Table Of ContentBiomethane through
Resource Circularity
The Circular Economy in Sustainable Solid and Liquid Waste Management
Series Editor: Dr. Sadhan Kumar Ghosh,
Professor, Mechanical Engineering, & Chief Coordinator, Centre for Sustainable Development
and Resource Efficiency Management, Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India
Biomethane through Resource Circularity: Research, Technology, and Practices
Edited by Sadhan Kumar Ghosh, Michael Nelles, H.N. Chanakya, and Debendra Chandra
Baruah
The Circular Economy in Construction Industry
Sadhan Kumar Ghosh, Sannidhya Kumar Ghosh, Benu Gopal Mohapatra, and Ronald
Mersky
Effective Waste Management and Circular Economy: Legislative Framework and Strategies
Sadhan Kumar Ghosh, Sasmita Samanta, Harish Hirani, and Carlos RV Silva Filho
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Biomethane through Resource
Circularity
Research, Technology, and Practices
Edited by
Sadhan Kumar Ghosh
Professor, Mechanical Engineering & Chief Coordinator, Centre for Sustainable
Development and Resource Efficiency Management, Jadavpur University,
Kolkata, India
Michael Nelles
Professor, Director, Department Waste and Resource Management,
Rostock University & Scientific General Manager, DBFZ — the German Centre
for Biomass Research Leipzig, Germany
H. N. Chanakya
Chief Research Scientist, Centre for Sustainable Technologies (CST), IISc.,
Bangalore, India
Debendra Chandra Baruah
Professor, Department of Energy, Tezpur University, Tezpur, Assam, India
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Dedication
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psychology practitioners who are supporting students in this most stressful
situation. To the waste handlers, the workers handling the dead in crematories
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Dedicated to the millions who have been affected and are struggling to
combat the pandemic due to this unprecedented outbreak of COVID-19.
Wishing for the eradication of COVID-19 from around the world.
Contents
Introduction .......................................................................................................................................xi
Preface............................................................................................................................................xiii
Acknowledgments ............................................................................................................................xv
Editors ............................................................................................................................................xvii
List of Contributors .........................................................................................................................xix
SECTION I Biomethane: Energy, Society,
and Circularity Nexus ............................................1
Chapter 1 Changing Focus on Bioenergy through Resource Circulation: A Review for
India and Europe ..........................................................................................................3
Debendra Chandra Baruah, H. N. Chanakya, Sadhan Kumar Ghosh, and
Michael Nelles
Chapter 2 Kinetic Modelling of Biogas Production from Organic Fractions of Municipal
Solid Waste and Projection of Energy and Energy Potentials ...................................19
V. Mozhiarasi, P. M. Benish Rose, S. M. Elavaar Kuzhali,
S. Kanyapushpanjali, D. Weichgrebe, and S. V. Srinivasan
Chapter 3 Biomass Supply Chain for Anaerobic Methane Generation:
Issues and Concern .....................................................................................................33
Dipal Baruah, Moonmoon Hiloidhari, and Debendra Chandra Baruah
Chapter 4 Bioenergy in Germany – Status and Outlook ............................................................47
Michael Nelles, Romann Glowacki, Ingo Hartmann, Volker Lenz, Jan
Liebetrau, Franziska Müller-Langer, Satya Narra, and Daniela Thrän
Chapter 5 Feasibility Study of Commercialised Self-Circulating Biogas Generators:
A Circular Economy Approach ..................................................................................57
Varadha V. P. Bhuvana, B. I. Devanand, Nandhini S. Selva,
T. Thavasivamanikandan, and V. Kirubakaran
SECTION II Biomethane Research and Development ............. 73
Chapter 6 Improvement in Biogas Production by Direct Interspecies Electron Transfer
Technique: Current Aspects and Diverse Prospects ..................................................75
Ravi Bajaj, Kapil Garg, Sagarika Panigrahi, and Brajesh Kumar Dubey
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Chapter 7 Biogas Recovery from Poultry and Piggery Waste: A Review ..................................83
David O. Olukanni and Chukwuebuka N. Ojukwu
Chapter 8 Mini Review: Solid-State Stratified-Bed Reactor Design for
Leaf Litter Digestion ..................................................................................................97
Aastha Paliwal, Ashritha J., and H. N. Chanakya
Chapter 9 Anaerobic Co-Digestion of Drain Sludge with Fermentescibles Municipal
Waste of Sokodé (Togo)............................................................................................109
Nitale M’Balikine Krou, Gnon Baba, and Ogouvidé Akpaki
Chapter 10 Effect of Inoculum Concentration and Particle Size of the Substrate on
Anaerobic Digestion of Yard Waste .........................................................................119
Ravi Kumar D., H. N. Chanakya, Swati Bhatia, and Dasappa S.
Chapter 11 Mathematical Modelling of Aerobic Digestion in the Activated Sludge Process ....125
Alomoy Banerjee and S. Raghuraman
Chapter 12 Anaerobic Co-Digestion of Landfill Leachate and Sewage Sludge: Role of
Substrate Ratio .........................................................................................................133
N. Anand, Srinjoy Roy, and P. Sankar Ganesh
SECTION III Biomethane: Feedstock, Production,
and Application ................................................141
Chapter 13 Economic Aspects of Waste Valorisation with the Aid of Anaerobic Digestion
and Other Technologies ............................................................................................143
Sutripta Sarkar and Debaprasad Sarkar
Chapter 14 Biomass from Agricultural Wastes for Renewable Energy in the Philippines ........151
Aries O. Ativo and Lynlei L. Pintor
Chapter 15 Utilisation of Food Processing Waste for Energy Generation .................................157
Jyothilakshmi R., Sumangala Patil, Hemanth Kumar K. J.,
Sandhya Jayakumar, Sadhan Kumar Ghosh, and K. S. Badarinarayan
Chapter 16 A Study of the Processes, Parameters, and Optimisation of Anaerobic
Digestion for Food Waste .........................................................................................161
Jyothilakshmi R., Sumangala Patil, Hemanth Kumar K. J.,
Sadhan Kumar Ghosh, and Sandhya Jayakumar
Contents ix
Chapter 17 Assessment of Biogas Generation Potential of Mixed Fruits Solid Waste ..............177
David O. Olukanni, Gbemisola I. Megbope, and Oluwatosin J. Ogundare
Chapter 18 Agricultural Waste to Biogas Energy: Design and Simulation Using the
Anaerobic Digestion Model No. 1 ............................................................................189
Preseela Satpathy, Frank Uhlenhut, and Chinmay Pradhan
Chapter 19 A Review of Operating Parameters, Pretreatment Process, and
Digester Design Effect on Biogas Production in Anaerobic Digestion ....................197
Amit Kumar Sharma, Ravi K. Dwivedi, and Bharat Modhera
Chapter 20 Biogas Potential of Kitchen Waste at Visva-Bharati, Santiniketan .........................207
Aman Basu, Ankita Laha, Indranil Bhui, Anita Biswas, Krishanu Sarkar,
Shibani Chaudhury, and Srinivasan Balachandran
Index ..............................................................................................................................................211
