scholarly journals Association between Biogas Quality and Digester Temperature for Selected Animal Dung-Aided Water Hyacinth Digestion Mixes

2020 ◽  
Vol 24 (6) ◽  
pp. 955-959
Author(s):  
O.M. Ojo ◽  
J.O. Babatola

In this study, the association between biogas qulaity and digester temperature for selected animal dung-aided water hyacinth digestion mixes was  evaluated. Substrates utilized in this study are water hyacinth (WH), poultry manure (PM) and cow dung (CD) and pig dung (PD). Thirty-one (31) co-digestion mix ratios were used in this study. The temperature ranged from 28.6 to 32.2 0C for the PD-aided WH digestion, 28.2 to 31.4 0C for the CD-aided WH digestion and 28.2 to 31.8 0C for the PM-aided WH digestion. This shows that the digestion process occurred within the mesophilic  temperature range. The data obtained were analyzed using non-linear parameter estimation. The results revealed that the PM-aided WH mix produced more gas but with less methane content compared to the CDaided and PD-aided WH digestion mix. The results further revealed that the best quality of gas produced by the PD-aided WH digestion. The association between the temperature and gas quality was positive suggesting that an increase in temperature within the digestion leads to an increase in the quality of gas produced. Keywords: Biogas quality, temperature, co-digestion, animal dung, water hyacinth

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 ◽  
pp. 58-64
Author(s):  
Ochuko M. Ojo ◽  
Josiah O. Babatola

Water Hyancinth (WH) was co-digested with different mix ratios of poultry manure (PM), cow dung (CD) and pig dung (PD). A comparative analysis of the cumulative volume of gas produced from the different co-digestion mixes was carried out. The monitoring of the digestion process was done on a daily basis for a retention period of 40 days. The efficacy of the digestion process as well as the best mix ratio of water hyacinth to the different animal dungs was also evaluated in terms of the volume of gas produced. A rotameter with a capacity of 0.1-1L/Min equipped with a measuring tube was used for the gas flow measurements. From the results obtained the best mix of the PD-aided WH digestion is 3 WH:7 PD while CD - aided WH digestion is 2 WH:8 CD and PM-aided WH digestion is 2 WH: 8 PM. The study also revealed that the PM-aided WH mix produced more biogas compared to the CD-aided and PD-aided WH digestion mix.


2020 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-12
Author(s):  
O.A. Iroko ◽  
A.O. Bobadoye ◽  
B.O. Bobadoye

This study examine comparative studies on nutrients needs and uptake in K. senegalensis seedlings to evaluate effect of organic manure (Cow dung; 20g, 10g; Poultry manure: 20g, 10g; Water hyacinth 20g, 10g and control). The variables measured were plant height, collar diameter and leaf numbers. The experiment was laid out in a Completely Randomized Design (CRD), the data collected were subjected to Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) and Means separation using Least Significant Difference (LSD). The results showed that seedlings grown with cow dung of 20g produced the highest mean height (12.45cm), collar diameter (5.68mm) and leaf production (7). The best performance was observed in seedlings grown with cow dung at the rate of 20g. 20g of cow dung mixed with 2kg of forest top soil can therefore be used to raise K. senegalensis seedlings for good growth in the Nursery. Keywords: Nutrients, Khaya senegalensis, organic manure, nursery , water hyacinth


2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 139-144
Author(s):  
Gabriella Marsaulina ◽  
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Taufik Taufikurahman ◽  
Andira Rahmawati

