Publication detail

Challenges for energy efficiency improvement anaerobic digestion

Fan, Y.V. Lee, C.T. Klemeš, J.J.

Original Title

Challenges for energy efficiency improvement anaerobic digestion

Type

conference paper

Language

English

Original Abstract

One of the major environmental issues and research challenges have been to reduce emissions and effluents without compromising the production performance. The renewable energy recovery from waste to energy is less emitting than using fossil fuels. It can compete with the other renewables if properly generated, transferred, transmitted and used. Anaerobic digestion (AD) is a potential production process to improve the security of energy supply. It also serves as a promising alternative to waste disposal. The feasibility of AD technologies for power generation has been proven in some of the technologically and agriculturally advanced countries however world-wide implementation still needs some development. Presented work focuses to overview the challenges and practices for energy efficiency improvement of AD that have been reported recently, mainly between the years of 2015-2016. The assessment suggests the consideration and/or attentions for substrate, pre-treatment and operation mode of digesters for a better risk minimisation and feasibility maximisation. The characteristics and supply of the substrate were suggested as the initial susceptible factor for the energy efficiency of AD. The systematic review serves as an overview of the AD development and an establishment of technically feasible technologies for further study and extended implementation.

Keywords

Anaerobic digestion; Efficiency; Effluents; Energy security; Fossil fuels; Risk assessment; Waste disposal; Energy efficiency improvements; Environmental issues; Potential production; Production performance; Renewable energies; Research challenges; Risk minimisation; Systematic Review; Energy efficiency;

Authors

Fan, Y.V.; Lee, C.T.; Klemeš, J.J.

Released

1. 10. 2017

Publisher

Italian Association of Chemical Engineering - AIDIC

ISBN

978-88-95608-51-8

Book

Chemical Engineering Transactions

ISBN

2283-9216

Periodical

Chemical Engineering Transactions

Number

61

State

Republic of Italy

Pages from

205

Pages to

210

Pages count

6

BibTex

@inproceedings{BUT146020,
  author="Fan, Y.V. and Lee, C.T. and Klemeš, J.J.",
  title="Challenges for energy efficiency improvement anaerobic digestion",
  booktitle="Chemical Engineering Transactions",
  year="2017",
  journal="Chemical Engineering Transactions",
  number="61",
  pages="205--210",
  publisher="Italian Association of Chemical Engineering - AIDIC",
  doi="10.3303/CET1761032",
  isbn="978-88-95608-51-8",
  issn="2283-9216"
}