Journal
BIORESOURCE TECHNOLOGY
Volume 100, Issue 23, Pages 5783-5789Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.biortech.2009.06.013
Keywords
Anaerobic digestion; Batch reactor; Animal and vegetal substrates; Inoculum; Methane yield
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Different mixtures were digested in a single-stage, batch, mixed, laboratory scale mesophilic anaerobic digester at the Biomass Research Centre Laboratory (University of Perugia). The yield and the composition of biogas from the different substrates were evaluated and the cumulative curves were estimated. Two experimental campaigns were carried out, the first on three mixtures (chicken, pig and bovine manures), the second on animal and vegetal biomasses (chicken and cow manure, olive husk) with different inocula (rumen fluid and digested sludge). In the first campaign pig manure mixture showed the maximum biogas production (0.35 Nm(3)/kg) and energy content (1.35 kWh/kg VS): in the second one the differences in produced biogas from the different inocula were analyzed: olive husk with piggery manure anaerobically digested as inoculum showed the higher biogas (0.28 Nm(3)/kg VS) and methane yield (0.11 Nm(3)/kg VS), corresponding to an energetic content of 1.07 kWh/kg VS. All data obtained from the laboratory scale anaerobic digester are comparable to the values in literature for several biomass and in particular for olive husk, dairy manure and chicken manure. (C) 2009 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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