Innovative Biogas Strategies: Anaerobic Co-Digestion of Livestock Waste

Year : 2025 | Volume : 12 | Issue : 01 | Page : 40 45
    By

    Sunidhi Rajput,

  1. Student, Electronics & Communication, Student, Sir Chhotu Ram Institute of Engineering & Technology, C.C.S University Campus, Uttar Pradesh, India

Abstract

The goal of the study is to determine whether anaerobic co-digestion of cow dung can be used to produce biogas and whether adding sodium and calcium alginate directly to natural lagoon sediment can reduce sulphide concentrations. It was observed that one minute of focus Sodium and calcium alginate were added at the start of the anaerobic digestion cycle, which indicates a propensity to lower the system’s hydrogen sulfide concentration and raise methane concentration. The alginates, which functioned as chelating ligands, increased methane generation and decreased sulfide concentration. For anaerobic codigestion, this study suggests using soaking liquor that uses cow dung (fleshing) in a 2:1 ratio. The hydrogen sulphide (H2S) concentration of fleshing to cow dung ratio without sodium alginate is shown in the results for the following concentrations: 1:0.5 H2S concentration (ppm), 1:2 H2S concentration (ppm), 1:0 H2S concentration (ppm), and 1:1 H2S concentration (ppm) against time (days) and digestion flow from combined liquor. The H2S concentration initially moved inconsistently and continued to rise and fall. It was found that biogas with a 45.5% v/v methane concentration could be produced using a 1:2 ratio of fleshing to cow manure. Compared to adding calcium alginate beads, adding sodium alginate can result in larger biogas volume and the greatest methane concentrations in a shorter retention period. In general, the mass transfer phenomenon confined the calcium alginate beads. The study further demonstrates that the methane concentration achieved with sodium alginate application was 57.1% v/v < 60% v/v. Mass transfer constraint was the reason of this since calcium alginate beads have a smaller surface area in the event that a reaction is required. Nevertheless, compared to digesting the substrates without alginates, the methane content was still greater.

Keywords: Investigation, cow dung, anaerobic digestion, biodigester, diluent, inoculant, retention period, and substrates

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Sunidhi Rajput. Innovative Biogas Strategies: Anaerobic Co-Digestion of Livestock Waste. Emerging Trends in Chemical Engineering. 2025; 12(01):40-45.
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Volume 12
Issue 01
Received 24/12/2024
Accepted 03/01/2025
Published 10/01/2025
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