Publication detail

Biogas from anaerobic digestion as a renewable source of energy

HOUDKOVÁ, L. BORÁŇ, J. PĚČEK, J. ŠUMPELA, P.

Original Title

Biogas from anaerobic digestion as a renewable source of energy

Type

presentation

Language

English

Original Abstract

Biogas is produced during anaerobic digestion of organic matter. Anaerobic digestion is a process well known from nature, where biogas is produced spontaneously. However, an industrial technology of anaerobic digestion has been developed as a part of waste water treatment process at the beginning of the 20th century. Nowadays, technology of anaerobic digestion is used not only for sewage sludge treatment, but also biogas systems for organic wastes or biomass treatment are built. In this paper, a process of anaerobic digestion is mentioned. A laboratory fermentation unit, built at the Institute of Process and Environmental Engineering (UPEI VUT), is described. The laboratory fermentation unit is used for digestion of new types of substrate and process optimization. Finally, the possibilities of biogas utilization are discussed.

Keywords

biogas; biogas plant; digestion

Authors

HOUDKOVÁ, L.; BORÁŇ, J.; PĚČEK, J.; ŠUMPELA, P.

Released

4. 6. 2007

Publisher

Faculty of Mechanical Engineering and Naval Architecture, Zagreb

Location

Zagreb

ISBN

978-953-6313-87-7

Book

CD Proceedings

Edition

1

Edition number

1

Pages count

9

BibTex

@misc{BUT63882,
  author="Lucie {Houdková} and Jaroslav {Boráň} and Jan {Pěček} and Pavel {Šumpela}",
  title="Biogas from anaerobic digestion as a renewable source of energy",
  booktitle="CD Proceedings",
  year="2007",
  series="1",
  edition="1",
  pages="9",
  publisher="Faculty of Mechanical Engineering and Naval Architecture, Zagreb",
  address="Zagreb",
  isbn="978-953-6313-87-7",
  note="presentation"
}