resources Engineering, Chemical Engineering.ORCID iD: 0000-0002-5285-1136
2022 (English)In: Clean Technologies, ISSN 2571-8797, Vol. 4, no 2, p. 529-541Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

Biodiesel is an emerging alternative fuel that is generally made from edible and non-edible oilseed crops. Jatropha curcus has a high potential for producing biodiesel, which yields 25–35% oil along with 75–65% solid byproduct, generally called a de-oiled cake. The present manuscript deals with the co-digestion of Jatropha de-oiled cake along with cattle dung (1:1 ratio) for biogas production in a floating-type biogas digester. The experimental study was carried out in a modified KVIC biogas plant of 6 cubic meter capacity for 60 days’ retention time under psychrophilic and mesophilic temperature conditions. During all the experiments, the total solid content of the slurry was maintained fixed at 10–12% by mixing 10 kg Jatropha de-oiled cake and 10 kg cattle dung with 80 kg water. The experimental results showed that the average specific biogas production of Jatropha de-oiled cake and cattle dung slurry was observed to be 0.216 m3/kg TS, 0.252 m3/kg VS and 0.287 m3/kg TS, 0.335 m3/kg VS, respectively, under the aforementioned conditions. Moreover, the biogas methane concentration was observed to be 62.33% to 69.16% under mesophilic temperature conditions compared to the psychrophilic temperature conditions, 65.21% to 69.15%, respectively. Furthermore, the average total volatile solids mass removal efficiency of feeding material in the abovementioned process was 7% higher under mesophilic temperature conditions than psychrophilic temperature conditions. Additionally, the results indicated that a total 588.8 kg of input volatile solids produced a total of 7306.56 MJ/m3 and 5177.88 MJ/m3 energy in 60 days under psychrophilic and mesophilic temperature conditions. On the basis of the results, it is concluded that Jatropha de-oiled cake may be a superior solution for improving biogas quality and composition as well as a value-added product, i.e., organic manure.

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MDPI, 2022. Vol. 4, no 2, p. 529-541
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Jatropha, de-oiled cake, biogas, anaerobic digestion, methane
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Biochemistry Molecular Biology
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Biochemical Process Engineering
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URN: urn:nbn:se:ltu:diva-92098DOI: 10.3390/cleantechnol4020032ISI: 000816468500001Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85131374741OAI: oai:DiVA.org:ltu-92098DiVA, id: diva2:1681722
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Validerad;2022;Nivå 2;2022-07-07 (sofila);

Funder: Uttarakhand State Council for Science and Technology (grant no. UCS & T/R&D/ENG-08/08-09/6428)

Available from: 2022-07-07 Created: 2022-07-07 Last updated: 2025-02-20Bibliographically approved

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