Production of Bio Gas from Vegetable and Flowers Wastes Using Anaerobic Digestion

Abstract:

The present research paper describes about the anaerobic digestion of vegetable (Banana, Cauliflower, potato, and sweet potato) and flower wastes (Rose, sambangi, gulmohar, marigold, golden shower tree, silk tree mimosa) in a 1L capacity of anaerobic digestor using pig manure as an inoculums. The digester was operated in the ratio of 1:1 of substrate to inoculums at RT. The substrate concentrations are varied such as 5%, 7%, and 10% was used and amount of gas produced was analysed using digital pressure gauge. The results obtained showed that, marigold flower had given higher yield of biogas than vegetable wastes and the digestion period was less. The average biogas production potential of withered flowers was observed as 14.36 g/kg in 5 days, where in case of vegetable wastes it was 10.0234 g/kg in 6 days. The study showed that flowers which are available in abundant in India is thrown away within a day, in the environment. These feedstocks are good feed stock for the production of biogas. The generation of biogas from flowers and vegetable waste upholds the concept of waste to wealth in enhancing sustainability of development. The future research work is mainly focused on the characterization of the main component present in the bio-gas using sophisticated instruments.

• Periodical: Applied Mechanics and Materials (Volume 787)
• Pages: 803-808
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMM.787.803
• Online since: August 2015
• Authors: A. Deepanraj, S. Vijayalakshmi, J. Ranjitha
• Keywords: Anaerobic Digestion, Biogas, Flower, Inoculums, Substrate, Vegetable Waste

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