Research and Markets: The Biogas Handbook: Science, Production And Applications

Research and Markets has announced the addition of Woodhead Publishing Ltd`s new book "The Biogas Handbook: Science, Production And Applications" to their offering.

With pressure increasing to utilise wastes and residues effectively and sustainably, the production of biogas represents one of the most important routes towards reaching national and international renewable energy targets. The biogas handbook: Science, production and applications provides a comprehensive and systematic guide to the development and deployment of biogas supply chains and technology.

Following a concise overview of biogas as an energy option, part one explores biomass resources and fundamental science and engineering of biogas production, including feedstock characterisation, storage and pre-treatment, and yield optimisation. Plant design, engineering, process optimisation and digestate utilisation are the focus of part two. Topics considered include the engineering and process control of biogas plants, methane emissions in biogas production, and biogas digestate quality, utilisation and land application. Finally, part three discusses international experience and best practice in biogas utilisation. Biogas cleaning and upgrading to biomethane, biomethane use as transport fuel and the generation of heat and power from biogas for stationery applications are all discussed. The book concludes with a review of market development and biomethane certification schemes.

With its distinguished editors and international team of expert contributors, The biogas handbook: Science, production and applications is a practical reference to biogas technology for process engineers, manufacturers, industrial chemists and biochemists, scientists, researchers and academics working in this field.

Key Features:

- provides a concise overview of biogas as an energy option

- explores biomass resources for production

- examines plant design and engineering and process optimisation

- looks at biogas utilisation, and examines international experience and best practice

Key Topics Covered:

PART 1 BIOMASS RESOURCES, FEEDSTOCK TREATMENT AND BIOGAS PRODUCTION

• Biomass resources for biogas production
• Analysis and characterisation of biogas feedstocks
• Storage and pre-treatment of substrates for biogas production
• Fundamental science and engineering of the anaerobic digestion process for biogas production
• Optimisation of biogas yields from anaerobic digestion by feedstock type
• Anaerobicdigestion as a key technology for biomass valorization: contribution to the energy balance of biofuel chains

PART 2 PLANT DESIGN, ENGINEERING, PROCESS OPTIMISATION AND DIGESTATE UTILISATION

• Design and engineering of biogas plants
• Energy flows in biogas plants: analysis and implications for plant design
• Process control in biogas plants
• Methane emissions in biogas production
• Biogas digestate quality and utilization
• Land application of digestate

PART 3 BIOGAS UTILISATION: INTERNATIONAL EXPERIENCE AND BEST PRACTICE

• Biogas cleaning
• Biogas up-grading to biomethane
• Biomethane feed-in into natural gas networks
• Generation of heat and power from biogas for stationery applications: boilers, gas engines and turbines, combined heat and power (CHP) plants and fuel cells
• Biomethane for transport applications
• Market development and certification schemes for biomethane

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Source: Woodhead Publishing Ltd