Water hyacinth (Eichhornia crassipes) is a plant species commonly used for phytoremediation to reduce high chromium content in tannery liquid waste in Garut, West Java. Water hyacinth materials harvested from the phytoremediation can be used for the anaerobic digestion process to produce biogas and bio-slurry. This study aimed to determine the reduction of chromium content found in water hyacinths due to the anaerobic digestion process, and utilization of bio-slurry from the anaerobic digestion process as a biocomposite material. The anaerobic digestion process was carried out for 33 d using biodigesters and the composition of the biodigesters were varied into 100% dried water hyacinths and 80% water hyacinths with the addition of 20% cow dung. The bio-slurry from the anaerobic digestion process was then used for making biocomposites with 3 different compositions, i.e., 75 and 25%; 50 and 50%; and 25 and 75% of cement and bio-slurry, respectively. The average chromium content found in water hyacinths from the phytoremediation process without anaerobic digestion process was 41.964 mg/l. The results show a reduction in the amount of chromium after the anaerobic digestion process was found in each composition of bio-slurry, which were 15.979 mg/l (100% water hyacinth) and 14.861 mg/l (80% water hyacinth + 20% cow dung). Biodigester with a composition of 80% water hyacinth + 20% cow dung produced the highest average volume of biogas which was 0.424 l. The biocomposite of 75% cement and 25% bio-slurry had the highest compressive strength value of 30.598 MPa and water absorption capacity of 37.25%. It can be concluded that biocomposite with the composition of 75% cement and 25% water hyacinth bio-slurry is promising to be used as an alternative material for buildings.


2019 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 25
Author(s):  
Riswanto Riswanto ◽  
Sodikin Sodikin

Biogas techniques is a way to produce energy with the anaerobic process by utilizing organic ingredients, one of which can be derived from herbs. The quality of biogas production can be viewed by performing the measurement of absolute pressure of biogas. Absolute pressure is the atmospheric pressure coupled with the measured pressure.  The magnitude of the pressure will affect the quality of the flame produced biogas. This study, using the method of observation, and measurements. As for the data analysis techniques,. The findings focused to find the different of biogas production by measuring the change in absolute pressure of biogas. Measurements are done using a manometer. The results obtained show that the introduction by using cow dung retrieved changes pressure biogas occurred on day 3 with pressure 140.565 N/m2, the characteristics of the data graph illustrates the R2 = 0.677. Different results are indicated on the mixing water hyacinth with cow manure, biogas pressure changes happen on day 1 with the characteristic graph of a R2 = 0.976. This condition describes that the mixing of the water hyacinth and cow dung provides distinctions signifikant in accelerating the process of occurrence of biogas.


2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 224-230
Author(s):  
Mtamabari Simeon Torbira ◽  
Ebigenibo Genuine Saturday

A modified fixed dome digester with stirring mechanism has been designed and constructed and used for the anaerobic digestion of cow dung slurry at 5%-7% Total solid (TS) concentration within the mesophylic temperature range. The quality of biogas gas produced was between 54%-69% methane (CH4) content. The Carbon to Nitrogen ratio (C: N) varied between 35:1 - 45:1. Total biogas yield obtained over the detention period was about 261 L. The maximum and minimum temperatures recorded over the 95 days period was 32oC and 25 oC respectively. The volume of biogas yield, Vb (m3) was observed to increase with the percentage total solid, PTS (%). The details of the design and construction of the biogas digester plant and its cost are reported. The performance of the plant was very satisfactory. Investigation into the anaerobic digestion revealed that cow dung has great potentials for generation of biogas.


2019 ◽  
pp. 57-63
Author(s):  
Dada C. A. ◽  
Kayode J. ◽  
Arowosegbe S. ◽  
Olaniyi T. A

The impact of nutrient sources cannot be over emphasised in plant growth. Seedlings of Annona muricata were subjected to organic fertilizers, inorganic fertilizers and fertilizer-free treatmentsin this study. The organic fertilizers comprises of cow dung, poultry manure and water hyacinth, while NPK fertilizer was used as the inorganic manure and Top soil without fertilizer application was used as the control. The organic fertilizers were singly used and mixed at the rate of 100kg/ha and 200kg/ha while the inorganic fertilizer was used at the rate 100kg/ha and 200kg/ha. The parameters taken were plant height, stem girth, leaf area and leaf production. Results obtained showed that poultry manure produced the tallest plants (23.50cm) at 3months after transplanting though this was not significantly different from those of cow dung manure (23.00cm). NPK fertilizer produced the plant with highest leaf area (32.75cm) and stem girth (2.25cm) at 3 months after transplanting and was not significantly different from the organic fertilizers (Poultry manure 200g/ha, Cow dung 200g/ha, Water hyacinth 100g/ha and 200g/ha). NPK fertilizer also produced the highest number of leaves at the end of the three month assessment (31.00cm). All the growth parameters observed showed that the control experiment gave the least performance. The results obtained tend to suggest that the use of NPK fertilizer should be recommended for growing Annona muricata and improvement of the soil nutrients level.


