Anaerobic Digestion and Biogas Production as a Renewable Energy Source with Increasing Potential
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 May 2021) | Viewed by 3576
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Anaerobic digestion of organic material and, hence, biogas production was recognized as a renewable energy source already in the middle of the last century. While there was an accelerating development of household scale biogas plants, the development of industrial-scale applications was inhibited and gathered pace in the beginning of this century. Together with the development of industrial-scale biogas plants, research in anaerobic digestion has increased tremendously. Today, research is abundant in all fields of anaerobic digestion, biogas application, and even new fields of additional product generation all over the world. This research has opened up new fields for the production of biogas and co-products, for the application of biogas as a renewable source, and for the widening of materials suitable as feedstock for anaerobic digestion.
This Special Issue will gather recent original research in all relevant fields of anaerobic digestion and biogas production with a focus on feedstock, optimizing the anaerobic digestion process, treatment of digestate, and new co-products. A special focus will be given to the transition from laboratory-scale to pilot plant application.
Suitable topics include but are not limited to the following:
- Anaerobic digestion of agricultural wastes and residues;
- From lab-scale experiments, pilot plant and practice-scale application;
- New co-products of anaerobic digestion, e.g., succinic acid;
- Digestate treatment to increase fertilizer value and handling of it;
- Feedstock treatment to enhance digestibility and handling of feedstock;
- THG balance of biogas production and application.
Dr. Matthias Ploechl
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- anaerobic digestion of agricultural wastes and residues
- lab-scale experiments
- pilot plant and practice-scale application
- co-products of anaerobic digestion
- digestate treatment
- feedstock treatment
- THG balance
