A review of the chemistry of anaerobic digestion: Methods of accelerating and optimizing process efficiency

A Anukam, A Mohammadi, M Naqvi, K Granström - Processes, 2019 - mdpi.com
The anaerobic digestion technology has been in existence for centuries and its underlying
theory established for decades. It is considered a useful technology for the generation of …

Anaerobic digestate as a low-cost nutrient source for sustainable microalgae cultivation: A way forward through waste valorization approach

CC Chong, YW Cheng, S Ishak, MK Lam… - Science of The Total …, 2022 - Elsevier
To suffice the escalating global energy demand, microalgae are deemed as high potential
surrogate feedstocks for liquid fuels. The major encumbrance for the commercialization of …

Fates of chemical elements in biomass during its pyrolysis

WJ Liu, WW Li, H Jiang, HQ Yu - Chemical Reviews, 2017 - ACS Publications
Biomass is increasingly perceived as a renewable resource rather than as an organic solid
waste today, as it can be converted to various chemicals, biofuels, and solid biochar using …

[HTML][HTML] Green conversion of municipal solid wastes into fuels and chemicals

L Matsakas, Q Gao, S Jansson, U Rova… - Electronic Journal of …, 2017 - Elsevier
Presently, the society is facing a serious challenge for the effective management of the
increasing amount of produced municipal solid wastes. The accumulated waste has caused …

[HTML][HTML] Theoretical methane production generated by the co-digestion of organic fraction municipal solid waste and biological sludge

A Nielfa, R Cano, M Fdz-Polanco - Biotechnology Reports, 2015 - Elsevier
The co-digestion of two problematic and available wastes, namely Organic Fraction
Municipal Solid Waste (OFMSW) and biological sludge, was carried out in this work …

The anaerobic digestion of solid organic waste

A Khalid, M Arshad, M Anjum, T Mahmood… - Waste management, 2011 - Elsevier
The accumulation of solid organic waste is thought to be reaching critical levels in almost all
regions of the world. These organic wastes require to be managed in a sustainable way to …

Characterizing the variability of food waste quality: A need for efficient valorisation through anaerobic digestion

H Fisgativa, A Tremier, P Dabert - Waste management, 2016 - Elsevier
In order to determine the variability of food waste (FW) characteristics and the influence of
these variable values on the anaerobic digestion (AD) process, FW characteristics from 70 …

Anaerobic digestion of solid organic substrates in batch mode: an overview relating to methane yields and experimental procedures

F Raposo, MA De la Rubia, V Fernández-Cegrí… - … and sustainable energy …, 2012 - Elsevier
Anaerobic digestion is considered a competitive source for the production of renewable
energy as far as efficiency and cost are concerned. To evaluate the anaerobic …

Reviewing the anaerobic digestion of food waste: From waste generation and anaerobic process to its perspectives

C Morales-Polo, MM Cledera-Castro… - Applied Sciences, 2018 - mdpi.com
Discharge of waste in general, and food waste, in particular, is considered one of the major
environmental problems today, as waste generation increases continuously, reaching …

A new algorithm to characterize biodegradability of biomass during anaerobic digestion: influence of lignin concentration on methane production potential

JM Triolo, SG Sommer, HB Møller, MR Weisbjerg… - Bioresource …, 2011 - Elsevier
We examined the influence of fibrous fractions of biomass on biochemical methane potential
(BMP) with the objective of developing an economical and easy-to-use statistical model to …