The biogas handbook science, production and applications

With pressure increasing to utilise wastes and residues effectively and sustainably, the production of biogas represents one of the most important routes towards reaching national and international renewable energy targets. The biogas handbook: Science, production and applications provides a compreh...

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Other Authors: Wellinger, A. (Editor), Murphy, Jerry (Editor), Baxter, David (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford Woodhead Publishing Limited 2013, 2013
Series:Woodhead Publishing Series in Energy
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Collection: Elsevier ScienceDirect eBooks - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
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Summary:With pressure increasing to utilise wastes and residues effectively and sustainably, the production of biogas represents one of the most important routes towards reaching national and international renewable energy targets. The biogas handbook: Science, production and applications provides a comprehensive and systematic guide to the development and deployment of biogas supply chains and technology. Following a concise overview of biogas as an energy option, part one explores biomass resources and fundamental science and engineering of biogas production, including feedstock characterisation, storage and pre-treatment, and yield optimisation. Plant design, engineering, process optimisation and digestate utilisation are the focus of part two. Topics considered include the engineering and process control of biogas plants, methane emissions in biogas production, and biogas digestate quality, utilisation and land application. Finally, part three discusses international experience and best practice in biogas utilisation. Biogas cleaning and upgrading to biomethane, biomethane use as transport fuel and the generation of heat and power from biogas for stationery applications are all discussed. The book concludes with a review of market development and biomethane certification schemes. With its distinguished editors and international team of expert contributors, The biogas handbook: Science, production and applications is a practical reference to biogas technology for process engineers, manufacturers, industrial chemists and biochemists, scientists, researchers and academics working in this field. Provides a concise overview of biogas as an energy optionExplores biomass resources for productionExamines plant design and engineering and process optimisation
Item Description:"IEA Bioenergy."
Physical Description:online resource (xxx, 476 pages illustrations)
ISBN:9780857097415
9780857094988
0857097415
085709498X
ISSN:2044-9364