The article Biomass in biogas production: pretreatment and codigestion published | Faculty of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the Gdańsk University of Technology

The article discusses issues related to energy recovery through the integrated processing of waste biomass in the process of anaerobic digestion. Biogas can be produced from agricultural waste, organic fraction of municipal waste or industrial waste, or from the so-called locally available sustainable biomass. However, in many cases, the efficiency of methane production in conventional fermentation systems is still not profitable. The article summarizes the latest knowledge on the various strategies used to optimize and increase the efficiency of methane fermentation as well as to overcome the current barriers in biogas production. Particular attention was paid to methods improving the biodegradability of organic matter and increasing the potential of methane process. The meta-analysis of the available literature data involved mainly the codigestion and pre-treatment (disintegration) of single / mixed substrates, techniques that are currently gaining more and more interest.

This article was written as part of the following projects: (1) "Development of substrate preparation technology used in methane co-fermentation with disintegration methods "(DEAMETAN) financed by the Smart Growth Operational Programme (POIR.04.01.02-00-0022 / 17 of 2017-12-28) and (2) "Eco-innovative technology of low-temperature disintegration increasing the technological and energy efficiency of the sewage sludge treatment process" financed by the Provincial Fund for Environmental Protection and Water Management (WFOŚ / D / 201/6/2018 of 2018-01-19).

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