Indian Journal of Science and Technology
DOI: 10.17485/ijst/2019/v12i29/146970
Year: 2019, Volume: 12, Issue: 29, Pages: 1-7
Original Article
J. Thaarrini1*, R. Premsudha2 and M. Chris Sheba3
1Department of Civil Engineering, Sri Krishna College of Engineering andTechnology, Kuniamuthur, Coimbatore − 641008, Tamil Nadu, India; [email protected]
2Department of Civil Engineering, TKR, College of Engineering of Technology,Medbowli, Meerpet, Hyderabad − 500097, Telangana, India; [email protected]
3Department of Civil Engineering, Sri Ramakrishna Institute of Technology,Pachapalayam, Coimbatore – 641010, Tamil Nadu, India; [email protected]
*Author for correspondence
J. Thaarrini
1 Department of Civil Engineering, Sri Krishna College of Engineering andTechnology, Kuniamuthur, Coimbatore − 641008, Tamil Nadu, India; [email protected]
Objectives: The work is to recover the energy from food and vegetable waste with water hyacinth and cowdung. Methods: The present study focuses the lights to recover energy from organic waste and to adopt safe disposal and conserving natural resources. Laboratory scale batch digesters were set up to find the biogas production potential of Food waste and Vegetable waste with water hyacinth and cow dung. Food waste was collected from our TKR college mess similarly Vegetable waste was collected from the Hyderabad market and prepared for further analysis. Similarly water hyacinth was collected from a Meerpet lake in Hyderabad. Six digesters with varying Vegetable wastes and Food wastes were combined individually by increasing concentrations with fixed amount of water hyacinth and Cow dung by water displacement method. The effect of food waste and vegetable waste concentration on the biogas yield was investigated and the experiments were characterised before and after digestion. Findings: Modified Gompertz Equation (MGE) model was fitted to the experimental values and kinetic parameters such as maximum cumulative biogas potential Bmax (L/gVS), specific biogas production rate, Rb (L gVS-1d-1) and lag phase time, λ(d), were estimated. Experimental values were compared with MGE using MAT LAB. Applications/Improvements: From the experimental study observed that an aerobic degradation took place and the biogas produced was measured daily. Kinetic analysis of the biogas production was done and compared & conclusions were drawn.
Keywords: Anaerobic Digestion, Food Waste, Modified Gompertz Equation (MGE), Vegetable Waste Kinetic Modelling, Water Hyacinth
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