The Efficiency of the Biogas Plant Operation Depending on the Substrate Used

Janina Piekutin, Monika Puchlik, Michał Haczykowski and Katarzyna Dyczewska
Additional contact information
Janina Piekutin: Department of Technology in Environmental Engineering, Faculty of Construction and Environmental Sciences, Bialystok University of Technology, 45A Wiejska Str., 15-351 Bialystok, Poland
Monika Puchlik: Department of Forest Environment, Faculty of Construction and Environmental Sciences, Bialystok University of Technology, 45A Wiejska Str., 15-351 Bialystok, Poland
Michał Haczykowski: White Moose, 13A K. Szałasa Str., 03-180 Warsaw, Poland
Katarzyna Dyczewska: Department of Forest Environment, Faculty of Construction and Environmental Sciences, Bialystok University of Technology, 45A Wiejska Str., 15-351 Bialystok, Poland

Energies, 2021, vol. 14, issue 11, 1-12

Abstract: The study aimed to assess the most efficient solution of raw material management in selected biogas plants into the concept of circular economy and evaluate the most efficient solution of raw material management in selected biogas plants due to the quality and quantity of the feed and the final product obtained, which is biogas, as well at the closed circulation (circular economy). The study evaluated two agricultural biogas plants on a real scale and one at the sewage treatment plant (in real scale) in northeastern Poland. A year-long study showed that in technical terms, the best work efficiency is achieved by agricultural biogas plants processing: silage, manure, apple pomace, potato pulp (biogas plant No. 1), followed by biogas plant No. 3 processing chicken manure, decoction, cattle manure, poultry slaughterhouse waste (sewage sludge, flotate, feathers), and finally, the lowest efficiency biogas plant was No. 2, the sewage treatment plant, which stabilized sewage sludge in the methane fermentation process. Moreover, based on the results, it was found that agricultural biogas gives the best efficiency in energy production from 1 ton of feed.

Keywords: biogas plant; substrate; agricultural biogas plants; energy production (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q Q0 Q4 Q40 Q41 Q42 Q43 Q47 Q48 Q49 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (9)

Downloads: (external link)
https://www.mdpi.com/1996-1073/14/11/3157/pdf (application/pdf)
https://www.mdpi.com/1996-1073/14/11/3157/ (text/html)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:gam:jeners:v:14:y:2021:i:11:p:3157-:d:564288

Access Statistics for this article

Energies is currently edited by Ms. Agatha Cao

More articles in Energies from MDPI
Bibliographic data for series maintained by MDPI Indexing Manager ().