Anaerobic digestion of banana winery effluent for biogas production
| dc.contributor.author | Bakili, Sophia | |
| dc.contributor.author | Gessesse, Amare | |
| dc.contributor.author | Mtei, Kelvin | |
| dc.contributor.author | Njau, Karoli | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2023-09-13T10:05:47Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2023-09-13T10:05:47Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2014-09-30 | |
| dc.description | SDG 7: Affordable and Clean Energy, SDG 12 : Responsible Consumption and Production, SDG 13 : Climate Action | en_US |
| dc.description.abstract | he efficiency of banana winery effluent (BWE) in biogas production through improving fermentation process was investigated in this study. The study was conducted in a batch system under mesophilic temperature of 35oC achieved by using controlled thermostat waterbath. Two sets of experiments (labeled as experiment 1 and experiment 2) with five reactors each, were performed in the laboratory. For experiment 1, reactor A was treated as a control with no addition of urea while 1g,2g,3g and 4g of urea were added in reactors B,C,D and E respectively. For experiment 2, different amount of sucrose, that is 0.18g, 0.27g, 0.36g and 0.44g were added in the reactors B, C, D and E correspondingly, and reactor A without sucrose addition was used as the control .Results for experiment 1 revealed that reactor A produced largest volume of biogas (1.93L) followed by reactor B with least amount of urea where 1.37L of biogas was generated. Other reactors produced smaller volume of biogas during the study period. For experiment 2 results indicated large volume of biogas (2.72L) was produced in reactor C with 0.27g of sucrose followed by reactor D (2.71L) with 0.36g sucrose. The biogas produced contained 68.9% - 74.6% methane (CH4). This study concluded that addition of nitrogen source does not increase biogas production from Banana winery effluent while addition of carbon source is important as a source of energy for enhancing C: N ratio for process stability and biogas production. | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | 10.11648/j.ijepp.20140205.14 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://dspace.nm-aist.ac.tz/handle/20.500.12479/1996 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
| dc.publisher | International Journal of Environmental Protection and Policy | en_US |
| dc.subject | Anaerobic Digestion | en_US |
| dc.subject | Banana Winery Effluent | en_US |
| dc.subject | Biogas | en_US |
| dc.title | Anaerobic digestion of banana winery effluent for biogas production | en_US |
| dc.type | Article | en_US |