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Biogas potential of banana plant residues - Do mechanical and enzymatic pretreatments influence the biogas yield and kinetics?

  • Do you know that for each banana bunch the complete plant must be cut as well? Only in Brazil 440 million trees are planted annually. With an average weight of 30 kg per banana plant you can estimate about 13,5 million tons of banana residues per year. Although there exist some projects to use these residues for the production of valuable products (e.g fibers for textile and paper production) mostDo you know that for each banana bunch the complete plant must be cut as well? Only in Brazil 440 million trees are planted annually. With an average weight of 30 kg per banana plant you can estimate about 13,5 million tons of banana residues per year. Although there exist some projects to use these residues for the production of valuable products (e.g fibers for textile and paper production) most of this organic waste material is unused and left for composting on the farmland. The basic idea of this project is to evaluate this organic waste material for converting it to a renewable and CO2 neutral fuel. Therefore, the different parts of the banana plant (heart, leaves and pseudo stem) were analyzed regarding their biogas potential (specific biogas yield and biogas production kinetics). In further studies the effect of mechanical and enzymatic pretreatments of the different parts of the plants was investigated. This examination could then be the basis for an energetic usage of this organic residue. The biogas batch experiments were performed according to the german guideline VDI 4630 in 2-L-Batch reactors at 37°C. As biogas substrates, the heart, the leaves and the pseudo stem of the banana plant residue with and without enzymatic/mechanical pretreatment were used. The different parts of the banana plants result in a specific biogas production yield in the range of 260-470 norm liters per kg organic dry mass. To determine the influence of the mechanical pretreatment (particle size 1-15 mm) on the biogas production kinetics, the kinetic constants were defined and calculated. The reduction of the particle size leads to an improved biogas production kinetics. Therefore experiments will demonstrate, if the results from the batch experiments can be converted in the continuous fed biogas reactor. The experiments of the enzymatic pretreatment are still under investigation.show moreshow less

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Document Type:Conference Proceeding
Conference Type:Konferenz-Poster
Zitierlink: https://opus.hs-offenburg.de/4503
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Title (English):Biogas potential of banana plant residues - Do mechanical and enzymatic pretreatments influence the biogas yield and kinetics?
Conference:10. ProcessNet-Jahrestagung und 34. DECHEMA-Jahrestagung der Biotechnologen, 21. - 24. September 2020, Web-Konferenz
Author:Andreas WilkeStaff MemberGND, Anna SandhaasStaff MemberORCiDGND, Camila Wolfram
Year of Publication:2020
Creating Corporation:Hochschule Offenburg
First Page:1262
Last Page:1263
Article Number:P5.16
Parent Title (German):Chemie Ingenieur Technik
Volume:92
Issue:9
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1002/cite.202055381
Language:English
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Institutes:Fakultät Maschinenbau und Verfahrenstechnik (M+V)
Institutes:Bibliografie
DDC classes:500 Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik
600 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften
Tag:Banana residues; Biogas Potential
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