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Methane potential from municipal biowaste: Insights from six communities in Maharashtra, India

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Title Methane potential from municipal biowaste: Insights from six communities in Maharashtra, India
 
Creator Breitenmoser, Lena
Dhar, Hiya
Gross, Thomas
Bakre, Milan
Huesch, Ragini
Hugi, Christoph
Wintgens, Thomas
Kumar, Rakesh
Kumar, Sunil
 
Subject Solid Waste Treatment & Disposal
 
Description Anaerobic digestion (AD) of biowaste can generate biogas with methane (CH4) as energy source and contribute
to sustainable municipal solid waste management in India. Characteristic municipal biowastes sampled seasonally
from household, fruit and vegetable market and agricultural waste collection points in villages, towns
and cities in Maharashtra were analysed to assess the potential as substrate for AD. The mean biochemical
methane potential (BMP, at 37 °C) across seasons and community sizes was between 200–260, 175–240 and
101–286 NLCH4 kgvs
−1 for household, market and agricultural biowaste, respectively. CH4 yields were comparable
in villages, towns and cities. Seasonal variations in CH4 yields were observed for market and agricultural
biowaste with highest values during pre-monsoon season. Results underpin that municipal biowaste is a suitable
substrate for AD in India. However, low purity of available biowaste resulted in lower CH4 yields compared to
recent studies using source-segregated biowaste.
 
Publisher Elsevier
 
Date 2018
 
Type Article
PeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Identifier http://neeri.csircentral.net/1155/1/1-s2.0-S0960852418300889-main.pdf
Breitenmoser, Lena and Dhar, Hiya and Gross, Thomas and Bakre, Milan and Huesch, Ragini and Hugi, Christoph and Wintgens, Thomas and Kumar, Rakesh and Kumar, Sunil (2018) Methane potential from municipal biowaste: Insights from six communities in Maharashtra, India. Bioresource Technology, 254. pp. 224-230. ISSN 0960-8524
 
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