2018 ◽  
Vol 154 ◽  
pp. 02001 ◽  
Author(s):  
Finda Sihta ◽  
Suyitno ◽  
Atmanto Heru Wibowo ◽  
Retno Tanding

The production process of indigofera plants yields 10% of blue natural dyes and wastes are 90%. The biomass wastes from the extraction of indigofera plants are classified as difficult to process in an Anaerobic Digester (AD) because of the large content of hemicellulose in the Indigofera stems. Therefore, the study reports the anaerobic digestion of Indigofera plant wastes co-digested with cow dung for enhancing the biogas quality. The digestion process was conducted in a vessel of 160 L with various weight ratios between Indigofera biomass and cow dung by 0%, 25%, 50%, 75%, and 100%. The results show that the AD reactor temperature kept above 29.5°C with a pH between 6-7 were the key factors for enhancing the biogas quality. The co-digestion between 50% indigofera wastes with 50% cow dung yielded biogas with a CH4 content of about 42% and H2S concentration below 40 ppm showing that the biogas has the potential to be further improved in quality and can be used to fuel the stove and power generation.


INFO-TEKNIK ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 137
Author(s):  
Rosita Dwityaningsih ◽  
Nurlinda Ayu Triwuri

The purposed of this research to study effect of adding cow dung and waterhyacinth to improve biogas production from fish waste. The method of thisresearch used experimental method at batch anaerob reactor and absortion carbonatom used NaOH solution. The result of this research analysis used describtionmethod. The observed of parameter included accumulation of biogas productionand also parameter at slurry incuded temperature and pH. Qualitative parameter istest of flame of biogas. The conclusion value of pH from this research betweencontrol reactor, A1 reactor (fishwaste: cow dung: water hyacinth= 2:9:3), A2reactor (fishwaste: cow dung: water hyacinth= 1:4:2), A3 reactor (fishwaste: cowdung: water hyacinth= 1:3:3) is 5 to 10. Temperature range in 28 oC to 31oC. Theresult indicated the different composition of subtrat slurry from fishwaste, cowdung and water hyacinth in scale 2:9:3 (A1 reactor) produced biogas accumulationand metana the most than the others reactor.


2016 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 109-118
Author(s):  
Amina Khatun ◽  
Hasina Sultana ◽  
A B M Jamiul Islam ◽  
Md Sultan Uddin Bhuiya ◽  
Md Abu Saleque

A field experiment was conducted at the Bangladesh Rice Research Institute (BRRI) experimental farm during boro season of 2010-11 to determine the effect of nitrogen from organic and chemical sources on rice seed yield and quality. Six treatments- (i) N-control, ii) Optimum dose of nitrogen (164 kg N ha-1) from urea, iii) 50% N from urea and 50% N from CD (cow dung), iv) 50% N from urea and 50% N from PM (poultry manure), v) 100% N from CD and vi) 100% N from PM were compared. The experiment was conducted in a randomized complete block design with four replications. Two boro varieties – BRRI dhan28 and BRRI dhan29 were used as test crops. The urea + PM treatment gave similar seed yields to that of urea in both the varieties. The PM treatment gave similar seed yield to that of urea + PM in BRRI dhan28, but BRRI dhan29 gave significantly lower seed yield in PM than the urea + PM. Sole cowdung or poultry manure application produced significantly lower seed yield than urea + PM treatment and sole urea application. The application of N from cowdung and poultry manure had no effect on rice seed quality as compared to that obtained with urea.The Agriculturists 2015; 13(1) 109-118


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