This book focuses on biogas production by anaerobic digestion, which is the most popular bioenergy technology of today. Using anaerobic digestion for the production of biogas is a sustainable approach that simultaneously also allows the treatment of organic waste. The energy contained in the substrate is released in the form of biogas, which can be employed as a renewable fuel in diverse industrial sectors.
Although biogas generation is considered an established process, it continues to evolve, e.g. by incorporating modifications and improvements to increase its efficiency and its downstream applications. The chapters of this book review the progress made related to feedstock, system configuration and operational conditions. It also addresses microbial pathways utilized, as well as storage, transportation and usage of biogas.
This book is an up-to-date resource for scientists and students working on improving biogas production.
Part 1: Trends in Biogas Production Technologies.
Chapter 1:
Technological routes for biogas production: Current status and future
perspectives.
Chapter 2: Prospects and challenges in Biogas Technology:
Indian Scenario.
Chapter 3: Anaerobic digestion technology for management of
organic wastes: Latin American context.
Chapter 4: Biogas technology for
animal manure management in USA: State of art, opportunities, challenges and
perspectives.
Chapter 5: Anaerobic digestion in Europe: Key to sustainable
waste management, challenges and perspectives.
Chapter 6: Advances and
challenges of anaerobic digestion of wastes and wastewaters from different
industrial sectors.
Chapter 7: Comparative analysis of biogas with renewable
fuels and energy: physio-chemical properties, and carbon footprints.- Part 2:
Improving biogas production: Progress, challenges and perspectives.
Chapter
8: Potential feedstock for sustainable biogas production, transportation and
supply chain analysis.
Chapter9: Potentials and challenges of micro and
macroalgae as feedstock for biogas production.
Chapter 10: The realm of
microorganisms in Biogas production: Microbial diversity, functional role,
community interactions and monitoring the status of biogas plants.
Chapter
11: Metabolic engineering: A tool to increase the methane yield and
efficiency of anaerobic digestion process.
Chapter 12: Scale-up operations
for biogas production: Analysis on critical factors governing large scale
operations .
Chapter 13: Biogas processing, storage and distribution,
transportation and value chain analysis.
Chapter 14: Potentials and
challenges of biogas upgradation as liquid biomethane.
Chapter 15: Nutrient
value of digestates in soil fertility and productivity.- Part 3: Economics of
Biogas Technology.
Chapter 16: Biogas commercialization: Commercial players,
key business drivers, potential market and fostering investment.- Chapter 17:
Biogas in circular bio-economy: Sustainable practice for rural farm waste
management & techno-economic analyses.
Chapter 18: Biogas technology in
Africa: An assessment of feedstock, barriers, socio-economic impact and the
way forward.
Chapter 19: Governmental policies to promote biogas production,
boosting role of biogas in economic growth of developing nations.
Dr. Nagamani Balagurusamy is Professor at the Faculty of Biological Sciences, Universidad Autonoma de Coahuila, Torreon, Mexico. Previously, he worked as Associate Professor at Tamil Nadu Agricultural University, Coimbatore, India. Over the last 30 years, his research interest has been in the biology of anaerobic digesters, with particular emphasis on the interactions between anaerobic bacteria and archaea. He teaches Biochemistry, Microbial Biochemistry, Biotechnology, Environmental Engineering, Microbial Physiology, Bioremediation and Microbial Molecular Ecology to undergraduate and postgraduate students of Biochemical Engineering Programs. He is recognized as Level 1 Member of the National Research Scientists System of Mexico by the National Council of Science and Technology of the Government of Mexico.
Dr. Anuj K. Chandel is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Biotechnology, Engineering School of Lorena, University of Sao Paulo (USP),Brazil. Dr. Chandels research interests are biofuels and biochemical production based on the biorefinery concept. As a frequently invited speaker at international conferences and forums he regularly lectures on technical and strategic aspects of biomass energy. He has published his research work in leading journals, and co-edited books on xylitol, sustainable degradation of lignocellulosic biomass, Brazilian and Indian biofuels development, sustainable sources of energy, and others. Additionally, he is a reviewer for numerous prominent journals, industrial projects of various funding agencies and a consultant for several biotechnology startups.
